Masibambisane (MCDC)
DETAILS
Identity
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Full legal name
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Mukhanyo Community Development Centre
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Acronym (where applicable):
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MCDC t/a Masibambisane
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Legal status:
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Association incorporated under Section 21
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Company Registration Number
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2003/009302/08
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Non-Profit Number
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030 – 072 - NPO
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Description
Title of the project: MASIBAMBISANE
Location of the project: WIDER KWAMHLANGA AREA – THEMBISILE DISCTRICT, NKANGALA REGION, MPUMALANGA
Summary: (Please Note: A more comprehensive illustrated profile of the organisation is available below) The aim of the project is to help the former KwaNdebele community fight the problems of Orphans and Vulnerable children, AIDS and POVERTY that are devastating their community.
The terminally ill in the community are suffering tremendously. They do not have food, do not have transport to clinics, often there is no-one to care for them.
Patients are not assisted adequately at the local clinics and hospitals and often die very painful and undignified deaths at home. Wounds are not cleaned and become septic. There is no transport to take patients in this condition to hospital and the hospital would only keep them for a day or so and then discharge them anyway.
Many children are attempting to care for their dying parents, washing them and trying to find food to feed them. Children in poverty and those who are orphans also suffer. Unsafe housing is a serious concern.
Main Activities: CURRENTLY our main activities are:
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Patients
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Orphans
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Home-based care:
· Identifying people living with HIV/AIDS
· Training caregivers on site
· Counselling patients and family
· AIDS Education
· Bathing
· Cleaning sores and treating infections
· Identifying illnesses and providing basic medication
· Assisting with medical and other needs i.e. adult nappies, gauze for cleaning sores etc.
· Taking the patients to the clinic / hospital in desperate situations
· Assisting with food parcels where needed
· Assisting with water and electricity in desperate cases
· Assisting with funeral arrangements in selected cases
· Loving and encouraging the patient and the family
· Assisting with the arranging of the will and guardians for the children likely to be orphaned if the patient dies.
· Biblical teaching and discipleship
Step down facility:
Medical resources are made available so that home-based care workers can assist their patients in the following ways:
· Bring their critical patients to see a medical practitioner specialising in the HI Virus to assist with secondary infections and pain control medication. The doctor will be available one day a week.
· 24-hour care for 6 critical patients where the caregiver and the home-based care worker can no longer cope.
· A Nursing sister employed to assist and visit patients with home-based care workers and care for the patients at the hospice.
· Nurses practicing in the community on 24-hour call.
· Basic medication will be provided
· Nutritional needs of patients to be provided for.
ARV Rollout: (20 people):
· Pre/Post Counselling
· Home visits to ensure that medication are taken
· Food Security
· Support Groups
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Food parcel project:
· Identifying orphans and vulnerable children in the community.
· Establishing the needs of these children.
· Providing food parcels
· Assisting with electricity and water
· Assisting with school clothes and school fees where needed
· Assiting caregivers to obtain the necessary documents to apply for grants
Foster mother project:
· Training caregivers
· Idenfying foster mothers
· Idenfitying children
· Monitoring the home-situations of the foster families and assisting where possible with any physical/counselling needs
· Making sure the medical and nutritional needs of the children are met
· Running support groups for the caregivers
· Running support groups for the children
Day Care (Drop-In) Centre project:
· Two day care are already running successfully. One in the Vezubuhle Village and the other in Tweefontein B2 (Phumula)
· The following assistance is provided to orphan children at the centre:
1. Breakfast and Lunch for school-going orphans
2. Day-care for children younger than 6.
3. Assistance with homework
4. Psycho-social support
5. Bible Study / Discipleship
6. Team building and games
7. Music & Arts
8. Library
9. Vegetable Gardening Skills
10. Computer Skills Training
11. Medical assistance
12. Support groups for the caregivers
13. Income generation projects for the caregivers
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Income Generation
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Computer Training:
· A course in basic computer literacy has been offered successfully to 20 students of the Mukhanyo Theological College as well as 80 people from the community.
· The course contents include:
Word-Processing Spreadsheets
Databases Web browsing programs
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Vegetable Garden Training:
· A successful vegetable garden project is underway and fits perfectly into this Centre as the people of KwaNdebele are mostly unemployed and their basic nutritional needs are not met on a daily basis.
· The vegetable gardening assists in preventing poverty, malnutrition and unemployment.
· A specific method of gardening called Eco Circle Gardening is taught to the community. This is a water-saving method as many villages have no running water.
Commercial Vegetable Garden:
· Tomato planting in shadenet and tunne
· Other vegetables in open field
· Selling of vegetables
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Objectives
Developmental Objective:
By 2009 the wider KwaMhlanga areas home-based care workers are professional, skilled and equipped and unacceptable levels of suffering of Orphans & Vulnerable Children (OVC’s), People Living with AIDS (PLWA) & People Living in Poverty (PLIP) identified have been improved by 50%.
