Steps for Saartjie is the Saartjie Baartman entrepreneurs fundraising partnership with Blocktober. Every day of October 2025 we walk to the Blockhouse. Join us.
Please click on "donate" to find out how to donate.
Blocktober is a humble but determined Cape Town-based movement of people against GBV, started in 2020.
You could also join us to run, ride or to swim in October as an act of slow-burn solidarity
with survivors of GBV. In Cape Town the destination for many of these activities is the King’s Blockhouse on the slopes of Table Mountain.
Wherever your are, you could walk, run, ride or swim locally, in solidarity. If you want to join the challenge, you could do ascents equivalent to those above (300m
ascent) or swims (31 minutes or 31 laps). Over past Octobers the
Blocktober founder cyclists rode over 20km daily for 31 days, and climbing more than 2x the height of Everest.
Saartjie Baartman Centre
The Saartjie Baartman Centre (SBC) for Women and Children, located in Manenberg Cape Town since 1999, manages a 24-hour crisis response programme, residential shelter / housing for abused women and children and various other programmes. Read more ...
Participate and be informed
- Join walks any Oct day and complete the Walking Roster (the more people, the safer)
- Visit the Saartjie Baartman Centre website.
- Subscribe to the Steps for Saartjie, October Walkers’ Blog.
- What is Blocktober?
- Join the Blocktober Whatsapp Group.
- Record your Blocktober activities on Strava.
The Hard Truth
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