World Vision South Africa
Annual Report 2012
Contents
Welcome....................................................................................................................................... 2
Acronyms..................................................................................................................................... 3
Overview of FY2012............................................................................................................... 4
World Vision SA’s Summary Report on Child Well-Being ............................. 5
Advocacy....................................................................................................................................... 6
Policy input impacts children............................................................................................ 6
Child Health Now campaign............................................................................................. 7
Parliamentary Advocacy Training................................................................................... 7
Child Protection....................................................................................................................... 8
Citizen Voice and Advocacy............................................................................................... 8
Christian Commitments..................................................................................................... 8
Operations................................................................................................................................... 9
Networks of Hope................................................................................................................... 9
Reports from the field........................................................................................................... 10
Education...................................................................................................................................... 13
Health, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition............................................................................................. 14
Psychotherapy helps depressed youngsters............................................................. 15
Humanitarian Emergency Affairs................................................................................... 16
Financial highlights - 2012................................................................................................... 17
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Welcome
“The one who plants and the one who waters work
together with the same purpose.
And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.”
I Corinthians 3:8
Acronyms
ADP................................ Area Development Programme
CBO............................... Community Based Organisation
CVA................................ Community Voice and Action
CWBA.......................... Child Well-Being Aspirations
By Paula Barnard, National Director
CWBO......................... Child Well-Being Outcomes
Welcome to our overview of World Vision South Africa’s activities in the financial year
ending 30 September 2012.
DOH.............................. Department of Health
Whilst the period covered by this report falls outside my sphere of operation as I joined
World Vision South Africa as National Director in February 2013, it is certainly not
beyond my capacity to recognise the good work that was done, and the milestones that
were accomplished by the incumbent team.
DOSD........................... Department of Social Development
DME............................... Design Monitoring and Evaluation
DPA................................ Development Programme Approach
World Vision South Africa continued to positively impact the lives of children, closing
the year with just over 51 000 registered children in a total of 20 programmes, in six
provinces across South Africa.
ECD................................ Early Childhood Development
A heartfelt thank you must go to the FY2012 Board, which so ably steered the World
Vision South Africa vessel through some turbulent waters during the year. Your
commitment to the vision and goals of World Vision South Africa, and your unwavering
service was valuable and much appreciated.
GBV................................ Gender Based Violence
Thanks must also go to the staff complement for their hard work and diligence in the
many areas of operation of the South African office.
FY.................................... Financial Year
HEA............................... Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs
IPM................................. Integrated Programming Model
MRC............................... Medical Research Council
While this is not an exhaustive report of all the efforts throughout the year, it does
reflect a broad outline of the scale of work that was undertaken, and the impact it had
on individual lives, on whole communities, and indeed on policies through advocacy.
MVC............................... Most Vulnerable Children
We trust you will enjoy going through this report, and that through it you will continue
to be ‘Inspired to see no child without’.
NO.................................. National Office
NGO.............................. Non-Governmental Organisation
NSP................................ National Strategy Plan
NOH.............................. Networks of Hope
OVC............................... Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
Paula Barnard
PMTCT........................ Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission
World Vision South Africa is a Christian humanitarian organisation dedicated to working
with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the
causes of poverty and justice.World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race,
ethnicity or gender.
RC................................... Registered Child
WHO............................ World Health Organisation
WVSA.......................... World Vision South Africa
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Overview
World Vision SA’s
Summary Report on
of FY2012
World Vision South Africa areas of operation
Eastern Cape
Mpofu
Nkonkobe
Mbhashe
Umzimvubu
KwaZulu-Natal
Ixopo
Embo
Okhahlamba
Kwamaphulumo
Umvoti
Umzimkulu
Limpopo
Kodumela
Thusalushaka
Giyani (Under Assessment)
Gauteng
Orlando East
Orange Farm (Under Assessment)
Western Cape
Atlantis
Mbekweni
Free State
Thaba Nchu
Khauhelo
Mangaung Learning Centre
During our financial year ending
30 September 2012 – FY2012 –
we operated in
six provinces with
20 programmes and reached
51 165 registered children
We made a commitment that by 2015 we
will have contributed to the measurable
well-being of 5 million vulnerable
children through partnerships that
focus on innovative programming, policy
influence, and resource mobilisation.
We aligned our sectoral focus to that of
the Southern Africa Regional Office, which
identifies health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition,
WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene),
education, food security, household
income and community resilience, child
protection, and spiritual nurture as crucial
platforms to pursue the child well-being
outcomes and targets.
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Limpopo
KwaZulu-Natal
Gauteng
Eastern Cape
Free State
Western Cape
Child Well-Being
The first WVSA Summary Report on Child
Well-Being in 2012 gave the organisation a
bird’s eye view of its national office strategy
implementation and monitoring progress
in order to inform short term and long
term planning and impact on CWB.
better future for all the children. Issues of
poverty are still rife with drastic impacts
on women and children, WVSA realises
the need for integrated interventions to
increase household incomes and improve
food security.
