2010 Highlights - Nelson Mandela Foundation
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NMF Community Conversations
2010
Community Conversation’s Highlights
TEAM KLTG
MOTLATSI LEKHULENI
Communities and Teams
Limpopo – Khakhala Village
North West – Lerome
Free State – Thabanchu
Northern Cape - Galeshewe
2010 Highlights - Khakhala
Tribal Authority
Khakhala Local Clinic
13 – 19 August 117 Tested
20 – 26 August 124 Tested
Recreation Facilities
Community Moral
Facilitators – Mandela Day 2010.
2010 – 710 Total CC Attendance.
2010 Highlights - Lerome
Gender Inequality
Task Team – Women’s Month
Facilitators – Mandela Day
2010 – 655 Total CC Attendance
2010 Highlights - Thabanchu
Prostitution
Taverns
Crime – Rape & Mugging
Facilitators – Mandela Day
2010 – 760 Total CC Attendance
2010 Highlights - Galeshewe
Teenage Pregnancy & Criminal Activities.
Taverns.
New Start.
Youth Aids.
Facilitators – Mandela Day.
2010 – 925 Total CC Attendance.
Lessons Learnt
• Communities & Capacity
Similar concerns – No blanket solutions
Dialogue – Community owned solutions
Unity – Powerful communities
Thank You
TEAM KSM
SIVIWE KHABA
COMMUNITIES
GAUTENG – KLIPTOWN
GAUTENG – SOSHANGUVE
MPUMALANGA – MHLUZI
KLIPTOWN HIGHLIGHTS
40 tested
Stakeholder Partnerships
Task Team
Launch HCT campaign
Pre schools and Schools Outreach
Disclosure
Gender equality
Tribute to women on women’s month
Involvement of the community in support groups to offer
more support to the infected.
Committee {supervision}.
SOSHANGUVE HIGHLIGHTS
Formation of groups in schools.
Continuity in dialogues
Lack of Communication
Facilitators establishing an organization.
Tribute paid to women on women’s month
Substance Abuse. [partnership with SANCA]
Establish partnerships.
Competition
Sense of belonging
Peer education
MHLUZI
Human rights workshop.
Creation of a safe space.
Establishment of organization (s).
Recreational activities
Recreational facilities
Resentment.
LESSON LEARNT
A need to promote “dialogue” within the families
(households) set up.
Need for a healing process within the communities.
“United we stand and divided we fall”
Communication is key in any sphere of our lives.
Abstinence
Community owned solutions could be sustainable
CONCLUSION
I THANK YOU
TEAM KEW
LESLEY NKOSI
4 COMMUNITIES THREE
PROVINCES
• KWA-ZULU NATAL – KWA-MAKHUTHA
• EASTERN CAPE – NGANGELIZWE
• EASTERN CAPE – EMANTLANENI VILLAGE
• WESTERN CAPE - LANGA TOWNSHIP
KwaMakhutha
2010 highlights:
•Poverty
•Functionality of the clinic
•Functionality of the police station
•Youth & Culture (Virgin testing effectiveness)
•Drug abuse (Woonga)
Ngangelizwe (Mthatha)
2010 Highlights
• Poverty
• Unemployment
• Issues with the clinic
• Drug Abuse
Emantlaneni Village (Lusikisiki)
2010 Highlights
• Rape and Murder cases of girl children
• Clinic functionality (Unavailability of ARV treatment)
• Formation of Action Teams
• Improved relations with SAPS
Langa Township (Cape Town)
2010 Highlights
• Alcohol and drug abuse
• Rape of grandmothers
• Fear of disclosure
• Lack f confidence – clinic staff
• Testing
LESSONS LEARNT
• Communities have little or no faith in the public health system
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(all areas)
There is a problem with DRUGS in all communities (peri-urban
and urban)
Access to ARVs generally a problem
Link between substance abuse and rape and other violent
crimes
Except in Rural areas where rape is as a result of persistent
myths and culture
Causes of the spread of HIV and other social injustices are
deeply rooted in the fibre of society
LESSONS LEARNT – cont.
• The wounds of any community can be healed through Community
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Dialogues (Strength through unity)
Culture can be challenged to work for communities in the fight
against wrong.
Communities are capable of bringing change
Poverty is never an excuse. Moral rejuvenation is possible.
Individuals can grow (one individual value changed = whole
community value change)
Partnerships are crucial
Thank You