Immediate Objectives:
1. Ensured food security and clothing for 80% of OVC’s identified
2. Increased access to quality palliative/home-based care for PLWA and their families by 50%.
3. 50% Improvement of access to water & sanitation and safe housing of families in our program.
4. Increased income of 20% for families
Justification
Needs and constraints (challenges) in the area of project implementation.
The main problems identified in the wider KwaMhlanga Community are:
1. Many orphans and vulnerable children
2. Tremendous suffering of people living with HIV/AIDS
3. Stigmatization of HIV/AIDS
4. Non-compliancy of TB/ARV medications
5. Hardly any medical assistance for children living with HIV/AIDS
6. Too few social workers and no vehicles
7. Foster grants take up to 2 years to be approved
8. Caregivers and orphans have nothing to eat
9. Lack of basic facilities ie water, electricity, housing, roads
10. Bottleneck for approving foster grants at court
11. Lack of medication in clinics / no doctors at the clinics
12. Lack of medical personnel with HIV/AIDS expertise – especially in diagnosing secondary infections.
13. 70% unemployment = poverty
14. Corruption
15. Cultural beliefs (AIDS is a curse not a disease, cure by sleeping with a virgin etc.)
16. Rape and child abuse
17. Children not attending school
The target group and the reasons for the selection of the target group(s).
Poverty in the wider KwaMhlanga area is vast. From our experience PLWA are suffering and there are thousands of OVC’s receiving no grants or care in this area. There are not many other NGO’s (who have resources and skills) assisting in the wider KwaMhlanga area.
Target group = the wider KwaMhlanga area (KwaMhlanga & Thembisile Municipality)
The number of direct and indirect beneficiaries (to the project) :
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Beneficiaries
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2005
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Per Annum (Next 2 years)
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People Living with AIDS (PLWA) and their families
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500
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1 000
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Orphans & Vulnerable Children (OVC’s) and their caregivers
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1 000
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2 000
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TOTAL
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1 500
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3 000
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The activities will benefit the target group in various ways (see below).
The quality of life of the beneficiaries is increased in the following ways:
1. Food security and clothing secured for OVC’s
2. Improved emotional wellbeing of OVC’s by the provision of psycho social support
3. Improved health of OVC’s
4. Improved protection of OVC’s
5. Improved educational levels of OVC’s
6. Increased number of facilities / services available to OVC’s and PLWA
7. Improvement of PLWA in food security, medical assistance as well as psycho-social support.
8. Improved HIV/AIDS prevention practices by OVC’s and PLWA
9. Improved access to water & sanitation and safe housing
10. Increased economic empowerment as income generation projects are implemented
Methodology
(a)Methods of implementation
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OVC’s
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Patients
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Day Care Centres – provide a venue in a specific village where OVC’s from that village can come for meals, help with homework, psycho-social support, career planning etc. It also encourages communication between caregivers and OVC’s by providing support group and income generation projects for the caregivers.
Food Parcels – provide food security while social services are processing grants. Help is given with obtaining the necessary document i.e. ID Books, Birth certificates etc.
Foster mothers – provide a mother for OVC’s that have no extended family to care for them. Assistance includes food security, help with homework, psycho-social support, career planning etc. It also encourages communication between foster mothers and OVC’s by providing support group and income generation projects for the caregivers. There is also a support group for the foster children.
Place of safety – According to social services there are no places of safety in the wider KwaMhlanga area. A home that can receive 20 children will be established providing food security, help with homework, psycho-social support, career planning etc.
Job training/income generation projects for caregivers - Caregivers are trained on vegetable gardening, beading, computers etc depending on where their interest lies.
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Home-based Care – Caring for the physical, medical, psycho-social needs of PLWA ensuring food security
Step Down Facility – 24 hour for critical PLWA where the caregiver can no longer cope, where children are caring for a parent or no care is given. Providing food security, medical and psycho-social support to PLWA and their families.
ARV Rollout – Provding ARV’s for 20 patients and focusing on compliancy support, support groups, psycho-social support and food security.
Job Training/Income Generation – Training provided on computers, vegetable gardening, building (job opportunities given to builders). Planning full scale entrepreneurship centre next year. Planning a Ndebele tourism village to promote self sustainability.
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Contact Details:
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Physical address:
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Plot 1 KwaMhlanga
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Postal address:
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PO Box 594
KwaMhlanga
1022
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Contact person:
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Melanie Prinsloo
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Telephone number
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013 947 2179/81
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Fax number
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013 947 2179/81
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E-mail address:
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melanie@mcdc.org.za
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Website:
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