Malaika Orphanage Center (MOC) is a community service organization founded in South Africa to protect, develop, and provide service to young people and meet their needs and interests through sheltering the homeless, comforting, assisting and supporting HIV/AIDS infected and affected orphan and the vulnerable children
Many children have been and continue to be traumatized by the loss of their parents. In South Africa it’s the order of the day to find grandparents surrounded by a fleet of grandchildren, families headed by adolescents, dying adults being nursed by their children and children scattered among relatives
As result, many people are considered to be living in poverty and most of these people are below the age of eighteen. Poverty has a direct effect on people’s lives, as poor people have little access to health services, education, and many other very important things.
Major obstacles to child survival, development, protection and participation in South Africa include lack of food, shelter, health care and education. The UN convention on the right of children contains rights relating to every aspect
Orphans need care, including Feeding, Health and sanitation, Vocational trainings and life skills, Emotional/psychosocial support, counseling, Recreations, Religious support, Scholastic materials, beddings, utensils, transport to health units, a roof over their head and Education that work as a safety net in the Childs life. With out supporting and empowering orphans, in the future they will live as beggars on the streets
MOC gives freedom to young people to think about opportunities that can develop their selves Physically, Mentally, Culturally and Spiritually. Since South Africa has so many cultures including foreign ones, MOC works in close collaboration with other organization to improve and support the development of local community projects, cross-culture exchange and international understanding among the community members. For example mentor volunteers Uganda, south african red CrossRed Cross, IHEYO, Earth Corps, ,EWANET, Africa Alive, , Rural Health ,zimbabwe work camps association, and many others.
OUR ROLE is to build the capacity of young people by encouraging and involving them in decision making, participate in activities that develop the community, Express their views, share information, experience, challenges, and to put a bridge between adults and young by organizing volunteer projects and open discussion together MOC brings young people together as a family with no differences. MOC staff members must ever be seeking opportunities to do good, create and stimulate awareness of people in distress and to educate them .In this way, by the Grace of God truly men open doors to hearts enlist interests of indifferent ones and finally leads others to know God as their creator.
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Malaika Orphanage Center is composed of six main departments. A coordinator heads each department. The coordinator promotes and oversees the implementation and supervises its programs to MOC objectives.
The 6 Departments are:
1. COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION 3. MALAIKA ORPHANAGE TEENS CLUB
HIV/AIDS Awareness /adolescent reproductive health.
Community Development program
MOC children center.
Drug abuse.
!) MOC community Healthy education
In this Department we participate in the AIDS prevention, control, promote behavior change and communication for safer sex and practices. We provide home-based support for HIV/AIDS infected and affected orphans,. We Address reproductive Health issue e.g. Family planning to the young parents (under 18 mothers and fathers) pregnancies etc. We advocate and campaigns in the fight against infantile diseases that needlessly kill millions of children each year.
Our objectives aim at
· Encouraging young people to wait participating in sexual activities which destroys their future and makes them become street children and helpless parents,
· Increasing secondary abstinence i.e. avoiding of intercourse among unmarried youth and young adults so as to prevent early pregnancy. And the spread of HIV /AIDS among young people which increases the number of orphans in South Africa.
· Creating awareness among the community about the mother to child transmission so as to avoid newborn babies getting the virus. Increasing martial fidelity, partnership reduction and reduction in sexual activity and violence among young people, youth and general population.
· Observe the Human rights of children and provide service to children affected and infected by violence to recover from experience of trauma and violence.
· Provide public awareness campaigns and community sensitization on dangers of Drugs and other addictions that lead to HIV/AIDS.
· We help young people to:
1. Avoid risky behaviors that lead to drug addiction and HIV.
2. To organize peer groups so that they can carry out drama, discussion, sports and voluntary work in their communities that can make them busy and take their time learning new skills.
3 .We help young people understand their sexual development, develop their life skills and to grow into and as happy responsible adults
4. We offer preventive services and care to youth and children infected and affected. . by HIV and drugs.
Others activities include: Hygiene, sanitation, Nutrition.
2 MALAIKA ORPHANAGE TEENS CLUB
MOC teens club is a club that promotes MOC Goals in schools and youth groups and around the community. The TEENS club has program targeting young people to promote positive non-violent images of masculinity and program targeting young girls to manage violence and to promote self-esteem. It also helps parents/ guardians to talk to children about their performance in school, being safe in school and preventing or reporting cases of defilement.
4.The programs targets the cooperation between parents, children, and guardians by organizing open discussion together which helps them sharing and express their views.
The responsibility of caring for sick adults and children goes mainly to young girls and women. So young people start to become caregivers
in their early age. Malaika Orphanage feels the strain of AIDS and needs emotional, psychological and physical and spiritual support. Young girls need to go back to school after all this psychological torturer. MOC TEENS club their gives psychological support to fellow young people who are being strained by this situation. E.g. by counseling and guiding them. And to provide super vision to families and country members to support Youth friendly services to improve knowledge, attitude and communication skills
The program is designed to provide health services in communities and homes that adopt our vulnerable, infected and affected children. E.g. training on PIASCY and life skills, peer education guidance and counseling, promotion of girls’ retention and completion. (Sanitary materials, separate latrine for girls with washing facilities and protection from abuse) Hygiene (hand washing promotion, (school suppliers e.g. soap and others)
In this department the teenagers get support technical support and guidance to discus about the principles of their character development.
