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     home-based care

 - Eastern Cape

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What Ingwavuma Orphan Care does

  • Their social worker and paralegal officers help get birth certificates and IDs and then to apply for governmental foster care grants.
  • They provide emergency food parcels whilst grants are sourced
  • Their orphan clubs in 20 schools provide structured psycho-social support to 400 orphans.
  • They hold orphan camps to give the children a wider view of the world.
  • Each year they organise Christmas parties, each for 300 orphans, to raise awareness of the problem within each community.
  • They provide a community-based health service so that it is not children who must tend to their parent dying of AIDS.
  • They try to get their carers involved in one of their income generating projects.
  • They hold support groups for HIV+ children and their carers.
  • Their community-based carers provide training in memory boxes where a dying parent can leave mementos for their children in a positive way.  

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