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THE SADC GENDER PROTOCOL SUMMIT 2014
ALLIANCE AND COALITION BUILDING APPLICATION
Swaziland
Faith Manana
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SYNOPSIS
I am the founder and coordinator of the Home Sweet
Home orphanage.
Challenges and issues of HIV families, child abuse
which leads to parents dying and child headed
families.
Home visits (Disabled children and sick children)
HIV positive rape survivor
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OBJECTIVES
 Empowering children affected and infected by HIV
 Support for orphans and other children made vulnerable by
HIV/AIDS
 Expanding care, treatment and support
 Reducing stigma and discrimination
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BACKGROUND
 We discovered a need of embracing orphaned and vulnerable
people in our church more especially children. We realized
the growing numbers of needy people, abused and sick
people (HIV/AIDS).
 An Orphanage home has been built to cater for the different
needs that arises from day to day.
 By providing meals and psychosocial support to the needy
families.
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KEY ACTIVITIES
 Campaigning in the community.
 Sunday School Rallies with other churches from the
community.
 Sport days.
 Take them out to a park where they play different games such
as swings, seesaw, concentration
games.
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Amount
(specify)
local
currency
Amount in Rand
RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS
Amount local
(specify)
Gender specific allocation
Gender in mainstream projects (please
specify)
currency
Gender specific allocation
none
Gender
in
mainstream
projects (please
specify)
none
Amount
contributed
in
cash or in kind by
partner
organizations
(please specify)
E12,000 per year
Am
oun
t in
Ran
d
Explanation
Amount contributed in cash
or in kind by partner
organisations
(please
specify)
The church contributes E1,000
per month that help in the
orphanage to pay medical bills
for the children and buying other
staffs to add on the groceries
that are normally contributed to
help in the orphanage.
TOTAL
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BENEFICIARIES
CATEGORY
Direct beneficiaries e.g.
number
of
parliamentarians trained
Indirect
beneficiaries
(e.g.
through
other
networks)
Online beneficiaries (e.g.
website access, mailing
lists, scholarly articles)
Total
WOMEN
MEN
TOTAL
% WOMEN
60%
70%
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CHALLENGES
 Child headed household.
 HIV positive children, are referred to Baylor clinic for
treatment.
 Elderly people given food parcels by the church.
 Identifying disabled people who were hidden by their
families, through god’s grace the DPM office donated
wheel chairs.
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MONITORING AND EVALUATION
 Daily registers
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Home visits register
Record keeping of food commodities
Record keeping on donations by church
Sunday attendance
Status of cases followed or referred to other institutions
Community response has encouraged volunteerism (school leaver, retired
elderly)
 Monthly, quarterly and annual reports
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RESULTS
 Capacity building
 The children now have high self esteem and independent
 We also teach them about all sources available in the country where they can get
help. For example the free tall numbers, and the CBOs around.
 Evidence *
Welile Maziya said, (Anti siyabonga kusisita) meaning that she was grateful about the
help they get from the orphanage.
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LESSON LEARNED AND INNOVATION
 Children need love and care
 Success is not only about money, it is also about partnership,
engagement, strengthening organizations and learning.
 Social change, children learn and adopt to increase their
effectiveness.
 Be a good listener and understand their language (they learn
through plays)
 Sometimes your expectations are not met.
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LEARNING AND SHARING WITH
PARTNERS
We usually meet with church leaders community
leaders, rural health motivators, home based care
and care givers, community police.
Cases are being referred to relevant stakeholders
such as police, health practitioners, NGO’s
Other stakeholders are invited to sensitize
communities on relevant issues
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SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION
By securing funding with stakeholders on board eg
NERCHA,UNICEF etc
Through fundraising locally (church)
Initiating income generating projects.
Empowering families economically eg savings
scheme
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KEY PRIORITIES FOR 2014
 The orphanage gave birth to a pre-school, so we are hoping to start a
primary school.
 We are writing proposals to Organisations like World Vision and NERCHA
for support like food donations, clothing and toys
 By the end of 2014 we are hoping the number of people supported by this
initiative will be increased
 We are expecting the helped families to come back for spiritual growth in
the church.
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