2015 SADC GENDER PROTOCOL SUMMIT AND AWARDSSexual and Reproductive Health, HIV and AIDSThis award recognises NGOs and CBOs that have done the most to build effective coalitions and networks for the implementation of the SADC Protocol on Gender and development; holding governments accountable; conducting advocacy workshops at the grassroots level, as well as growing the women’s movement in SADC.

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Title HIV & AIDSPresenter Name Surname

NGOAKANA GALANEWho you represent Organisation Designation

MPHATLALATSANE HCBC PROJECT MANAGERSex tick Male Female

YESCountry SOUTH AFRICANEmail NONE

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Cell phone 072 747 0753

Quotable quotes*Provide one quote from the organisation, for example the head of the organisation, that sums up what this Network has achieved. Please remember name, surname and designation.

MISSION

The organization is committed towards provisions of comprehensive integrated.

Affordable Equitable Acceptable Effective Care to the Community And focuses on development of human potential in partnership either

relevant stakeholders.

VISION Caring for our communities.

Synopsis *What coalition has been built, what has this achieved and why it has been effective. 300 words.

The organization started in July 2000, at Maraba Clinic to develop a home based care. We started a home base care with 24 woman and 1 man .We formed home base care in a rural area seen that there is high rate of death and most people are dying of HIV/AIDS. We assist care for HIV/AIDS, TB, STROKE, HIGH BLOOD and CHILDREN HEADED FAMILIES. The organization has seen that we have many orphans so which means we are 25 care health workers. We establish a Drop In Center in 2006 at the place called LEPOTLAKO, and the OFFICE OF THE PREMIER funded us with R30 000.00 for gardening. We give the social development a number of 99 orphans and 40 vulnerable children. We started to form a group of care health workers to work as a group of two of them are cooking, five care health workers are bathing children those who does not have families, thirteen care health workers are helping the patients at home (door to door visits). We refer our orphans to the Department of Social Development to help them with foster grants. We identified 92 patients and refer them to MARABA CLINIC for assistant them with diagnoses and treatment. The nurses and the TB Coordinator at the clinic assist us to give care and support them. One man is helping our orphans to practice soccer and securing our place during the day. In 2003 we formed a group of four care health workers to make a vegetable garden in the clinic (greenery) to serve our orphans, vulnerable children and patients those who are affected and infected by HIV/AIDS with vegetables. We have managed to help them to get food parcels from our social workers so that they could have a better life. In 2007 September a group of 6 care health workers were trained at NCHEBEKO SKILLS CONSULTANCY as ANCILLARY HEALTH WORKERS AT DOORNSPRUIT GA – MASHASHANE.

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In 2011 we go back to MARABACLINIC, and sister in charge trained us with the group seven (7) care health workers with a HOME COMMUNITY BASED CARER. We recruit twelve (12) members to come and volunteer with us without money, all in all we are a group of 19 care health workers woman only. And in 2011 the Department of Health gives us a proposal asking funding for Stipend, Stationery, Uniform, Equipment, Transport, Rent, Electricity, Telephone and Board Meeting and in 2012 they funded us with. In that date we were funded we were very much happy. We found the money and buy office equipments, uniform, stationery we get stipend, payment of rent, payment of electricity and payment of transport. We serve for six villages.

Key objectives of the network or alliance *Please list these in bullet form – 300 words

o Provide support to infected and affected people on treatment, we are visiting our patients to check if they are taking their medication regularly.

o Provide referral services by referring our patient to the clinic, after assisting them they referred us back.

o Information sharing about gender links.o Conduct door to door visits to give care and support to families

about health education. The reduction of TB privileged in the community.

o Giving education to the children teaching them about cleanliness and a healthy population and well-being.

o Educate the community for prevention of sickness and eating balance diet.

o Assisting orphans and vulnerable children in obtaining government’s grants.

o Communicate with other sectors to deal with nutrition and to maintain a well-being to our patients.

o Adherence support to our patients .e.g support visits.o Helping with forms for proposals from different donors.o Basic nursing care (Feeding, wound care and bathing). o Patient traced ( lost patients)o Improve social status of the ill and poor people in our

community.

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o Establishment of food gardens.o We meet local Aids Council Aganang Municipality special focus

on monthly basis.

Beneficiaries and partners*Please list your key beneficiaries and partners in this table; those you reach directly and estimates of those whom you reach indirectly.

