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Welfare Reg. No. 009 – 986
Tax Exemption Ref. No.: 9009/087/18/1
Annual Report
April 2008 – March 2009
FORMAT FOR THE ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 2008 – MARCH 2009
1. Introduction, Report for the Financial year April 2008 – March 2009
2. Opening Balances, Funds granted & Expenditure
3. Background: Statement of Need, Vision, Mission, Theories of Change & Target Group
4. Broad Objectives, Target Group, Programmes, Planned Activities & Indicators
5. Activities Performed and Results
5.1 Temba’s Contribution to the Millennium Development Goals
6. Specific Problems encountered
7. Conclusion
This report serves as an overview on the activities and the progress made by Temba
during the year April 2008 to March 2009. This was the third year into the Strategic
Plan and the Organisation was working towards the consolidation of the 2006 – 2008
Strategic Plan. During the last six months, there has been a lot of growth, which
is also due to the moving to the new Centre/Shelter, the Peace Summit and ‘Men’s
March’ held in March 2009 to address Gender Based Violence and the implementation
of the Men Circles of Support. With regard to funding, it has been a very challenging
time due to Donor fatigue and the economic down-
2. OPENING BALANCES, FUNDS GRANTED & EXPENDITURE:
Temba had signed an agreement with Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF)
for the third year, 2008 – 2009, and the amount agreed upon was 35’000 Canadian Dollars
for HIV/AIDS Care and Support Services, including Home Based Care and Gender Awareness-
In 2006, Temba also signed an agreement with Africa Groups of Sweden (AGS) for a grant towards the general purposes of the Organisation for two years, 2006 – 2008. The amount granted for 2008 – 2009 was SEK 300 000, and Temba received the first tranche of R249 200.00 in June 2008. The balance of R120 700 was transferred in November 2008. The total amount which was received from AGS was R369 900, which was added to an amount of R400.29, which was brought forward from March 2008 to April 2008 Financial year. At the end of March 2009 the total expenditure from this account was R353 530.34, and the bank balance at the end of March 2009 is R16 769.95.
Other donations were received during this period from the following partners; R3 500.00, from Umtata Baptist Church; R5 000.00 from O. R. Tambo Red Ribbon Award of Excellence; R7 800.00 from Mr. Bread; R59 122.00 from the Eastern Cape NGO Coalition/Premier Discretionary Fund Garden for Nutrition Programme; R35 000.00 received from PWRDF from the interest received in the Building account; R160.00 from Mr. Bikitsha; R65 452.50 from Cell C & SABC Mhlobo Wenene; Checkers R3 150.00 and another anonymous donation of R500.00.
At the end of March 2009 the other three bank accounts had the following bank balances; EU/Health – R3 895.41; Main Account – R17 197.57 and PWRDF Building Account R47 286.37.
N.B: At the end of the Financial year, Temba still owed the Building Construction Project Managers an amount of R193 210.53, and that is the reason the Building Account is still open so as to continue to raise funds and pay the balance. It is also envisaged that as Temba continues to raise funds, the second phase of the construction of the Centre will also commence.
a. PROBLEM STATEMENT/STATISTICS:
In June 2007, Statistics S.A. published the report “Mortality and causes of death in S.A.”, which revealed that the annual number of registered deaths rose by a massive 87% between 1997 and 2005. Among those aged 25 to 49 years, the rise was 169% in the same nine year period. We could say part of the overall increase is due to population growth, however, this does not explain the rise in deaths among people aged 25 to 49 years. In 1997, this age group accounted for 30% of all deaths, but in 2005 it accounted for 42%.
It has been reported that death rate among men aged 30 – 39 more than doubled, while among women aged 25 – 34 more than quadrupled. In their report, Statistics S.A. calls such developments “alarming” and “disturbing”.
b. VISION:
Temba has a vision of a PEACEFUL community characterized by strong spirit of ‘Ubuntu’; free from poverty and related social ills.
c. MISSION STATEMENT:
The mission of the Temba Community Development Services is to empower and support
Communities who are affected by HIV/AIDS and Gender Related Injustices, mitigate
the effects through Gender-
d. THEORIES OF CHANGE:
Values, Beliefs & Principles informing all Temba Programmes:
• Temba believes that, just like men and boys, women and girls in South Africa are valuable and deserve a chance to live a life of dignity where they can realise their aspirations and potentials.
• Temba acknowledges and is committed in addressing inequalities based on gender relations, in line with Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Right to participate and benefit from rural developmental; the Right to access health care and family planning facilities that provide prevention and treatment of sexual transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS and the Right to improve the quality of their lives in a sustainable way. HIV/AIDS cannot be dealt effectively, unless the Rights of women, girls and children are at the centre of the response, such as the Bill of Rights, CEDAW, Beijing Platform of Action, etc.