The report showed a mixed array of
results as the organisation tries to
strategically prioritise interventions in
Health, HIV/ AIDS, Nutrition, WASH,
Education, Food Security, Household
Income and Community Resilience as
well as Child Protection & Spiritual
Nurture.While there are positive results
in areas of immunisation and PMTCT,
great effort is needed in promoting
exclusive breast feeding.
Improved nutrition for children and their
communities through food security and
agriculture activities in the ADPs have a
positive influence on children reporting
increased well-being. The Kodumela
bakery project for example indicates
that with improved feeding schemes the
performance of the children improved
drastically both at the school level as well
as the national assessment level.
Education revealed a number of worrying
indicators that need immediate attention,
and while investments in the ECD and
Grade R sectors through supply of learning
resources and improved nutrition are
showing positive results in reading, more
needs to be done for the intermediate
and higher grades in order to secure a
Advocacy and justice for children has
made inroads in increasing child care and
protection however GBV and child abuse
is seriously affecting communities with
serious connotations on women and child
well-being. Advocacy based partnerships
such as Yezingane were identified as the
most practical way to address GBV and
child abuse. ADPs need further training
and capacity building for them to influence
local policies in education, health and
child protection. Measurement of these
initiatives also needs to be improved for
better reporting.
Our programmes are based on the
aspiration that empowered communities
will be more resilient to poverty, the social
nets will cushion communities from harsh
external factors, children’s rights will be
known and children will be protected,
children will be educated, and their future
will be secured.
Our indicators for nutrition will show
improved nutrition due to 7/11 and
the food security interventions that we
are prioritising; improved literacy and
numeracy in education will show as
children are capacitated at the foundation
phase.
WVSA is committed to this cause as
indicated in this first report and further
progress will be demonstrated in future
reports.
Strategic
objectives
For this to materialise, a comprehensive strategy was developed that
comprises four strategic objectives each with a number of sub-objectives.
These objectives are:
1. Decreased vulnerability of children
2. Increased policy influence and engagement
3. Increased resource acquisition
4. Increased organisational effectiveness
This report focuses on strategic objectives 1 and 2 and their subobjectives, identifying areas in which the ADPs have directly or indirectly
contributed towards the child well-being outcomes.
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Advocacy
• Strategic objective 2: Increased policy influence and
engagement
•Sub-objectives:
o Increased authoritative voice at all levels driving
implementation of policies and practices in health,
education and child protection
o Increased participation of girls and boys in key decision
making platforms
o Reduced conflict in communities
Steps were taken towards influencing policy formulation and
policy implementation that is friendly to the Child Well-Being
Aspirations (CWBA) in areas such as health, education and child
protection through advocacy-related models such as:
• Citizen Voice and Action (CVA)
• Child Health Now campaign (CHN) that amplifies the
• Channels of Hope Training for Faith Leaders in Gender, Child
Protection and Maternal and Child Health
• Gender Based Violence (GBV)
• Child Protection and Advocacy (CPA)
The previous two years saw advocacy initiatives being
mainstreamed and integrated in all the ADPs.
impacts children
Through this initiative World Vision impacted on health aspects
of 200 000 children.
This platform was also used by the Department of Health for
valuable input into the Children’s Act Amendments.
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Child Health Now launched in 2010 as
World Vision’s five-year global advocacy
programme that aims to contribute to
the reduction in preventable child and
maternal deaths and the achievement of
Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5
by 2015.
The project in South Africa made good
progress towards achieving child wellbeing outcomes in 2012 and raised
awareness of child health issues at various
events and with organisations.
Policy input
The Advocacy Department made strategic policy input into
the review of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV and
AIDS, STIs and TB for 2012-2016. In addition, WVSA used the
Yezingane Network where it is chair and part of the Working
Group to present submissions to the Department of Health
focusing on policy changes in areas or sectors that are dealing
with children who are HIV positive in South Africa. It was noted
that about 60% of the recommendations from the Yezingane
Network are reflected as some of the important changes to the
guiding principles, objectives, interventions and targets of the
final NSP 2012-2016.
Child Health Now
campaign
The initiative is estimated to have impacted 2 330 000
children
(World AIDS Day Report, 2012) making up about 47% of the
5 million target that World Vision SA set in its strategy.
World Vision South Africa was also part of the working group
of the National Action Committee for Children with AIDS
(NACCA) whose secretariat is the Department of Social
Development. Through NACCA, World Vision South Africa
contributed to the National Action Plan for 2012-2016.
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The
Millennium
Development
Goals Summit in Cape Town in May:
participation and exhibition of campaign
materials, as well as being part of a panel
discussion.
•The Christian Aids Bureau of South
Africa (CABSA) Annual General Meeting
in Johannesburg: the team exhibited
materials.
•UNICEF: meetings which culminated
in a partnership with the Limpopo
Provincial Department of Health on
advocacy and social mobilisation for
Vitamin A supplementation following
the identification of Vitamin A deficiency
in Limpopo and Eastern Cape. Due to
capacity constraints, the project centred
on interventions in Limpopo which is a
growth area for World Vision SA. The
ADPs are working with the SA Council
of Churches to ensure that Vitamin
A supplied by UNICEF is distributed
to children through churches, schools,
preschools, drop-in centres and other
early childhood development centres.
