ABOUT
Uzwelo Rural Orphan Care offers community-based child and youth care services that focus on orphans and vulnerable children residing in rural areas. These prevention services are aimed at strengthening families and creating healthier communities.
Trained child and youth care workers embrace, support and guide children in :
Daily practical activities
Transferring of knowledge and skills
Referring to community resources
Ensuring of food security
"It takes a village to raise a child"
UZWELO
Community-based child and youth
care programm
RURAL ORPHAN CARE
PROGRAMMES IMPLEMENTED
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EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT
Activities include:
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Promoting attendance of early childhood development groups
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Ensuring children school attendance
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Assisting with the acquiring of school uniforms
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Monitoring of educational progress and outcomes of learners
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Assisting with homework
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Referring learners with special needs to resources
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Assisting learners with bursary applications for tertiary education
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FOOD SECURITY
UROC plays a role in poverty alleviation by:
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Assisting with the application for identity and other legal documentation
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Assisting in attaining grants and pensions
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Establishing and maintaining community and private food gardens
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Providing food parcels when needed
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Provide meals during school holidays at Safe Parks
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Transferring of budgeting skills
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PREVENTION AND AWARENESS
Arrange and facilitate prevention campaigns regarding:
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Teenage pregnancy
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Alcohol and other substance abuse
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Domestic violence
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Victim empowerment
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Nutrition
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Children's rights and responsibilities
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Child abuse and protection
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HIV/ AIDS prevention
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Parenting
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DISABILITY
This programme aims to ensure that the needs of children with disabilities are addressed in the following ways:
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facilitating access to grants and medical care
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gaining access to schools
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providing appropriate physical and psychosocial care and support
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participating in recreational and cultural activities
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Empower parents to deal with disabled children’s needs
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SAFE PARKS
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child requires all to:
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Recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure,
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Engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and
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Participate freely in cultural life and the arts
Activities Include:
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Organized sports and games
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Traditional cultural activities and practices, including indigenous games, cultural dance and song – and storytelling by elders.
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Homework supervision and tuition for groups or individual children.
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Group and individual discussions on different matters such as teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS.
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Toy libraries.
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Food security programs, including community food gardens where children learn gardening skills, as well as feeding schemes.
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Holiday programs for engaging children throughout school holidays.
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Feeding schemes during school holidays.
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Commemoration of public holidays/ cultural day
Safe Parks are places of healing, support, and belonging for all children residing in the community.
A SERVICE JOURNEY