In all Temba Programmes, messages do not only focus on HIV Prevention and living positively with the virus, but also on implementing programmes which will go down the root of the problem which is the ideology of Gender.
e. TARGET GROUP:
Temba’s target group consists mainly of:
« Women and girls
« Men and boys
4. OBJECTIVES, PROGRAMMES, PLANNED ACTIVITIES & INDICATORS:
4.1 BROAD OBJECTIVES:
a) Conducting HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Gender Awareness Raising Campaigns and Skills Building Workshops.
b) Providing Care and Support to women and men, girls and boys infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, and those affected by Gender Based Violence.
c) Mitigating HIV/AIDS impact and creating an environment that would enhance coping capabilities of women and men, girls and boys infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
4.2 PROGRAMMES:
« Priority Area 1: Prevention: Education through Gender-
« Priority Area 2: Care, Support, Treatment & Nutrition
« Priority Area 3: Mitigating Impact, through Circles of Support, Lobbying, Advocacy and Human Rights
4.3 PLANNED ACTIVITIES AND INDICATORS
4.3.1 EDUCATION THROUGH GENDER-
Goal: To reduce the rate of new infections by half by 2011, empower with skills both infected and affected, and empower communities to work to stop violence against women and children.
Objectives:
1. Conducting a monthly day’s Awareness-
2. Conducting five annual centralized HIV/AIDS Awareness-
a) Skills, knowledge and available resources that could enhance their protection from being infected with HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, how to live positively, ARV Treatment, Behavioural change and Care for people living with the virus.
b) Skills, to enable Parents communicate and relate better with their children, while engaging on Relationships and Sexuality issues so as to empower both parents and their children as a prevention strategy.
c) Skills and knowledge on Rights, Access to Services, HIV Testing (VCT) and how to reduce Poverty by forming Cooperatives.
d) Skills and knowledge on Gender concepts and relationships between Gender, Sexuality, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, so as to make sure that people stop violence against women and children. Also to make sure that Rape Survivors are educated, assisted and are able to have access to places of support.
N.B.: During this period of the 3rd year of the Strategic Plan – 2008-
3. Conducting follow-
a) Reach out to those who did not attend the above Workshops
b) Begin a process of setting up Community Based Support Structure (CBSS) for continuous interaction
c) Strengthen knowledge (to assist to liberate minds) and skills acquired from the
above-
d) Provide on-
e) Gather and document information, experiences of women and girls; men and boys, including those who are infected and affected by the virus for lobbying and advocacy purposes.
N.B.: 459 women and men were trained within the Ward-
4.3.2 CARE, SUPPORT, TREATMENT AND NUTRITION PROGRAMME
Objectives:
a) Ensuring that women and girls, men and boys have equal access to all necessary government services, such as; relevant Treatment and Grants; access to free female condoms at all public places; and are all treated equally, with dignity and respect, for example, volunteer Home Based Caring is not made only women’s responsibility but that of men, meaning that mechanisms to ensure gender balance in Support Structures/Groups and Carers is crucial.
With workshop Facilitators, Carers in their day’s monthly campaigns in the wards,
would prioritise inclusion of the above-
b) Setting up Community Based Support Groups of women infected by HIV/AIDS with the aim of ensuring that their ‘voices are heard and’, they are given space to discuss their own experiences and issues affecting them as women living with the virus. These Support Groups are linked to the Masihlanganeni Network for People living with HIV or AIDS.
c) Provide on-
« Ensure that people get full package of Treatment, Care, Nutrition and Support so that they can live longer and healthier lives.
« Prevent Orphan hood by making sure that parents and other Caregivers who are HIV Positive or other sickness get care, treatment, good nutrition and support.
« Afford the dignified care and passing on (death), for example, focusing on issues
of Wills including rights of women and girls to estate of the deceased, Foster-
« Empower them with skills and knowledge about Nutrition and Treatment management focusing on women’s and girls’ needs, developments around micro biocides trials, etc.
Programme strategy:
Sustainability and effectiveness of this programme depends on:
a) Collaborating with other Temba programmes, for example, hand-
b) Ensuring that, with women and girls, men and boys from identified Wards, rights of women and girls affected and infected by the virus are upheld, by those in positions of power. E.g. Local Government Councillors and Officials, Government Departments with local offices, e.g. Education, Health, Agriculture, etc.
c) Temba perceives itself as an interim service provider whose core business is to
ensure that duty-
Programme has the following components:
a) A Drop In Centre has been built to provide a Shelter for the Chronically, Terminally
ill clients and Abused/Abandoned clients. In September 2008 the clients were moved
into the new Shelter. It is envisaged that during 2009/2010 Financial year, the
Temba Centre will implement the following services; Soup Kitchen and Voluntary Counselling
& Testing (VCT) Facility; Kids Club with toys (day service) and Vegetable and Herb
Garden. The second phase will have a Seminar Room for In-
b) Community Outreach – Home Based Care/Home Visits; Setting and Supporting Circles
of Support (CBSS); Awareness-
The Care and Support Programme is being done by 15 Carers, which now includes 12 Fulltime Carers in the Shelter, who also conduct outreach/home visits, while working with 3 Fieldworkers/Carers, the Coordinator, Professional Nurse, Programmes Manager and the Director.