Direct Indirect Name of group Women Men Tota

l Women

Men Total

HOME BASE CARE

280 142 422 99 70 169

Total 280 142 422 99 70 169

Working with Maraba Clinic

Target group Beneficiaries Achieved totalAge group e.g. 10-14 years or all

Male Female

1.Children Visit under 5 years 366 459 8252. Youth Client 5 years and

older1093 1523 2616

3. Woman 200 371 5714. Older Person 123 248 3715. Person with Disability

100 141 241

6. Person with HIV/AIDS

44 200 244

7. Other (Specify) Chronics

250 375 625

Achieved results = 5 493.

VILLAGES SERVED

KALKSPRUIT GA – MAGONGWA BERZIGHT WASCH – BANK LEPOTLAKO CHRISTIANA

CHALLENGES

Our patients refused to go to the clinic No medication No kits and refills for Home Based Care Other patients are still smoking and drinking alcohol while they are

taking medication

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Elders did not want to screen their bodies because they did not want the nurses to see their private bodies.

Other students did not come and hear what we are saying they are running to the bushes.

Some of the carers are not trained of how do they treat a patient with bad sores

Our patients want to do gardens in their backyard, but their problems is that they do not have water in their villages.

Our people do not attend our awareness campaigns or IMBIZOS.

TYPE OF SERVICES (e.g. HBC,HTA, HCT e.t.c ) Services provided to orphans and vulnerable children. Provide support to infected and affected people on treatment. Provide referral services Conduct door to door campaign Empower primary care givers Conduct information, Education and Communication services Unaffected will be educated on prevention and cure Home Based care day to day visit where infected will give care and

educated on how they must look after themselves. Taking care of old people who are living alone by cooking and bathing

them. Taking care of old people who are living alone by cooking and bathing

them.

Monitoring and evaluation*What types of monitoring and evaluation methods and tools did you use to measure the impact of the campaign. These may include qualitative and quantitative -300 words

We implement the monitoring tools for the organization to monitor the care health workers in different villages about their work for caring the patients on daily basis.Development of monitoring tools by measuring the quality of services running by the coordinator and the manager of the organization.The tools are used by the coordinator and the manager when they are doing support visits to our patients in different villages und MARABA CLINIC. We conduct meetings with patients families.

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Conduct monthly meetings with care health workers on monthly basis to see if we are working all of us. Facilitation of monitoring visits by coordinator and regular meeting to be held with carers and management every Friday’s so that we could see if they reach the number of households. Monitoring of all carers by the coordinator and manager monthly.To educate the patients about the importance of taking treatment in right time and right prescription.

Relationship to the Alliance Secretariat *Please state how your network is linked to the national or regional secretariat of the Alliance; how this support has helped facilitate your work and how this support can be improved. -300 words

We are working with the Department of Social Development we refer orphans to the social workers and those who families problems. We are compiling the narrative report to the Department of Social Development and they have registered our organization by giving us the NPO Certificate (Non Profit Organization).

The organization linked with the department of health, they support us with the money to run programme. And we are compiling the monthly , quarterly and annual reports and submitted them to the office. The Department of Health come to our offices before the end of the financial year to do assessment of how do we use their money and our financial year ends up on the 31st March of every year. The Department of health give us some resources like Condoms, pampers and medication to help our patients. We are also linked with Aganang Municipality they give us water when we have functions and funerals, like awareness campaigns and to clean the ground where we are going to do the awareness at our villages because we are in a rural area.

We have come together by forming a forum as organizations, so in the forum they give us donation forms of different department to fill them. And we are linked with OLD MUTUAL and they donated us with the money to buy a fence. The organization succeeded with the donation from OLD MUTUAL, so we have bought a fence with that money of R20 000.We are working with MOSHATE they give us a space(stand) where we can build our offices because we are renting in the church house. We help our patients and orphans by referring them to SASSA for social grants.

Key activities *Please list at least five. – 300 words

Exercising of stroke patientsWe give care for our patient by cooking, bathing, eating and helping them for exercising (taking a walk around the house)

Giving patients health talk

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Early in the morning we meet in the clinic singing and praying with our patients for them to feel better when they are going to consult after that we give them health talk and they have questions we clarify for them.

Adhering supportTo give care and support to the patients at home (door to door visits) we care for the patient on weekly days e.g Monday to Friday with different illness like HIV/AIDS , TB, Chronics, Asthma, Diabetes, Mental health and given support in different diseases and the important of eating before they are taking their medication. If we have experienced the problems concerning our patients we referred the patient to the clinic.