•The Free State Provincial Department
of Health maternal and child health unit:
lobbying and engagement meetings were
held, resulting in a working relationship
between the Department of Health and
the Khauhelo ADP in the Free State on
some projects and workshops.
• National Department of Health: lobbying
and engagement meetings were held
which resulted in the establishment of a
working relationship with them in all the
other provinces.
•The Steering Committee of the New
Economic Planning and Development
(NEPAD): discussions resulted in the
involvement of Child Health Now in
the Africa Day for Food and Nutrition
Security. The successful partnership
which has been developed with NEPAD
focuses on advocacy for nutrition and
food security in South Africa and other
southern African countries.World Vision
and the CHN team were invited as key
stakeholders to the planning of the Africa
Day for Food and Nutrition Security
held at the NEPAD headquarters in
Addis Ababa in Ethiopia on 31 October
2012.
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The project worked with Child
Protection and Urban Programming as
well as partners (Orlando East Crèches
Forum, The Nelson Mandela Children’s
Fund, and Johannesburg Emergency
Services) to host events for the National
Child Protection Week.
•A Child Health Now integration
workshop was held in Mangaung ADP,
which assisted the ADP to integrate the
campaign into an on-going 7-11 strategy
on Health under the HHN and other
projects in the ADP.
Parliamentary Advocacy Training
The team in partnership with the SACC attended a parliamentary training
session on public policy-related issues in Cape Town hosted by the Catholic
Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) in September 2012.The training aims
to help civil society get involved and have their voices heard when it
comes to public policy issues, both through parliament at national
and provincial levels.The training was significant in that it showed
the project team members and stakeholders that there is a need
for a policy research unit in WVSA focusing on child and maternal
health, child protection, education as well as gender.
In 2012, surveys revealed that the average number of households
with children that participated in World Vision activities –
nutrition, education and sponsorship – was 50% while the
number of households that were involved with World Vision
was 35%. Children were generally involved with World Vision
through the sponsorship programmes run in the ADPs.
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Child Protection
Operations
Advocating for child protection through partnerships and
community engagement projects completed its first year of the
three year project. The goal is to contribute to the protection
of all children from all forms of abuse within their families in
Ixopo, Umzimkhulu, Giyani and Orlando East by 2014. To this
end, the Child Protection and Advocacy (CPA) Model is being
implemented in three ADPs at this stage as Giyani was still in its
design stage during FY2012.
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The goal of the Citizen Voice and Action project is to contribute
towards improving access to quality child health and education
services by 10 % in six ADPs by 2015.
Discussions to establish and formalise partnerships with
government and other stakeholders engaged in improving child
health and education services were initiated, such as with the
Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa; Mangaung
Metro Municipality and the Free State HIV&AIDS Coalition.
The immediate impact of these relationships is awareness of
Budget Monitoring and Expenditure Tracking (BMET) that
has been created for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from
Mangaung Urban Learning Site (ULS), Khauhelo and Thaba Nchu
in the Free State. The CSOs are now aware of government
budget processes and phases.
The Community Based Organisations (CBOs) from Atlantis,
Mangaung ULS, Khauhelo and Thaba Nchu ADPs have been
trained with the result that trainees are mobilising community
structures such as Ward Committees and Clinic Committees to
educate them on how they should work together to influence
change on issues that undermine the well-being of their children.
Atlantis CVA Coordination team members are taking advantage
of their community radio station. They advocated for a weekly
Monday slot when they educate the community about the need
to come together and speak in a unified voice.
Christian
Commitments
World Vision South Africa continued to work on the spiritual
development of its staff and began implementing its new National
Office strategy from FY12–FY15.To align with this strategy, Christian
Commitments will be part of the Advocacy and Justice for Children
Department.
World Vision South Africa has continued to work with churches to
build and strengthen value-based systems at community and family
levels. All ADPs either established or strengthened the pastors’
fraternals which have brought together pastors and church leaders
from different churches to participate in community development
processes.This incorporates gospel values, as well as Ubuntu values
which means “People are made people through other people”.
All the ADPs have undertaken Christian Commitment activities
relevant to their communities by working with pastors and
developing pastors’ fraternals; training of Congregational Hope
Action Teams (CHATS) in Channels of Hope to care for OVCs;
training pastors in CVA and CP; implementing the Reclaiming the
Wonder of Sexuality (RWS) model within churches; training in
disaster management; engaging pastors in peace building processes
within communities; organising prayer events at schools and within
communities with pastors; extensive spiritual counselling; training in
dealing with drug abuse; and more.
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Networks of Hope
Children report an increased level
of well-being
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South Africa’s high unemployment rates
are even higher in rural areas where
economic opportunities are limited.World
Vision South Africa recorded an average of
58% unemployment when it assessed the
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number of households that were earning
40%
an income; in addition only 57% of the
30%
households indicated that they had access
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Umzimvubu ADP prioritised the linkage of
local farmers to markets and conducting
of business development training with the
aim of increasing household incomes and
food security.
