All about Ubuntu Ma Africa - HIV/AIDS and Awareness Project
I am theFounder of the organization: Nonqaba Sweetness Mpongwana
I want to uplift people living in disadvantaged communities to make a meaningful contribution to the development of their local municipality
Volunteer Staff of my organization:
1 project manager
1 finance person
1 project coordinator who manages 1 administration clerk
Historical Background
2001
Ubuntu Ma Africa was founded in 2001.
-->They deal with youth inside and outside school, women and children, people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and disabled people.
2002
They secured a contract to conduct pilot education programs for Masifunde Education and Developement Project.
2003
The organization formed a partnership with Attic:Nelson Mandela Metropole (training program) and Rape Crisis Port Elizabeth Branch to begin counseling rape victims.
They secured a contract to conduct HIV/AIDS training programs in Taleni Location Idutywa.
2006
They formed a partnership with Promotion of Rural and Urban Livlihoods (Ruliv).
2007
They secured a year contract with the Us Small Project Foundation at Pretoria to provide home-based care and support, training and education for HIV/AIDS
2008
They formed a partnership with Manyano Training Center to be a facilitator for their training programs.
They received funding for 3 of their facilitators to be trained as facilitators and assessors by Black People´s Convention (BPC) Training Consultants at Durban.
We want to empower other people to breakdown the barriers of social reputation
We want to strengthen community involvement and participation in health issues so as to improve puplic accountability and responsibility for health promotion,care and support
We instill an attitude of self-help and independence. Further more we help unemployed people to be self-employed
We promote peer education of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections education, home-based care and support and counseling management
We try to combat stigma and encourage people to speak out about their rights
We train and build youth and elders’ confidence in order to be able to manage and contain the
spread of HIV/AIDS through training, information sharing and
dissemination
We make a difference by creating awareness in the community in which we live and to promote skills transfer to previously
disadvantaged communities and individuals to reduce crime and property
That means that we are doing home visits, door-to-door campaigns, personal hygiene and basic medical care,persuading
patients to visit the mobile clinic when it is in our area
This contains peer education of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Nutrition, Teenage pregnancy, Mother-to-Child Transmissions
(MTCT), sexuality education, human rights, children’s rights, rape, family
violence, Sexual assault at schools, churches and in our communities
Counseling for people living with HIV/AIDS
Assistance with welfare programs such as food distribution and
care of orphanages
Referral to other service providers
Cleaning services like grass cutting, street
cleaning, litter removal (papers and plastic)
Consulting services:
They support groups for HIV/AIDS and mentoring other community-based organizations about office
administration and bookkeeping
and educated personnel with experience to run training, manage the organization
and the projects implemented.
We are also successfully competent at facilitators
and assessors of the South African Health and Welfare Sector
Educational Training Authority in partnership with the South African
Qualification Authority and the Department of Labour.
The quality of work meets the standard of the
National Quality Forum (including patient safety and infection control) and as
required by the Education and Training Quality Assurance procedures.
Lack of premises owned by the organization only rental premises available and no funding for the centre
Competition with well capacitated and developed training centers
Lack of funds for marketing and advertising (radio, print, online)
Lack of employment opportunities for the surrounding youth to be able to learn and acquire the skills that we are providing.
--> If we can get a shipping container or a prefab building ( which would be a luxury), the government would grant us a piece of land where we could set up permanent offices - rent free. That means that our organization has better conditions and money to help our community in all their problems!
If only each of you will donate a little bit for the shipping container you can help a whole community!
We want to help!!!!
And you?
Donate and help!!!
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