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| COMMUNITY CARE PROJECT TEAM/ MEMBERS |
Wednesday 22 July 2015
Tuesday 21 July 2015
Community Care Project
Company profile
Footprints
Mission
Seeing every
individual as having physical, emotional and spiritual needs, the Community
Care Project seeks to provide community and family based Interventions of
Training; Holistic Care; and tools for empowerment and management in HIV/AIDS
and associated development needs.
A future that demands
our help
Our
children and youth are most at risk with most not being able to enjoy the
nurturing environment of parents to look after them. According the Lucy Holborn 2011 ‘First steps
to healing the South African Family’ (South African Institute Race Relations)
of the 9.1 million double orphans in Sub Saharan Africa 60% had lost at least
one parent to HIV/Aids in 2005. In South
Africa in 2007 the United Nation Children's fund (UNICEF) indicated that some
2,500,000 children had lost one of both parents due to all causes with at least
being HIV related. By 2015 the South
African Research Council estimates that 5,700,000 children would have lost one
or both parents to HIV and or Aids. The
research concludes that although the HIV pandemic has stabilized and new
infection declining the number of orphans will continue to grow or at least
remain high for years. Mentoring,
teaching and helping to grow our children and youth will be a priority. ‘Coaching’ a fatherless generation to be free
of HIV, making informed life choices and building back into family and
community is critical.
What we can do to help the situation reflecting on what we have done before
We
have worked with families, children and communities infected and affected by
HIV for over a decade and our flexibility and ability to adapt to change and
meet has been key to our success in assisting families and individuals. We rely on community development principles
of empowering and up-skilling whilst also influencing change at community
level. We have strong links with local
and provincial Government that has afforded us opportunity to develop our home
to home based HIV Counseling and Testing and our work into High School
delivering Life Orientation to Grade 8 & 9 allowing us opportunity to
identify those orphans and vulnerable children most at risk
Working through Schools, Churches and
community structure we aim to
empower local leadership to strategically plan for HIV related programmes to
support and empower the community they serve.
Orphaned and Vulnerable children are identified through schools with
support structures and personnel identified through local community churches to
do follow up. Those needing to access Education, HIV counseling and testing,
grants, ID documents, Household Economic Strengthening activities are
supported. Through these process vulnerable
children, youth and adults are identified as well as those who are HIV+ or who
test HIV+. Working with families,
individuals and communities is imperative in supporting sustainable HIV infected
and affected families.
School based work and follow up
Community Care Project uses the School as
an environment that allows an opportunity to facilitate Education Prevention as
well as identifying those children orphaned or made vulnerable to HIV and Aids.
Education Prevention is a key component of our work and we see HIV Counseling and testing as an integral aspect of this work. Through community
development principles we empower families and individuals to be involved in
economic strengthening activities and have active roles in dealing with the
health and emotional needs of their families. Activities include:
- Prevention Education in small groups facilitating a minimum of ten hours contact time.
- 8 session school based small group Bereavement Counselling for bereaved learners
- After schools Tuition programme concentrating on English language
- School based motivation for male medical circumcision coordinated through our local hospitals and clinic.
- HIV Counselling and Testing motivation in Schools
- HIV Counselling and Testing in School ( we stopped in August 2010 when the Minister for Basic Education stopped all schools based testing awaiting national guidelines)
- Home based HIV Counselling and Testing
- Community follow up and referral for general health screening for those who test HIV+
- Community based support for HIV+ clients in accessing CD4 screening, and ART training where applicable
- Household Economic Strengthening (HES) by following orphaned and vulnerable children into their homes and inviting caregivers for training. Those who attend and prepare their gardens are further supported with Seedlings
- Partnering with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and motivate our learner’s in preparation for DHA mobile unit to come and take details for ID documents.
- Partner with University KZN School of Agriculture in doing Clinical Nutritional Assessment (CNA) with the crèches we work with and some High Schools
Community Care Project
is committed to working with individuals, families and communities infected and
affected through HIV and Aids. We have a
proven record of excellence and accountability and are proud to be involved in
envisioning and supporting those children and families most at risk and
vulnerable to the HIV, stigma, discrimination and a lack of hope. If you require any more information please
feel free to contact us.
For more information, kindly visit our website. Link attached bellow.
http://www.communitycareproject.co.za/
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