In Episode 2, host Dan Vo and GiveOut Grant-making Officer Claire Tunnacliffe visit Pretoria to speak with Steve Letsike, Director of Access Chapter 2, to find out about how her organisation is providing essential support to the LGBTQI community in South Africa.

Steve tells us about how the values of fair play she learnt as a young soccer player shapes how she thinks about teamwork today in the fight for equality, how Access Chapter 2 is doing vital work in challenging conversion therapy, as well as her thoughts on the organisation's extraordinary work during this crisis.

Plus Steve Wardlaw, sponsor of the Emerald 50 Fund with GiveOut drops by to talk about the Fund and his relationship with Access Chapter 2.

About Steve Letsike

Steve Letsike is a  well known South African activist, not only within the LGBTI sector but also on issues of feminism, human rights and social justice. She is the Founding Director of Access Chapter 2, a human rights organisation with a specific focus on LGBTI populations and issues of gender equity.

About GiveOut

GiveOut is an award-winning charity growing giving to support the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights.

GiveOut enables individuals and businesses to give in one place to support LGBTQI activism worldwide. We pool these donations to provide grants to LGBTQI organisations around the world.

About our Grant Partner

Access Chapter 2 (AC2) works to protect and promote the human rights of LGBTQI people, women and girls in South Africa.

The organisation seeks to uphold South Africa's bill of rights, found in Chapter 2 of the country's Constitution, which guarantees civil, political and socio-economic rights for all. AC2's vision and mission is built from a women's and LGBTI centred approach, and seeks to ensure civil society sector's substantive participation in civil, political and socio-economic rights as enshrined in the bill of rights.

Producers: Claire Tunnacliffe and Lee Dibben
Editor: Samuel Gunn
Host: Dan Vo