To drink their medication regularly. We communicate with the patient to make sure that the treatment was taken regularly. To see our patient follow on treatment and eating before taking any medication. We want to see our patients healed and living a better life.

To give Health Education the community and at school.We educate the community on monthly basis to health related issues about the chronics diseases like diabetes and strokes and to eat healthy food.Encourage our patient to take care of themselves.

Resource mobilisation *Please state how you have mobilised for resource allocations for work on gender equality.

Amount local currency (specify)

Amount in Rand

Explanation

specific allocation Gender in mainstream projects (please specify)

R162,912.00DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

R110,400.00 *HUMAN RESOURCER16,272 *TRAVELLING COSTR12,200 *LOCAL PROJECT

COSTR2,000.00 *MAINTANANCER1000.00 CLEANING MATERIALR138,872.00 TOTAL DIRECT

PROJECT COSTR1,000.00 BOARD

R 11 040.00 ADMIN COST

R 162,912.00

Amount contributed in cash or in kind by partner organisations (please specify)

R20,000.00OLD MUTUAL

R20.000.00 FOR FENCE

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R20,000.00TOTAL R182,912.00 ALL IS FOR

MPHATLALATSANE HCBC

Results

Working with governments *What results have been achieved as a result of your work with government to implement the 28 targets of the SADC Gender Protocol? Do you sit on government delegations on regional and international platforms? Please give at least one example of the influence you have been able to exert in these structures? 200 words

We are working with the Department of Health (Maraba Clinic, Knobel hospital and Seshego Hospital by referring our patients to the clinic and they referred back to us if they need care for Home Base Care. We collect resources to refill the kits like hand cloves, bandage and bottles for sputoms for TB patients. We collect sputoms from the patients and submitted them to the clinic.In the clinic they also give us male and female condoms to distribute them to the tarvens, shops, shebeens and bottle stores to prevent diseases when they are having sex. We are giving our patients health talks when we are in the clinic and taking them to the consultant to consult with nurses. We are preparing reports and books to the clinic and having meetings with nurses. They trained us how to look after our patients at their homes. We are compiling our monthly, quarterly and annual reports and submitted to the Department of Health.

The Department of Health give us workshops on how to prepare our reports. We are also working with SASSA to refer our clients in case of foster grants, social grants and child support grants and SAPS in case of Domestic Violent where the family fights and someone is in danger. And we are working with AGANANG MUNICIPALITY (Local Municipality) to discuss and to educate us how to run an Organization and we submitted the Narrative reports every year at the end of financial year for compliance and the development of our organization. We meet together on month end to discuss the growth of the organization. The local municipality gives us forms for donations from different sectors. We are working with Capricorn District Municipality in January 2014 they have come to our Local Municipality (AGANANG) to workshop us about Gender Links, they have given us form to fill them so we have entered the competition. We are short listed to compete with other Organization in Capricorn District (LIMPOPO), the competition was held on the 5th of March 2015 at Bolivia Lodge but we are not the winner of the competition but they have awarded us with certificates. That is the reason why we want to enter the competition for SADC Gender Protocol Summit and Awards.

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Evidence*

Please provide testimonial evidence of the influence you had by providing at least one quote from a senior government functionary, from a speech or in any other platform, acknowledging the work of your organisation. Please ensure that you provide name, surname, organisation and designation. 200 words

Working with civil society*What strategies have you used to mobilise support amongst civil society to work on the 28 targets of the protocol? What have been the results. 200 words

At first we have meeting with INDUNAS AND MOSHATE for asking the permission to work in their villages. We called an IMBIZO at MOSHATE and invited community stakeholders. The MOSHATE (Councillor) referred us to the clinic to work with them as Home base care and the induna gaves us a space (stand) where we can operate on it, and we are still waiting for the TITLE DEED. Then OLD MUTUAL donated us with money to buy a fence for the stand.

We are working with churches especially when we are doing awareness campaigns we conduct with them to come and share with us the word of God and praying for the sickness (patients). They support our orphans and those who are affected and infected by HIV/AIDS, TB and stroke with clothes and foods. They also going with us when we are doing door to door visits for praying our patients at their homes to get a better life. They have given us a house to rent in our organization so that we can help our patients.

We also organize awareness campaign with our community in all six villages we served and after that we are doing door to door on the importance of taking the treatment. We teach people about how to care for the patient at their home, how to give them a treatment and the importance of cleanliness.

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And the important of pregnant woman to attend a clinic early to save the unborn baby.

