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The Home-Based Care programmes take care of 350 HIV/AIDS affected children in Westbury and Soweto providing families with balanced cooked meals every day. The meals are cooked at the Langlaagte Campus and transported daily to the children's homes. Social workers are stationed within reach of the children's homes or shacks and assist them with ID applications, access to ARV treatment, social grant applications, counseling and enrichment programmes whilst childcare workers keep a watchful eye on the children in the programmes.
How does it make a difference?
- As the longest running community service programme more success stories can be reported.
- Over 229 Children have been discharged from the programme, either because of re-location to family elsewhere, or because the successful application for grants improved their situation sufficiently for the family to function independently. In some cases, older siblings were helped to obtain gainful employment.
- Many children have been placed in foster care.
- Host parents are continuously being secured for families.
- A structure was erected, furnished and fenced for the Ncaphayi family.
- The title deed for their property was secured for the Nomngenge family.
- About 20 youth received skills training and were subsequently placed in jobs.
- Two girls were trained in entrepreneurial skills at Vista University.
- Children continue to benefit from afternoon classes, and remedial teaching.
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