This DIC, based in Escourt, in the uTugela district provides multiple services to the local community. The Centre’s work includes community education, assisting home-based care patients and orphaned and vulnerable children to secure the necessary documents and medical treatment as well as adult basic education and training (ABET) classes for rural women and pensioners. Ten home based care (HBC) workers were trained on Advanced First Aid, and HIV and AIDS Treatment.

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This rural DIC facilitates HIV and AIDS treatment workshops, establishes feeding stations for orphaned and vulnerable children and conducts home visits to help terminally ill people. They assist caregivers of these children to apply for grants, to secure the necessary documents, as well as by providing them with food parcels. Currently, the organisation is educating pensioners on ABET. The project has developed a strong partnership with key stakeholders, such as the Ugu District Municipality and the Office of the Speaker in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature.

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The centre focuses on orphaned and vulnerable children, the aged and vulnerable families caring for the terminally ill in Osizweni and the surrounding areas. The AFSA grant was used to support the work of the drop-in-centre, which includes food security programmes, bereavement healing groups, lobbying for the rights of vulnerable people and introducing at risk children to the relevant programmes. This led to the formation of a Child Care Forum in the area.

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Operating in a remote rural area in the uTugela district, the project serves orphaned and vulnerable children, the unemployed and people living with HIV and AIDS. Services include support groups for people living with HIV and AIDS; home-based care and child-headed household programmes; providing school uniforms to orphaned and vulnerable children and food parcels for the terminally ill. Ten Community Health Workers were trained in Advanced First Aid and HIV and AIDS Treatment. The grant contributed to their core funding


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Operating in a remote rural area in the uTugela district, the project serves orphaned and vulnerable children, the unemployed and people living with HIV and AIDS. Services include support groups for people living with HIV and AIDS, home-based care and child- headed household programmes, and providing school uniforms to OVC and food parcels to the terminally ill. Ten Community Health Workers were trained in Advanced First Aid and HIV and AIDS Treatment. The grant contributed to their core funding

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This organisation operates in the Berea area of Durban. The grant supports their Primary Health Care Clinic for people who are living on the streets, those living with HIV and AIDS, and the unemployed.

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This organisation is situated in the Zululand district, providing support to the remote tribal area of Ulundi. The grant was awarded to support their work on home-based care, poverty alleviation, HIV and AIDS education, people living with HIV and AIDS, as well as orphaned and vulnerable children.

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This organisation serves the communities based in Jozini in the Umkhanyakude district. They were awarded a grant to support their work on youth-based initiatives, youth skills development, care and support for those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS, and drug and substance abuse, and promoting positive sexual behaviour.

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This project is based at the St Faith’s Convent in the Ugu District on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. The grant supports their work on care and support for orphans and vulnerable children, health promotion, community home-based care and poverty alleviation interventions.

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The Clermont Community Resource Centre is situated in Pinetown, which is one of the most industrialised areas of Durban. The grant supports their paralegal activities and counselling on HIV and AIDS.

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Ithembalethu operates in Cato Manor, a densely-populated informal settlement in Durban. The grant supports their work on the family integrated programme, life orientation workshops, youth and holiday clubs, bereavement support groups, day-care for OVC, and transition houses for abandoned babies.

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This CBO manages the Philani Drop-In-Centre in this rural area in uTugela district. It is a gem in this impoverished area, with services including voluntary counselling and testing, life skills for the youth, a feeding scheme for vulnerable children, support groups for HIV+ parents and primary caregivers, emergency relief services and home-based care for bedridden patients.

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This organisation operates in the rural area of Ixopo in the Sisonke district. It provides home-based care and implements a comprehensive programme addressing the needs of OVC and their primary caregivers. They also operate a drop in centre which provides paralegal services, counselling and hosts support groups and income generating activities.

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This is a community-based organisation that operates in the densely-populated urban area of Umlazi. It services the community with home-based care, a soup kitchen and implements a comprehensive programme addressing the needs of OVC and their primary caregivers. The organisation also hosts a popular dance programme that caters for youth affected by HIV and AIDS.

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This is a community-based organisation servicing this impoverished community in the Umkhanyakude district, along the borders of Swaziland and Mozambique. The organisation provides advanced services in palliative care and the provincial Department of Health has appointed them to train developing community-based organisations in home-based care. They also implement a comprehensive programme, in collaboration with the Zisize Educational Trust and local schools, attending to the holistic needs of OVC.

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This is a project of the Durban Roman Catholic Diocese. It targets six areas in the Durban Metropolitan area. AFSA supports their work in Groutville and Etete, which are peri-urban communities. The organisation implements comprehensive home-based care and OVC programmes. They are linked to the Stanger Hospital ARV Clinic and perform a vital role in supporting and monitoring patients on ARV therapy.

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This project was established in the Sisonke district by concerned members of the community who were moved by the condition of terminally ill people. They aim to provide HBC; decrease discrimination and stigmatisation of people living with HIV and AIDS through educational programmes; provide care and support to orphans and vulnerable children; bridge the gaps in the public health system at community level and to create job opportunities.

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ITD was established in 2002 in the Sisonke district by a group of women who were concerned about the number of OVC and the rate of unemployment and poverty in the area. They assist OVC with applications for documents and grants and women develop skills in sewing, gardening and home-based care, so that they may earn an income, thus reducing poverty in their households.

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Isibane Sezwe services eGugwini in the Sisonke district. The project is well known in the community because of the home-based care service they provide. They were rated the best care workers in the ward by the Department of Social Development. They also educate communities about HIV and AIDS. In the period under review, they featured an ART literacy programme in their education for prevention programme.

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The Centre was started in 1997 under the auspices of the St Mary’s Catholic Mission Hospital in Mariannhill. In February 2004, it became an NGO, as its scope of work extended beyond the parameters of the hospital, serving 12 rural to semi-rural communities. It is situated at the hospital and aims to: empower community volunteers to render quality, holistic and compassionate home-based care to the patients; create awareness in the community and build the capacity of the communities to take an active stand to fight the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The grant was used toward supporting the work of two DICs.

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The KZN Society for the Blind was formed in 1919 in Durban. The Society has evolved into a dynamic, multifaceted organisation with its focus on improving rehabilitation, education and employment opportunities for the blind. Recently the Society introduced a HIV & AIDS prevention and support programme for the blind and partially sighted and is developing HIV & AIDS materials in Braille for their target audience.

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This organisation started at the McCord’s Hospital with the purpose of providing comprehensive education and training that is informed and challenged by diverse theological understandings and community practices. It targets leaders who should become change agents in their communities, mainstreaming HIV and AIDS, health promotion, poverty alleviation, empowerment and counselling of households and traumatised vulnerable children. The grant was used to train ministers and lay leadership from local churches.

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This organisation implements a number of innovative programmes that target rural men in the Umkhanyakude district. Their first programme focuses on gender; more specifically, on challenging and debating traditional perceptions of male roles and
masculinity. Their second programme is working to economically empower rural men through skills training and the operation of a micro-financing scheme to fund small business initiatives. Examples include poultry farming, a car wash project, bricklaying and goat farming. The Network is also actively involved in a local ‘Crime Prevention Strategy’ developed by, and for, the Umkhanyakude community.

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