Evidence*Please provide testimonial evidence of the influence you have had by providing at least one quote from a senior official in a society organisation acknowledging the work of your organisation. Please ensure that you provide name, surname, organisation and designation. 200 words

Working with communities*What are the results of your engagement with communities on the SADC Gender Protocol? Please provide at least one example. 200 words

Since from 2011 we are working on ongoing process from Monday to Friday by 08hoo in the morning till 16h00 in the evening. So we observe treatment daily for all chronic diseases, and also give Health Education to families on how to live a healthy lifestyle, balance diet, cleanliness and care for children’s health chart. We visited crèches, pre-schools to organize awareness campaigns with them. We care for elderly people by reminding them with dates for check-up in the clinic and collections of treatment. we give care to our orphans to see that they have getting foods. We hold an Annual General Meeting with the community every year at the end of financial year to give them the report of the work done throughout the year. We are also invited parents and guardian who care for orphans and vulnerable children at home to teach them how to care for themselves at home, and how to treat them.

EvidencePlease provide testimonial evidence in the form of at least one quote from a community member acknowledging the work of your organisation. Please ensure that you provide name, surname, organisation and designation.* 200 words

Capacity building*Does the organisation build capacity of other organisations on the SADC Protocol? Please provide at least example of training that has been conducted – 200 Words

We capacitate our care health worker how to educate the school children by doing home works, living a healthy lifestyle and how to take care of themselves. And how to observe treatment and how to bath them (patients). We capacitated MMAMPEPU Creche and TSEBE TSA TLOU Creche on how to take care for the children and to check health chart if they are going for the clinic for immunization and educate the school children by doing homework and health education. We are visiting the community at large by doing door to door visits to make sure that they are taking their medication regularly. By giving our patients health education in the clinic and mobile clinics. We

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empower our patients to make vegetable gardens in their yard, if they do not have water they must use dirty water to wet the garden and encourage our patients to eat healthy foods and living a healthy lifestyle.

Evidence*Please provide testimonial evidence by providing at least one quote from a person who has been trained regarding what they have learned. Please ensure that you provide name, surname, organization and designation. 200 words

In our organization we did not have a finance officer so we have trained Lilly Matsaung at Mphatlalatsane Home Community Based Care as a Finance officer to do our finances because at first we did not have someone to come and help us with finances. We show her how to compile the statistic, narrative and finance reports of our organization and she knows how to prepare them and submitted them. And we also trained Betty Mahloko, Sophia Sekele and Margaret Mashitisho of how to prepare a corp to help the families.

Lesson learned and innovation *1) Working with governments: How do you deal with situations where the

organisation and the government have different views on implementing the Protocol? Please give at least one example of how this creative tension has helped to produce better results?To work with government we have seen that the government have helped us to do workshops, so that we could know how to prepare and write the reports. We have new ideas on how to deal with issues in our organization and how to create special things or quality of job in the working place. We now know how to compile reports. At first we did know how to present a presentation and now we know. To work with other like partners we learned a good lesson and we know how to communicate with other people in the community. Now we know how to do things at our own. We have learned on how to approach the members of community. And other people known us when we have worn the uniform. And to have manners when we are doing the IMBIZO’S with the Moshate. We have learned how to communicate with people and how to keep secrecy of our patients, and also know how to face challenges

2) Working with partner organisations: What lessons have been learned about working with partner organisations?

Our ward committees takes our inputs to the councilor so that the counselor must take it to the municipality and we partnered with the Department of Health they gives us money to run the organization. We are no more struggling to get information from anywhere like founding forms for donors from different companies.Working with partnership is very much important because we have learned a lesson more especially on the promotion of gender equality. When we hire workers we know that we should consider equality. 3) Any other lessons learned?

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o We are still doing donations so that we could not rely on the Department of Health.

o Working with other sectors we have learned a lot because we know how to do things at our own.

o We have learned on how to prepare a corp while the families did not know. We have learned how to compile the proposals and how to do our own broucher.

4) How will these result in new approaches in the future? 500 words The organization planned to do more donation so that we could grow our organization from other different fundings, and to create more job to the community in six villages under MARABA CLINIC. Our community is in a rural area so most of our youth are not working we are planning to do more projects. We also have a stand (side) were we are going to build our offices like reception area, three offices, kitchen and board room for handling our meetings. We wish that we can open an old age project where we can help our community for those who does not have families to care and the disabled person and patient to cater them.

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