The teen’s club has got trained junior counselors who promote the junior, young and youth peer clubs, through music dance and drama activities where the teens get promoting physical condition and hygiene. Here they establish links and partnership between instruments Manufacturers to provide instruments that can help them teach others about HIV/AIDS through music dance and drama.
They also get access to information and services.
· The teens club gives psychological support to parents, schools, and communities that adopt fellow vulnerable and orphan children by sharing the experience of their living, expressing their views throw peer groups, youth group, counseling guides, so as to implement life skills and peer education activities.
· This Department is designed for young people from 10-18 years, including Students, Children, and youth in and out of School.
Young people join this club because its program features activities that help young people meet their needs and interests. Much of their program is built around physical action. This means that young people from10-18 years are in first growing stage of Development. This stage is filled with action, adventures, challenges, group activities and personal growth or the Development of new attitudes towards growth.
The teen’s department exists primarily for teenagers and youth to put abridge between parents and young through active involvement with the club and its members as old work and play together in a bond of common experience.
The teen’s Programs
Camping and survival skills.
Teens association, seminars and retreats
Sports, Music, Dance drama and cultural Development
International youth exchange
Adolescent reproductive Health (school health education PIACSY)
Marching
Information on chemical substances (drug abuse)
Leadership Courses
Young people volunteering.
Promote peace education
Skills Development/education
Youth friendly services
Skills development / education helps to understand and explain our community and to lay scientific ground on which to base our society structures.
Poverty relief system in South Africa priorities children but does not provide grant for adults unless they are sick (disabled. According to the South Africa status, only adults who are sick with TB or AIDS can get the disability grant that is temporally.
Today millions of children are unable to go to school and are being denied their best chance to escape poverty, Its hard to change their life when they do not know how to read or write .
it is difficult to identify and refer all the children needing help.
Malaika orphanage teens club forward to seek bursaries, sponsorship, or any support to make education for every child a reality and to seek for them a better living.
3 HIV/AIDS Awareness /adolescent reproductive health
In Malaika orphanage we train young volunteers along with leadership trainings, Community service, Multicultural understanding and to be responsible for their lives and to protect the lives of other young people around the community. We get training about early pregnancy, reproductive health and adolescent, to avoid abortion, and to become counselors for the young ones.
Our Mission is to introduce and Educate people about the prevention of HIV/AIDS which is dangerously taking young and old and changing the emotional thinking of young people to positive attitudes of positive living without AIDS.
Malaika orphanage work towards ensuring that every young person has the opportunity to volunteer and make a positive difference in the community. This helps them to increase their skills, Knowledge and ability. Understand and appreciate the diversity of our society and work in partnership with communities for the fight against the killer HIV/AIDS.
Malaika orphanage leads its young people to camp outs three times a year from one to three weeks in Mountains, shores of lakes and forests here we learn and discus the best ways we can fight, prevent and tell others about HIV.WE always host one or more visitors from big HIV partners to get more skills and share our views with them.
This is Hard work we cannot manage our self-but with other partners, the community members, international volunteers we can perform well on the fight against HIV/AIDS Virus
4 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Women Association.
Functional Adult literacy.
Human Rights advocacy
Youth entrepreneurship
Income generating activities
Malaika orphanage believes that in a world with people with experience, information, Poverty and suffering is an injustice we can overcome. We believe that poor people usually have a clear idea of what could help them overcome their problem, but they luck the resources needed to put their ideas into practice. That’s where Malaika orphanage comes in, proving community development programs through voluntary work, providing skills that can lead people to employment, self esteem and income generating.
Malaika orphanage enables Girls who are traditionally denied the right to earn an income and education get involved in all programs, improve their status in the community and to become self supporting from their traditional and to learn new things.
Functional Adult literacy helps them to understand and to explain their community and to lay groundwork on which to base their society structures. Other issues addresses in this Department are
Domestic Violence campaigns Human Rights campaigns which aims at raising awareness of their fundamental rights with a view of demanding and ensuring their realization.
MALAIKA ORPHANAGE CHILDREN CENTRE
Orphanage and vulnerable support.
Vocational training.
MOC children Home was started in a humble way by Malaika orphanage staff and a group of Parents who were personally touched by the increasing number of Orphans due to HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
MOC's emphasis is to improve the lives and meet the needs of vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS and to support referrals and food support.
Aims and objectives
To provide educational support to Aids Orphans.
To provide basic support to people infected and affected with HIV.
To support families so that they can start income generating activities so that they can support their families.
To train communities in psychosocial support to orphans and vulnerable children.
To empower orphans and vulnerable children in the community
To serve as role models, listening ears and to provide supportive guidance.
The most vulnerable are the children who have lost their family due to AIDS. South Africa is one of the countries with high orphan rates in the world. The number is exceeding to 2.5 million. Some communities are still stigmatized AIDS orphan. This takes the rural and urban communities.
Most Orphans are cared for by grand parents who are to weak physically and economically to give the necessary child care and support, access to education, medical care and food. Most families are relying on the grand parents pensions which is some times little to care for the big family needs
Our work is to address their values system. Making sure these kids have school and food and a roof over their head.
MOC wish to start to providing Vocational trainings, Due to inaccessibility to education. Lack of education opportunities, high cost of education, orphans caused by HIV/AIDS, poverty, violence against children in home, unwanted pregnancy, has led to an increasing number of school drop-outs.
The Aim is to offer skills to young people in difficult circumstances.
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