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SUMMARY:
Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity (NOAH) mobilizes communities to help motivated individuals form networks of care called "Arks", which provide the following services to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): nutritious meals; educational activities including HIV prevention messages; regular home visits; assistance in birth registration and accessing government social security grants; psychosocial support and training in the establishment of food gardens. Through effective implementation of the NOAH model, with continued emphasis on sustainability and capacity building NOAH plans to capacitate communities' OVC programs (Arks) to become self-governing and to eventually graduate into independent local CBOs.
Major emphasis areas for are community mobilization/participation. Minor emphasis areas are quality assurance and supportive supervision and training.
The target populations for NOAH activities are OVC, and their caregivers, community and religious leaders, volunteers, CBOs, FBOs and NGOs.
BACKGROUND:
NOAH was established in 2000, and has received PEPFAR funding since 2004 in support of OVC. With PEPFAR support, NOAH has registered over 13000 children and provided over 8000 children with direct, comprehensive care throughout Gauteng, one community in the North West, and KwaZulu-Natal. NOAH is currently active in 82 communities nationally, of which 42 are supported by PEPFAR.
In the interests of gender equality, NOAH actively monitors the number of girls and boys receiving services and wherever discrepancies are noted, NOAH makes every effort to addresses them immediately. In addition, NOAH volunteers and staff identify sick children and caregivers and provides referrals to the nearest hospital or clinic for HIV counseling and testing and ART treatment. Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are actively encouraged with companies such as Investec and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) which provide material support in the form of school uniforms and/or food. With FY 2907 funding, NOAH will implement and expand the NOAH model, including the training of committees, volunteers and resource centre staff, and the operational costs of resource centers and NOAH staff.
ACTIVITY 1: Community Mobilization
NOAH focuses on community mobilization and participation to develop community networks, or Arks, to support HIV and AIDS affected families and their OVC. Mobilization occurs through an interactive process which allows communities to self-identify and self-evaluate themselves to determine whether the NOAH model will work for them. Subsequently, through the establishment and training of NOAH committees (which target all major stakeholders in the community: private sector, community, religious and local government leaders) and a group of volunteers, OVC are identified and provided with services. The committee oversees the activities of the volunteers and is involved in
fundraising and building relationships with local government offices and surrounding schools. In many Arks the committee has successfully secured material and monetary donations from local businesses, in other Arks schools have donated classrooms, resources and teacher-time. Often the Arks are located on school grounds. All Arks are encouraged to build relationships with the local Department of Social Development (DoSD). With FY2007 funding, NOAH will continue to support community mobilization in existing NOAH sites and mobilize additional communities in three provinces.
ACTIVITY 2: Human Capacity Development
NOAH training builds volunteers and committee members' skills to identify OVC, register them and conduct home visits to monitor their progress and link them to appropriate government social services (e.g. Department of Home Affairs for issuing of birth certificates). The training provided for volunteers includes Bereavement Counseling; technical training in how to access social welfare benefits for children; Financial Management and leadership training for Committee members as well as Nutritional counseling, ECD (Early Childhood Development) and training from the National Association of Child Care Workers (a PEPFAR partner) for staff members at resource centers. NOAH will continue to provide psychosocial support to OVC through training volunteers in Play Therapy and counseling techniques. Food security and nutritional support of OVC and volunteers is achieved through permaculture training and the subsequent establishment and maintenance of vegetable gardens. NOAH will continue to implement a pilot project aimed at improving the economic coping ability of caregivers and volunteers through a partnership with Heifer (an NGO which supports income generation through livestock farming), a non-PEPFAR funded initiative. If these projects succeed in improving economic conditions for volunteers we will roll out the program to all NOAH Arks.
Quality Assurance and supportive supervision is delivered through monthly meetings with NOAH staff in each region. This allows NOAH Ark Managers and community leaders to share successes and challenges and come up with innovative solutions to solve the problems specific to their communities. M&E systems at community level are strengthened through ongoing training and data quality is improved through immediate verification of all numbers reported.
ACTIVITY 3: Resource Centers
In some cases, through community, school and other donor-support, NOAH establishes, staffs and supports resource centers, satellite offices and satellite feeding schemes. NOAH Resource centers, apart from being safe havens where children can interact with each other and with adults in a supportive environment, also provide daily nutritious meals, access to educational support, computer rooms and libraries. Wherever possible the NOAH Resource Centres are situated within school grounds with the support of the School Governing Body. Parents, volunteers, children and teachers are actively involved in the maintenance and day to day activities of the centre. PEPFAR supports the day-to-day costs of the resource centres but does not fund any construction of new Arks.
ACTIVITY 4: Partnership with Government
Relationships with the South African Government (SAG) have been developed at the local,
provincial and national levels. NOAH partners with the Department of Social Development (DoSD) and Education (DoE), to capacitate communities to access government funds and assistance. Local government representatives are active members of Ark committees. Close relationships with local social workers are fostered and encouraged. Seven Noah centers are currently funded by the Department of Social Development with further funding provisionally allocated to more Arks. NOAH has partnered with the DoE in KwaZulu-Natal to provide long term sustainable support by integrating the Ark model into schools. NOAH advocates for stipends for volunteers through the Department's Expanded Public Works Program (EPWP) which aims to advance rural communities both socially and economically by involving them in government-run programs.
NOAH activities contribute to supporting the PEPFAR goal of providing care and support to 10 million individuals affected by HIV and AIDS by increasing access to quality, comprehensive care to OVCs.
