THE PROJECT GOAL
The Project aims at equipping parents and families to strengthen the fabric of society by eliminating child abuse and preserving the family unit by offering workshops in the various areas, counseling and support in poverty stricken and deprived communities.
THE PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES
Objective 1:
Conduct Parenting Courses in order to strengthen families and communities and thus ensuring a better life and future for children.
Expected Results:
- Families that are restored to wholeness and that are functioning healthily
- Decrease in child abuse and child neglect
- Decrease in children that feel frustrated and who live very sad lives due to wrong parenting
- Children whose dreams can be fulfilled as they are treated with respect and wisdom
- Decrease in number of children removed from families
- Parents equipped with parenting skills
Objective 2:
Ensure families and family members are strengthened through counseling on a personal basis. (Many welfare organisations do not provide assistance on this level, as personal and consistent counseling will be given to families until change in destructive behaviour is attained)
Expected results:
- Restored families
- Abusers that are no longer abusers, but have become restored and are functioning well within the family
- Fulfilled and well-functioning families
Support systems for families who find themselves in difficult situations
- Stronger communities with less heartache.
- Less children that find themselves on the street as a result of dysfunctional families.
- Less children that become involved in crime.
- Women that are fulfilled and that can in turn reach out to the communities they live in as they themselves are no longer at risk – decrease in wife abuse
- A system where volunteers and professional people work hand in hand in a holistic approach
- Decrease in number of children removed from families
- Parents equipped with the necessary coping skills
Objective 3:
AIDS Awareness and Support Groups & Victim Empowerment Awareness in the under-privileged communities across the Eastern Cape
Expected results
- Safer communities
- Women & children, especially teenagers – more aware of dangers and how to avoid it
- Community members that know what to do during a crisis
Effective intersectoral services
- Involved communities
- Protected victims
- Protected children
- Restorative justice
- Decrease in domestic violence
- Improved family functioning
- With regard to AIDS – prevent the stigmatization of the disease
- Support systems to PWA (persons with AIDS) through informed family members and friends
- Personal counseling will ensure that PWA can cope better with the disease
Objective 4:
Implement the “Family Preservation Project” in underdeveloped communities in and around Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape).
Establish a multi-disciplinary 24 hour, One-stop Child Abuse Crisis intervention service in the communities.
Expected Results
- Trained service providers
- Aggressive activists for the care of children and their protection
- Services extended to neighbouring communities by these trained trainers
- Mobilise communities to get involved
- Project development at grassroots level
- Care systems/programmes reaching children in need of physical and health care support at family level
- Collegial assistance and support received by surviving family members
- Awareness and willingness to protect children (A HOLISTIC APPROACH)
- Bereavement counseling received by families
- Extension of services to previously disadvantaged unserviced communities
- Programme sustainability by volunteers – through the “feel the situation” basis
- Information obtained on a one-to-one basis to help restructure the services of the Programmes
- Community volunteers (home-based care givers) acting as extension of project
- Programme sustained through community involvement
- Information obtained on one-to-one basis will ensure that individuals not reached through awareness programme are reached
- Care programme reaching the needy and sick in their environment
- Services accessible because they will be provided by locally selected volunteers, evenly spread in all target communities
- Preventing of death of PWA from opportunistic diseases
- Prolonged immune system of our PWA (person with AIDS)
- Care systems/programmes reaching children in need of physical and health care support at family level
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