Siyabonga Drop-In Centre


Background

Siyabonga Drop in Centre is an NPO that was founded by Mrs. P. Makoro in 2008. It was officially registered in 22 January 2010. The NPO Number is 075-167. The organisation caters for 336 Orphans and vulnerable children from 0 to 18 years and 300 children are funded by The Department of Social Development, starting from 1st July 2014.

The development of the community largely depends on how well we look after the young ones, SMPT took an initiative together with the Social Development in ensuring that the children are taken care of through the following programmes;

  •  Psychosocial Support - support given to beneficiaries physically and mentally.
  •  Educational Support - assisting them with their school work.
  •  Support Groups - support for each other will lead to a healthy and strong community.
  •  Activities - children learn easily through playing and also participating in other activities such as; playing marimba, music, traditional dance, debates etc.
  •  Nutritional Support - no child deserves to go through life without food.

This programme is mostly aimed at assisting vulnerable children in giving them hope and love that they richly deserve.

The programme starts from 14:30PM to 16:00PM, Mondays to Fridays

Successful Stories

  •  More than 300 hundred children were screened with HIVSA Screening programme.
  •  30 beneficiaries successfully attendant the Adolescence Programme.
  •  15 parents successfully completed 10 therapy sessions which ran for 10 months.
  •  Beneficiaries received dignity packs and school shoes.
  •  3 successfully foster care grant and 2 disability grant.
  •  1 successfully grandparents received custody of her grandchild.
  •  1 Social Auxiliary Workers and Administrator were trained on CBIMS.
  •  3 Social Auxiliary Workers; Administrator and 2 Community Caregivers were trained for referral.
  •  1 Project Manager and 2 Community Caregivers were trained for HCBC Management training.
  •  2 Social Auxiliary Workers and Administrator were trained for Thogomelo Supportive Supervision Skills development Programme.
  •  2 Social Auxiliary Workers and EPWP Coordinator were trained on Thogomelo Child Protection Skills development Programme.
  •  2 Social Auxiliary Workers and EPWP Coordinator were trained on Thogomelo.Psychosocial Support Skills development Programme.
  •  Our target number is 400 beneficiaries and we managed to reach that number but the challenge is that beneficiaries parents do not want to come to the centre to register their children or to do intake, some parents do not bring all the documents needed for intake, but so far we managed to reach our target and thanks to the caregivers. They have done a great job by doing home visits and identifying children who are in need of our services.
  •  Going back to lunch boxes also contributed a lot in reaching our target.

Challenges

  •  We don’t have enough space for our beneficiaries activities.
  •  We also need more resources for our activities.

Service Rendered

To provide psychologically need to the orphans and vulnerable children including food, clothing, educational support e.g. homework supervision and parental skills.

Nutrition
We are providing daily meals twice per day for orphans and vulnerable children.

Home Visit
Caregivers and social Auxiliary workers visit the homes of our beneficiaries to cheek whether things at home are going well and also to make sure our beneficiaries have all the documents needed to apply for social grants e.g. to assist with foster care grant application, also to check the performance of our beneficiaries at school.

Basic Counselling
Social Auxiliary workers do one on one session with beneficiaries and parents /guardian of orphans and vulnerable children, also do referral to other stakeholders.

Recreational Activities
Our beneficiaries are doing activities like marimba, drum majorettes, traditional dance to keep them healthy mentally and physically.

Support Groups
To assist HIV positive people to accept their status, to adhere with their medication, to support them. WE also assist parents with parenting skills and knowledge on how to talk to their children about issues affecting them.

Adolescent Programme
This is a programme that assist adolescents how to deal with challenges and changes in their lives and to know how to take good decisions.

Health Screening
All our beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries are screened to check whether they live a healthy life by checking their weight, height, eyes and ears so that we can refer them to health facilities when necessary.

Internet Access
Our beneficiaries are allowed to use internet when doing their schoolwork or assignments for free.

Therapy Sessions
We are working with a clinical Social Worker from Childline who assist our beneficiaries and our staff members with therapy sessions and debriefing.

Referrals
Beneficiaries are referred to different institutions if necessary e.g. Police Stations, Home Affairs, SASSA etc.

Awareness Campaigns
We always do awareness in our community making them aware of different kinds of infections and dangerous diseases and how to prevent them.

Computer Literacy
Beneficiaries are taught computer skills.

Target Areas

  •  Orange Farm Extensions 1, 3, 4 and 10
  •  Part of Lakeside

Target Group

  •  Orphans and Vulnerable children from 0 -18 years.