Atlantis ADP facilitated links between
youth and the unemployed with the City
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reporting increased well-being varied, the employability of the community.
but on average only 29% of the children
reported an increased level of well-being. It is noted that access to income does not
The lowest was reported in Atlantis, a necessarily translate into increased access
community that experiences high levels to food. And that the availability of food
of crime and abuse closely linked to drug does not necessarily translate to increased
and alcohol abuse. Nkonkobe recorded child well-being.
the highest level of child well-being despite
the increasing cases of child abuse in Increased levels of child well-being are
that community. In addition only 43% of a combination of a number of factors,
the children reported that they felt they interventions and the underlying sociowere being supported within families and cultural conditions of the area. The
communities.
interaction of various aspects influences
the context, which in turn determines
Mpofu’s evaluation indicated that the the level of child well-being. Intentional
proportion of households that had access integrated solutions are required that
to food was 33%, which was closely examine the underlying relationships
linked to the number of households that among various factors such as income,
practiced backyard food gardening. The food security, attitudes and behaviour as
ADP’s interventions in food security well as their unintended consequences,
directly impacted access to food with a addressing issues of child well-being.
recorded increase in vegetable production
and poultry products.
Through the Networks of Hope (NOH)
programme, community care workers
received training in palliative care, homebased care, child protection, HIV and AIDS
and prevention programmes. They used
their knowledge and skills to care for
orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)
households and OVCs themselves.
Thaba Nchu ADP had about 375
community caregivers whose responsibility
included regular home visits and provision
of services to over 10 000 OVCs. They
also provided services to adult members
of OVC households that were either HIV
positive or co-infected with TB.
School bakery
boosts community
Metz Junior Primary School near Sekororo
Hospital was 54 years old and dilapidated
in 2012, which made teaching and learning
difficult. Kodumela ADP assessed the
school situation and developed a strategy
to help improve the situation. The ADP
found the school had a seldom-used
baking oven and assisted the school
administrators with baking ingredients.
The bakery was run as an incomegenerating project supplying bread to
nearby schools as well as to its teaching
staff, and to the leaners through the school
feeding scheme. The bakery plays a crucial
role in the community and is a major
provider of bakery products for any form
of gathering in the community.
The income from the initiative has
been used to buy school stationery and
other learning materials, and classroom
conditions have been improved. The
concentration span of the learners
improved since they no longer had empty
stomachs and the 2012 school pass rate
increased over the year.
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Reports from
the field
Here follow summarised reports of a
selection of activities within some of the
ADPs to highlight the range of work that
our ADPs are involved in and how they
affect the lives of needy people.
Okhahlamba ADP
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Programme goal: To achieve a
sustained well-being of 152 000 people
(including children and their families) of
Okhahlamba Municipality by 2015.
• Children:The ADP has 4 815 registered
children and 3 482 OVCs.
•Agricultural projects: 364 household
and 37 community gardens. 27 household and 28 community gardens are
practicing crop rotation to eliminate
soil diseases. 18 youth were trained in
agriculture and marketing skills and 67
people were trained in marketing and
business skills. 37 farmers are accessing
markets.
•HIV and AIDS awareness: Through
value based life skills education for
1 200 children in Grades 5-7 in primary
school and Grades 8-12 in high school.
•Health and nutrition: 400 community-
based care givers were trained and
mentored by 17 CBO/NGO trainers in
the Community Integrated Management
of Childhood Illnesses (C-IMCI). The
care givers will reach 16 800 households
in Okhahlamba with prevention, home
care, and care-seeking messages and
practices over the next two years.
•
Brainstorming sessions with Trans
World Radio (TWR) were held on
possible partnerships on child and
maternal health as well as media
collaboration on child health issues.
Through these, TWR is partnering with
Okhahlamba ADP in airing community
conversations on Health, HIV/ AIDS and
Nutrition (HHN).
•Spiritual nurture: The Okhahlamba
Christian Council was formed with
local pastors and is attending to the
community’s spiritual nurturing needs
and issues affecting children.
Nkonkobe ADP
•Programme goal: To improve the wellbeing of 5 000 children and family
members of Nkonkobe by 2025.
• Registered children: The ADP has
registered 3 516 children, making
Nkonkobe a viable partner for sponsors.
•Partnerships: The ADP strengthened
partnerships with the community and
relevant government departments such
as Department of Social Development
(DOSD), Department of Health (DOH),
Department of Education (DOE),
Department of Home Affairs, and the
Department of Agriculture (DOA).
• The Nkonkobe Municipality experienced
gale-force wind that destroyed 239
houses. The ADP contributed 200
blankets to affected households. The
ADP is part of the Provincial Disaster
Management Advisory Forum.
•The ADP approached the DOH for
user-friendly clinics and facilitated health
sessions to encourage community
members to attend clinic. The result
is that children attend the clinic for
immunisation and health-related issues.
•The ADP, Umthiza and the DOA
collaborated in the development of
19 poultry and vegetable gardening
community projects (involving 180
households). 1 100 children benefited
from the produce and income generated
by the projects.
Mbhashe ADP
• Programme goal: To improve the quality
of life of 5 000 children and their families
in Mbhashe Local Municipality by 2025.
