support groups 26 may 2011

Gracie and Phindani visited Lwandile, Mamolweni, Sakisizwe, Kanyolwethu, Sinyololo, Khanyisa and Pumlani support groups this month. Sakisizwe and Lwandile received two visits each.
Another office is being built at Lwandile. Ntibane's office is almost completed.

hbc 26 may 2011

mngcibe hbc has all received temba and santa training. their office is all completed and their furniture delivered. they are working very well and saving 700 rand/month to spend on school uniforms, shoes, blankets, etc for OVCs.
pumlani hbc also received furniture. they are busy in their garden, which looks beautiful w/ cabbage, spinach, beetroot, onion, peas, beans. they had an hct awareness day where they took 10 hiv positive people and gave them meat, cabbage and soup packets. they will have another awareness day for 25 ovcs in July where they will give socks and school ties.
philisa has all their registration forms into social development and have opened an account. they are just waiting now for social development to take them on.

hbc 3/1/11

Still have not received a letter of resignation from Lindelwa. So, she is officially fired from Transcape, as she has not performed to her action plan and hasn't officially resigned.
The forum meeting last month was disappointing. Mdumbi showed up on time, Philisa came 45 minutes late and Mngcibe came an hour and a half late and found the meeting finished already. Siyakhula didn't show up at all.
The three groups said they are working just fine w/o Lindelwa.
Gracie will be on leave from Jan 12th-Feb 16th. When she gets back, she will do a workshop w/ Philisa on the report forms at their request.

support group 3/1/11

Tafini support group is all finished building their support group office and will be meeting in it as of next week.
Siyavuya is at roof level of their building.
The new support group is getting their letter from the chief for their land for their building.
5 groups will be getting water tanks and fences in this new year.
Pumlani received five food parcels (boxes) from a group in Germany, as well as clothes and toys for OVCs.

On Tues, Nov 30th, the HBC coordinator resigned. Transcape is still waiting for her resignation letter.
On 15 nov, philisa's roof blew off in a wind storm.
Philisa identified OVCs in their area for SPF using their survey. SPF has collected the surveys.
Siyakhula was audited and everything came out well.
Siyakhula had two awareness campaigns in two churches, methodist at No. 4 and methodist at Ngqeleni.
Mdumbi has filled out their supplier papers and turned them into SD. Now they are just waiting.
Mdumbi is helping the builders who are building their new office, which is nearly finished now.
Mngcibe is finished with their constitution.
Mngcibe will get training from SANTA and Temba in the beginning of Jan.

Mdumbi HBC has received 20 chairs, a nice big meeting table and a cupboard with drawers for their office furniture. The construction for their office rondavel has also started and is currently underway.
Mdumbi is also doing a survey on registering OVCs. Roger Hogg is coordinating that survey and hopefully an OVC project will be the result of this survey in how to best assist OVCs.
Philisa HBC is waiting for Social Development to give them a computer. They turned in an application last month and now are just waiting for SD to deliver.

october 13, 2010

Siyakhula gave out 72 school uniforms to OVCs this week.
Philisa is assisting another NPO, Small Projects Foundation (SPF) on registering OVCs. There was a workshop today to go over the surveys to make sure everything is understood. The surveys are in English and the carers don't speak or read english. So it was translated into Xhosa.
Having difficulties with Lindelwa, the hbc coordinator. She's refusing to talk about why she's upset about the program for the NAPWA launch. She just says she is not going and her carers are also not going to go.
Mdumbi bought their office rondavel for 15,000 rand.