There are five members of the Management Committee/Board who continuously volunteers their services whenever it is possible. As the five (5) Facilitators conduct Campaigns and Workshops, and Fieldwork they also refer clients to the Shelter and other Health Services.
The number of clients who have been supported and cared for from April 2008 to March 2009 is 1 110. The monthly average of clients who benefitted during this period is 92 per month. See the Statistical Report below:
STATISTICAL REPORT:
Home Visits/Home Based Care Programme including Shelter:
April 2008 – March 2009
4.3.3 LOBBYING, ADVOCACY & HUMAN RIGHTS
Goal: To mitigate and decrease impact, while ensuring that the rights of Women, Children and People living with HIV and/or AIDS, and are treated with respect and dignity.
Objectives:
As a strategy, Temba has decided to work with similar-
Many people are getting sick while working in big cities, and then when that happens, they are sent home to die. It has become incumbent upon Temba to lobby Big Corporates, for their involvement in these programmes and to include Outreach Education, Care and Support in their Social Responsibility Programmes.
Temba will continue to build additional International, Regional and National Partnerships and Alliances with influential Civil Society Organisations, such as Churches, Traditional, other Women’s organisations, including influential individuals with expertise in the areas identified and who might subscribe to the values of gender justice and equality.
Implementation strategy, in order to ensure that all of the above is effective;
a) Work with collaborators, such as MRC, TAC, PWRDF, AGS, PHASO, RTC, ECNGOC, MANEPHA, Temba Partnership Network, etc. Temba will also outsource work and work with some of the partners, e.g. Medical Research Council (MRC) on relevant empirical research.
b) Temba National Office will be in place strategically so as to collaborate with strategic National and Regional Partners, and also lobby Big Corporates involvement, including fundraising.
c) In collaboration with other Temba programmes, lobbying and advocacy programme
is part and parcel of the on-
d) Work with men and boys in ongoing Campaigns to lobby and advocate, focusing on processes, strategies to ensure that Rights of Women, Girls, Children, including those who have HIV or AIDS are upheld, and they are able to articulate such rights, e.g. access to treatment from Health Centers. This includes Campaigns and ‘Peace March’ on Gender Based Violence.
e) Information gathering and documenting focusing specifically on women’s and girls’
needs and experiences is an on-
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Home Based Care Reports with kind of support and advice given.
Counselling to the sick and to the family.
Nutrition and treatment management, also sharing this information with the entire family, including the sick.
Referrals and accompanying the sick person to the clinic, doctor, hospital or Temba Shelter.
Admission and provision of sheltering and caring of the chronically and the terminally ill at the Shelter. Counselling and information sharing around treatment and nutrition management.
Provision of treatment and nutritious diet.
Management of the bedridden, cleanliness of the client and offering of spiritual assistance.
Assist the clients to get disability grants from Social Development.
Assist during death with death certificates and bereavement counselling.
Referral of Orphans and Vulnerable children to CINDI and Social Development for placement and foster caring.
Recruiting more Carers and providing them not only with stipends, but also travelling allowances will assist, although as previously mentioned, the mobility of people, from one place to the other, could hinder this intervention. Immune Reconstitution Syndrome is becoming a big challenge with people who are being put on ARVs while their CD4 Count is down, below 50, especially for clients who were not properly treated for opportunistic infections. ARVs are not an emergency, since you have to make sure that Opportunistic Infections are treated thoroughly, and nutrition management is done so that their CD 4 Count can go up a little before they get on ARVs. MDR and XDR TB has been another challenge, and as such most people who are being looked after are either treated or screened thoroughly for TB.
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6 x Meetings were held for Medical Research Council (MRC) Community Advisory Board.
Awareness – Raising Campaigns on Gender Based Violence, Rape and PEP once every month through the Unitra Community Radio.
Summit with different Stakeholders, including House of Traditional Leaders and Council of Churches was held in March 2009.
A ‘Men’s Peace March’ was held to commemorate Human Rights Day was held on the 20th March 2009.
The Summit resolved to put in place a Temba Partnership Network which is going to meet once every two months.
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