•Primary projects: Sponsorship and
local economic development through
agriculture.
• Workers: Five development workers in
22 villages.
•Sponsored children: 2 205 sponsored
children (1 103 boys, 1 102 girls).
• Spiritual nurture:The ADP distributed 2
78 bibles to 11 schools which are used
for morning devotions.
•Health: Working together with the
DOH, 289 children were vaccinated
•Children’s rights: In partnership with
the local police, the DOSD and the
SA Social Security Agency, children’s
rights campaigns were conducted with
256 children.
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Income generation: Training was
conducted in partnership with the
DOA to encourage backyard gardens
and crop, poultry and livestock farming.
We have 12 poultry projects and three
vegetable projects. 80 households are
involved with 130 children benefiting.
•Mbhashe ADP is a member of the
Provincial
Disaster
Management
Centre task team and was involved in
the drafting of the local Community
Disaster Preparedness Plan (CDPP).
Family helped
after fire
Nobanzi Zide is grandmother to twoyear-old Siyamthanda, Ahlume aged five,
and Athule aged nine. Their home burnt
down on 8 August and their clothes and
belongings were destroyed leaving them
with the school uniforms they were
wearing. Apparently the children had
been playing with matches when they
accidentally set the home on fire.
The ADP responded immediately and
organised groceries for the family and
additional school uniforms for the two
older children who are registered with us.
The ADP, the Community Development
Worker and Social Development arranged
for replacement birth certificates and ID
documents for the family to ensure they
remained on the government database for
continued access to their child and old
age grants. The community also helped
with emotional support and second-hand
clothes for the children.
Through this intervention the ADP
restored some dignity to the family and
ensured that the well-being of the children
was guaranteed.
Thusalushaka ADP
•Programme goal: To contribute to
the well-being of children including
registered children in Thusalushaka
ADP’s 24 communities by 2024.
• Registered children: 4 036
• Projects: WASH, Health, Education and
Sponsorship projects were integrated.
The ADP facilitated health and hygiene
training with the departments of water
affairs and health to four CBOs, reaching
22 500 people in the communities. The
WASH team also reached 1 600 boys
and 2 400 girls in primary schools and
facilitated the establishment of seven
children WASH teams that have reached
1 500 other children.
•80 people were trained in latrine
construction following the Department
of Human Settlement standards.
•Seven boreholes were constructed to
facilitate access to safe drinking water to
the targeted communities. 3 100 people
(including 1 100 youth and children)
benefited.
• Disabled: 3% of people reached by the
ADP were disabled.
•
Child Protection: An educational
awareness on child protection was
conducted in partnership with police,
Social Workers, parents, and teachers –
and 5 000 children were reached.
•Income generation: 44 RC households
were given start-up packages for chicken
farming and parents were encouraged
to work with the children to ensure
sustainability.
A group of 30 RC households were given
30 female goats in 15 villages under the
operating jurisdictions of Thusalushaka
ADP to start a goat farming project. Nine
baby goats were born from these. 34 RCs
attended training on how to handle their
chickens and goats.
Umzimvubu ADP
• Programme goal: To contribute towards
the improved well-being of 30 000
community members in Mabenyeng
Kingdom by 2017.
•Direct participants: 8 588 men and
women, boys and girls (including 5 814
sponsorship funded and 2 702 grant
funded OVCs)
•HIV and AIDS: The ADP worked with
secondary schools and clinics on HIV
prevention and reached more than
1 285 community members, contributing
to a 26% decrease in HIV prevalence in
the area.
• Spiritual nurture: The ADP conducted a
Sunday Schools competition for 2 500
registered and non-registered children.
•School sports: The ADP ran a school
sports competition. 4 000 children
from 42 schools participated in various
sporting codes including volleyball,
soccer, netball, athletics, and softball.
•
Cultural day: This was held on
24 September in partnership with local
youth minders for a total of 700 children.
•Income generation: More than 70
OVCs were given a sheep each to raise
and establish a herd to help fund their
futures.
630 vegetable seeds were distributed to 32
community villages of to improve healthy
eating.Three vegetable projects have been
supported with water pumps to enable
planting of crops throughout the year.
20 people from the vegetable projects
were trained in financial management,
and a further 10 people were trained in
basic book keeping, organisational financial
management, planning and how to grow
funds even from low income levels.
Umzimkhulu ADP
• Programme goal: To contribute towards
a sustained well-being of boys and girls
between the ages of 0-18 years in our
area by 2015.
•Direct participants: 10 660 men and
women, boys and girls.
•Education: The ADP supported two
schools (Grades 2 and 3) with learning
aids to assist in the improvement of
reading, writing and numeracy skills.
• Three homework clubs were established
in one secondary school.
•Sports: The ADP organised a sports
tournament for 867 boys and girls from
27 high schools.
•Child protection: 20 ADP staff and
CBO members were trained in child
protection and 35 traditional leaders
attended a presentation on children’s
rights.
•Income generation: 22 community
members were trained in vegetable
production techniques, benefiting 164
individuals including 119 children.
