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Years of mechanism: 2007 2008
SUMMARY:
Sekhukhune Educare Project (SEP), a Limpopo-based non-governmental organization (NGO) provides psychosocial, educational and nutritional support to OVC and facilitates increased access to social security grants and other social services. SEP identifies and trains community members as child care volunteers, building their capacity to provide direct care and support to OVC. The primary emphasis areas for these activities are community mobilization and participation, training, and the development of network and linkages with local hospitals, schools and Child Community Forums (CCFs). Target populations include orphans and vulnerable children, caregivers, HIV and AIDS-affected families, and SA-based volunteers.
BACKGROUND:
SEP works in Limpopo, one of the poorest provinces in South Africa with an HIV prevalence rate of 21.5 percent. The Sekhukhune district where SEP operates has high levels of unemployment, high teenage pregnancy rates and a low high school graduation rate.
SEP works closely with Child Care Forums (CCFs), government departments, schools and the local municipalities to raise awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on children their families and encourages community participation to find their own solutions for OVC who need care. CCFs are community-based structures focusing on the needs of OVC. The role of the CCF is to ensure the identification of OVC, to be aware of initiatives involving child care and support, to create awareness of OVC issues, to assess OVC needs, to liaise with other community-driven initiatives focused on children and to perform advocacy for OVC in the community. CCFs are a vital component for sustainability of OVC programs and community involvement in ensuring that the needs of OVC are addressed.
SEP partners with the Local AIDS Council and encourages local key players to actively participate and support OVC in the Limpopo province. With PEPFAR funding through the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, SEP has delivered care and support services to over 1,500 OVC in the past two years. SEP used to be a sub-partner under the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund program which ended in FY 2006. SEP has a cadre of 70 trained caregivers providing services to OVC in the Sekhukhune district.
ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:
ACTIVITY 1: OVC Support
With FY 2007 PEPFAR funding, SEP will continue to provide basic and intensive care and support services for OVC including individual needs assessments for each OVC, psychosocial and nutritional counseling, homework assistance, play group therapy at the resource centers, and training. During home visits, SEP child care volunteers will conduct OVC needs assessment with the children. Based on the results of the assessment, SEP child care volunteers will provide counseling and guidance on nutrition, hygiene and appropriate child protection guidance. OVC support, referrals, and household and family
support will be provided by the child care volunteer when they identify a household with an ill parent. SEP child care volunteers will also provide homework assistance and support to ensure that OVC stay in school. SEP child care volunteers will continue to provide support to obtain legal documentation such as birth certificates and death certificates to assist OVC to access government social security grants. For OVC who cannot afford school fees and uniforms, SEP child care volunteers will assist with school fee exemption applications and will ensure that OVC have the necessary school uniforms, school shoes and stationery. SEP has a partnership with SCORE Supermarkets, to provide food vouchers for OVC who need emergency food assistance.
One day workshops will be held in villages to assist OVC households with budgeting skills to provide OVC households with the skills needed to utilize their social security income to meet long- and short-term needs of OVC. OVC households are also provided with training to establish and cultivate food gardens to improve the nutritional content of the meals for OVC and their families.
SEP will provide training and will act as the secretariat for the CCFs and the local municipality in monitoring and reporting on OVC issues in the community.
ACTIVITY 2: Human Capacity Development
SEP will provide training to its child care volunteers on counseling, needs assessment, referrals, child rights, child protection and the special needs of the girl and boy child. Child care volunteers are also trained as home-based care providers. In FY 2007, PEPFAR funds will be used to provide the Government's 49 days of training for home-based care (HBC) which is the South African Government standard HBC training program. These trainings are conducted by the Department of Social Development (DoSD) which has a tailor-made Home-Based Care (HBC) module. Training is also provided to SEP volunteers by another PEPFAR partner, the Hospice and Palliative Care Association. This training covers the topics of child care, child rights, and other useful modules that relate to palliative care.
SEP will provide HIV prevention messages to all primary schools in its district. The South African Police Service also conducts gender sensitivity training for SEP child care volunteers.
ACTIVITY 3: HBC for OVC
HBC is provided for OVC who are ill and the affected household will be assisted in managing the child's illness. SEP will train home-based caregivers to provide these services. Households with OVC who are sick are visited once per week and more often if necessary. For OVC and the families that are terminally ill, visits are done on a daily basis. In order to sustain HBC for OVC, strong linkages have been established with the local hospitals and clinics. OVC are referred to SEP from the hospitals and vice versa.
ACTIVITY 4: Psychosocial Support
SEP child care volunteers will identify and provide OVC with psychosocial support and these children will receive advanced psychosocial support and follow-up. The SEP psychosocial support program will address coping skills, self-esteem issues, memory work, family trees, and spirituality. SEP will also establish child support groups which will provide amongst other things, healthy and appropriate recreation activities for OVC. This will be done in partnership with community groups, churches and schools. Safe spaces will be identified for these groups to meet on a biweekly basis.
SEP will use community theatre techniques to increase the resilience and confidence of children. Children who have participated in the theatre activities have had an opportunity to act out or dramatize their experiences, challenges, frustrations and angers and it also has provided OVC with an opportunity to search for solutions to the challenges they face. The plays focus on gender issues and provide an opportunity to sensitize the community and the children to gender-related problems and solutions. In FY 2007, PEPFAR funds will be used to facilitate theatre camps and expose children to visual art and dance. For those children who live too far from the Ikageng Dishaba Theatre, SEP partners with these select primary and secondary schools to arrange theatre activities at the local school. During these theatre activities, participation of the child is encouraged and children are given the opportunity to lead activities.
The Sekuhukhune Educare Project OVC activities will contribute to the PEPFAR goal of providing care and support to 10 million HIV-affected individuals, including OVC.
