| Neither
words nor statistics can adequately capture the human tragedy of children
grieving for dying or dead parents stigmatized by society through association
with HIV/AIDS, plunged into economic crisis and insecurity by their parents
death, and struggling without services or support systems in impoverished
communities (UNICEF 1999,8).
In response to the
deepening crisis of orphan and vulnerable children in our target area,
Tapologo in collaboration with Heartbeat, Neobirth Crisis Centre and
the Tsholofelo Community College are developing a model for the care
of orphaned and vulnerable children by collaborating efforts in the
Bojanala District (Rustenburg Local Municipality [RLM]) to efficiently
and effectively deal with the problem in a holistic approach.
This project is
aiming at providing a community based framework and capacity to allow
these self same communities to deal with the OVC situation prevalent
in their communities. The model is similar to that of our Outreach Programme
which has proved successful.
The
elements of this programme are briefly: |