Ixopo ADP
•Programme goal: To improve the wellbeing of children in 3 853 families of
Ixopo ADP community by 2015.
• Sponsored children: 3 279
•
Education: 209 children from 19
primary schools participated in the
Maths and Science Olympiad which
has been held annually since FY09.
Another 754 children from 19 primary
schools participated in the Readathon
Competition held during READ Week in
September. The ADP was congratulated
on these activities by the educators.
•
Homework Clubs established and
functional in 19 primary schools.
•Sports: The ADP’s sports tournament
brought together 420 children
from primary and high schools who
participated in soccer, netball, and volley
ball competitions.
• Child protection: 30 parents participated
in Child Protection Advocacy training.
•HIV and AIDS: Good progress is
reported in implementing Community
IMCI pilot, coordinated by a task team
comprised of World Vision, Woza Moya
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Project, DOH, Edzimkulu Project and TB
HIV Care. Pregnant women are now
visiting the clinic regularly and children
under the age of 24 months have been
weighed at least once a month. 48 CCGs
trained in Infant & Young Child feeding in
FY2011 this year reached a total of 272
women.
•Nutrition: A refresher course was
conducted for 30 home based caregivers
and 18 ECD were trained in nutrition.
Kodumela ADP
• Programme goals: By 2015 in Kodumela
ADP to improve the well-being of
children and the communities; to
increase economic development income
and food security for 35 000 people;
to contribute to the transformation
of 4 100 registered children, their
families, communities and sponsors;
and to improve the health and hygiene
standards of 5 000 households.
• Registered children: 4 838.
•Food parcels: The ADP provided food
parcels to five drop in centres benefiting
758 OVC, as well as one disabled centre
and one old age centre not yet funded
by government.
•Nutrition: The ADP identified and
monitored malnourished children, and
supplied food for 25 children who
were found to be malnourished during
Clinical Nutrition Assessment.
• Infectious diseases:The project provided
1 785 people with information on
waterborne infectious diseases through
the Cholera Prevention Campaigns,
information on health and hygiene, and
cholera training to caregivers.
• Income generation: Through partnering
with IDT, the ADP secured a second
term contract for 350 people to be paid
for doing daily chores at their projects
which include poultry, piggery and
beadwork.
20 gardens were established and a
target of 10 tonnes of produce, mainly
tomatoes and onions, was achieved.
100 farmers were trained on how to
use agrarian methods of farming.
• Child protection: 1 160 parents and care
givers were educated in child protection
in 10 villages.
•HIV and AIDS: Through the HIV and
AIDS project, home based caregivers
provided care and support to 1 098
chronically ill clients in their homes.
•An intervention focusing on care and
support of OVCs was carried out.
The NOH site supports over 8 500
vulnerable children from about 2 834
households.
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Mangaung Urban
Programme
•Programme core mandate: To focus
on the marginalised communities in
Mangaung especially OVCs, people living
with disability, and women and children
in the informal settlement areas on the
outskirts of Mangaung.
•
Programme goal: To contribute
towards improved responsiveness and
accountability in the delivery of child
protection services as well as health,
nutrition and HIV and AIDS services in
Mangaung metro municipality.
•Forum: The programme facilitated the
establishment of the Mangaung Forum
which brought together 12 CBOs for
the purpose of planning and engaging on
child well-being issues and introduced
the forum to the premier’s office.
• Mangaung forum members are part of
the CPA and CVA teams they have been
all trained in understanding policy and
policy engagements.
• Workshop: A workshop on the Sexual
Offences Act was coordinated with
the NPA and brought together the
DOSD, the DOH, victim empowerment
centres, SAPS, and court preparation
officers. 11 CBOs from Mangaung and
others from Khauhelo and Thaba Nchu
ADPs attended.
•Christian
Commitment: Through
the Child Health Now campaign, the
programme sent two pastors from
the Mangaung Forum to a national
summit on maternal and child health to
sensitise faith communities to respond
to maternal and child health.
Mbekweni ADP
• Programme goal: To improve the
economic, social, health and nutrition
and HIV status of the communities in
Mbekweni, Fairyland and the Farm area
by 2018.
• Registered children: 3 570.
• Nutrition: The ADP trained 84 mothers
of children 0-59 months and 68
preschool teachers and soup kitchen
staff in basic nutrition training and
preventable diseases.
The ADP established 10 soup kitchens
providing nutrition to 2 412 children.
•Hygiene: Children were trained in the
basic art of hand washing which has
led to a reduction of absenteeism of
children from school due to illness. For
six months only 39 of the 4 119 children
between 0-59 months were diagnosed
with diarrhoea.
•Health: In collaboration with the
DOH, the ADP visited 35 preschools
and 239 children were immunised,
de-wormed and given micro nutrient
supplementation.
• Disabled: The ADP enabled 89 disabled
people to attend an 18-month skills
development training programme,
funded by the National Skills Fund.
• HIV and AIDS: The ADP supported 546
PLWHA with nutritional supplements.
5 118 PLWHA, 1 612 PLWHIV, and 360 TB
patients received home base care.
