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Words: Lungisa Mnqwazi and Alicia English
Source: www.saferschools.co.za
Chauncey’s Epic Anti-Bullying Club gives a voice to survivors of bullying. Founder Beverley Davids shares how the club is honouring the memory of her late son Chauncey, who was bullied at school.
Chauncey Davids initiated the anti-bullying club in 2013 after being severely bullied at primary school in 2012. Sadly, he never got to see the impact of his organisation on the lives of thousands of children, all of them also victims of bullying.
Chauncey died in May 2014, just before his 15th birthday, when an unsupervised science experiment (unrelated to bullying) went horribly wrong at his Westridge home in Mitchell’s Plain. Later that year, Beverley Davids registered the anti-bullying club as a non-profit organisation in memory of her teenage son.