A roof over
their heads
A family of three (two children and their
mother) were living in a semi-completed
shack and when strong winds and heavy
rain blew off their roof. They took shelter
with a neighbour but couldn’t stay long as
the home was already accommodating six
people. The mother was forced to send
her children out of the area to stay with
a relative. The ADP traced the mother
and learned of the plight the family found
themselves in.
The ADP held meetings with the area
councillor and assessment was done. The
ADP bought building material and the
local municipality provided nails, door,
windows and community members who
volunteered to assist. The shack was put
up by community members in one day and
the children came back to their mother
and a proper shelter.
Education
Aiming to promote quality age appropriate education for children
Approximately ‘9 million South Africans,
including 4.7 million children, are functionally
illiterate … this figure alone amounts to
almost 20% of the national population.’ The
report
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In Umvoti ADP where an ECD project
is being implemented, 87 children
between 3-5 years of age were exposed
to psychomotor education, which is a
holistic programme that prepares the
child physically, emotionally, socially, and
cognitively for the learning process. In
FY2012, the ADP found that more children
were attending pre-school and that school
attendance increased. The improvement
was attributed to the level of participation
due to instant interest among children.The
ADP also states that parents and guardians
have reported a drastic change in the
behaviour of children, stating that children
are now able to teach other children not to
fight and hurt themselves.
One parent commented that “children
have also learned to be patient with one
another during play time; they have also
become responsible and are able to control
their emotions, resolving conflicts through
negotiation not fighting.” (Umvoti, 2012).
Atlantis
Atlantis reported a 79.9% participation in
ECD centres and that 52.9% of children
in ECDs accessed health and nutrition
interventions. This was accompanied by
an “increased access to learning resource
materials in ECD centres” a process that
would bear fruit in the coming years.
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Health, HIV/AIDS,
Nutrition
Through its HIV awareness programme, WVSA conducts HIV
Counselling and Testing campaigns in partnership with DOH and
other stakeholders, offering free counselling and testing to the
communities.
Four ADPs were assessed in FY12 on the levels of HIV and AIDS
awareness among youth and adults. On average 81% of the youth
and 75% of adults were fully aware of HIV/AIDS. However, the
percentage of women who reported that they were offered and
accepted counselling and testing for HIV and TB during their
most recent pregnancies and received their test was 56%, which
is low in contrast to the awareness levels that were recorded in
the assessments. More needs to be done to effectively contribute
towards increased access to prevention of mother-to-child
transmission (PMTCT) programme in the ADPs.
Ironically, despite high rates of PMTCT, the rate of exclusive
breastfeeding up to six months of age for babies in South Africa is
only 8% – cited to be one of the lowest in the world. The WHO
has recommended that exclusive breastfeeding for babies up to
six months is optimal and the SA government has recommended
that parents practice it from birth. In the assessments conducted
in four of the ADPs, the average percentage of children aged 0-5
months exclusively breast fed in the last six months was 70% for
the four ADPs, a percentage far higher than the national average
of 8%.
World Vision health interventions such as the 7/11 model
promote education and awareness on exclusive breastfeeding.
The organisation intentionally promotes exclusive breastfeeding
as an intervention for child growth and well-being and has ensured
that the 7/11 campaigns are intensified particularly among young
mothers to ensure the health of their newborns.
Umzimkulu
In Umzimkulu ADP inroads were made towards health and
well-being of children with the increased partnership with the
Decreased spread of
infectious diseases
among children
0-5 years
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local NGOs and CBOs also involved in health. The ADP Lead
Development Facilitator said:
“the communities [were] responding to voluntary testing
campaigns that [helped] change attitudes and behaviours which
are key contributors towards the prevention of transmission of
HIV from pregnant mothers to children.”
Umvoti
Umvoti ADP mentioned “there was an increase in the number of
PLWHIV that [were] now accessing home care and psychosocial
support services”. The NOH programme adopted a familycentred approach in which 67 community care workers worked
with 1 372 HIV positive and TB co-infected adults, providing them
with palliative care and support. Effort was made to support
adults mainly in OVC households that were either HIV positive
or co-infected with TB.
Essential vaccines
According to the Department of Health, 96% of South African
children receive all necessary vaccinations; however the World
Health Organisation (WHO) says that only 64% of the children
actually receive all vaccinations.
In Okhahlamba ADP the percentage of children that received
age appropriate immunisation was 75%, a figure close to the 64%
used by WHO and UNICEF. Immunisation of children between
0-59 months is a national government responsibility executed
through the Department of Health’s Expanded Programme on
Immunisation (EPI).
While emphasis on immunisation has been imminent in the ADPs
it was also noticeable in FY12 that improved nutrition would
contribute to decreased vulnerability among 0-59-month children.
For the 1 200 households that were assisted with fencing for
instance in Umvoti, the ADP immediately noted that they started
backyard gardens in which they grew vegetables throughout
the year.
Psychotherapy helps
depressed youngsters
The high number of children in South Africa who have lost one or
both parents to AIDS means that parental illness and death have had
a profound effect on the emotional and psychological wellbeing of
the affected youngsters. However, little has been done to document
programmes that may address the mental health of affected children.
In 2012, a USAID-funded initiative was conducted in conjunction
with Tulane University in New Orleans, and World Vision South
Africa to contribute to the evidence base on psychological support
programming. The initiative provided a detailed case study of WVSA’s
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Groups (IPT-G) intervention for
vulnerable adolescents in the Eastern Cape. IPT-G is a mental health
treatment that uses interpersonal psychotherapy techniques, such as
self-reflection, talking about experiences and feelings, and self-directed
problem solving, in a peer support setting guided by a trained facilitator.
World Vision South Africa began implementing IPT-G for vulnerable
adolescents in Limpopo and Free State provinces in 2011 and in the
Eastern Cape in 2012.
The focal site of this case study was the Eastern Cape, where World
Vision South Africa implemented IPT-G for 685 adolescents through
two of their programme sites in 2012. Facilitators were recruited and
trained locally to provide IPT-G to groups of seven to 15 adolescents,
aged 14 to 17 years, who were segregated by gender.
The facilitators were trained in psychotherapy and communication
techniques to prepare them for working with the youth. The
model was adapted for the local context, incorporating words and
descriptions in the local language to adequately depict depression and
IPT-G in a sensitive, culturally appropriate, non-stigmatising way. Eligible
participants were invited to attend IPT-G, which involved a once a week
60 to 90 minute group psychotherapy session for a total of 16 weeks.
The intervention was successful at reaching youth in under-served
areas where mental health services were otherwise not available. In
addition to providing direct therapy, IPT-G served as a gateway from
which youth were referred to other services, and helped to incubate
sustainable peer support networks among group members. The
inclusion of caregivers through individual and group meetings was
important in securing their approval for adolescents’ participation in
the intervention, and further provided an opportunity for interested
caregivers to receive psychological support themselves.
Through IPT-G, World Vision has brought a scalable and accessible
mental health intervention into communities where this would
otherwise be unavailable.
One of IPT-G’s most notable successes was that it provided an
opportunity for youth to talk about emotional problems in a culture
that does not traditionally encourage young peoples’ individual
expression. Indeed, many of the groups decided to form social clubs
and continue meeting after the 16 IPT-G sessions were completed.
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Humanitarian
Emergency Affairs
highlights
Xenophobia in Thaba Nchu
On Sunday 1 July 2012, Thaba Nchu in the Free State, east of Bloemfontein, riots broke
out and foreign-owned shops were looted. These attacks on foreign nationals were
perpetrated by criminal and xenophobic elements and resulted in the compromised
safety of the community and the displacement of foreign nationals.
On 2 July, the attacks spread into the Central Business District where shops were
vandalised and stock from the shops stolen. Given the situation, the police imposed an
undeclared curfew resulting in the shutdown of the town.
2011
World Vision International
R 0106 088 148 R 0105 522 237
Local fundraising income
R 0 010 392 016 R 0006 500 049
Total Revenue
R 116 480 164
Operating expenses
The ADP provided daily status updates to the National Office and profiled Registered
Children to make sure that they were not involved or affected by the situation. By
Thursday afternoon the situation began to normalise.
The ADP determined to review and amend its CDPP to ensure that it includes xenophobia
and insurrections as one of the potential risks in the area requiring response. The ADP
aimed to engage with communities on peace building initiatives so as to prevent this from
happening again. The ADP also determined to host a security training workshop for staff
and key partners.
Revenue sources
2012
R 112 022 286
ADP staff were briefed about the security situation and were required to make a call log
with the ADP Manager to indicate their whereabouts and to determine if it was safe to
come to the office.
A total of 90 foreign nationals of Bangladeshi descent were affected in Thaba Nchu.
The ADP engaged with the Disaster Coordinator from the Mangaung Municipality to
determine areas of intervention. After conducting a thorough analysis and ensuring that
there was no duplication of intervention, the ADP provided provisions for breakfast for
three days.The ADP continued to monitor the situation and respond with guidance from
the National Office’s Security Advisor and the HEA Advisor.
2012
Financial
2012
ProgrammesR 0090 130 118
R 0086 080 037
FundraisingR 0001 250 899
R 0001 495 549
Management & general
R 0023 496 434
R 0025 400 480
Total operating expenses R 114 877 451
R 112 976 066
RevenueRevenue
SourcesSources
World VisionWorld
International
Vision International
Local fundraising
Localincome
fundraising income
6%
2011
6%
Operating
Operating
Expenses
Expenses
ProgrammesProgrammes
Fundraising Fundraising
ManagementManagement
& general & general
23%
23%
1%
94%
94%
1%
76%
76%
In 2012, 77% of World Vision’s total operating expenses was used for development programmes that benefit children, families and
communities in need.
While 2012 was a challenging financial year for World Vision South Africa, we give thanks for donations that exceeded R 112 million
and ministry impact grew strongly. Total revenue in fiscal 2012 declined by 4% in total, mostly due to a 60% decline in local revenue
funding sources in a difficult economic environment for NGOs. An operational restructure brought about savings and a decline of 2%
in operating expenses, despite a 16% increase in fundraising expenses.
View our complete consolidated financial statements online at www.worldvision.co.za
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