Ya ne! The camps was one of the things that I will never forget in my life. It was a wonderful experience and it taught us lot of things like being a caring adult and way of overcoming problems. So we had camps in different sites like Kwa Mduku, Dlangezwa, Skhawini, Kufezekile and Phaphasi, so we had openings for our camps where we pray sing our “ZUPE!” song and give kids name tags, divide them into groups and give them food. We also had closing for the camp where we ask kids what they learnt and gained during the camp.
Nathi used the vuvuzela to signal the end of sessions.
As you all know that we hosted world cup and we decided to use a horn (VUVUZELA) for change of sessions, which made our participants so excited since there was this soccer fever .The support that we had from the participants it made me forget that we had to eat and rest because we had to be at work by 5:00 am in the morning, collect coaches and go to the camp. During the camp we had to give services like Health education, Health counseling, Social services, Skillz activities and Computer training for the community.
After the camp we had to escort them (kids) to the world cup games and that is also a thing that kids will never forget in their lives and we would come back late at night 2am and we had to go to work at 5am. Wow for me I will never forget camps and world cup.
Camp meeting
Posted by nathi on July 26, 2010 at 5:26 am.
Tags: Sport & Health Activities, Success Stories —
by Mpilonhle Mobile Unit One “ISIQALO”
A learner at Nkosana High School in grade 12, he was referred to the Social Worker for being an orphan (lives with mother), through the interview it was discovered that he has never met with his father since birth. It was than agreed that searching for his father was the main self mission he has set for himself. He often gave a lot of thoughts as to how it feels to have and grow up in the presence of a father.
The Social Worker did the best he could for the client, the mother of the client was invited for an interviewed at school, for further information on the father, the mother did respond well and cooperated through out the process of the interview, the major problem in the course of the search, was that the father of the client had retired and his’ where abouts were unknown.
A media program for missing persons was utilized, the father’s profile was sent and the father did respond and this lead to the meeting arrangement, in Durban. The client currently lives with his father and hold temporal jobs and was well received by the step mother.
This has truly brought joy to the client’s life and the need for Social Workers to intervene and change lives of those that need help was truly realized. All this happened during the year 2009.
Posted by Sifiso Zulu on February 5, 2010 at 9:12 am.
Tags: General, Health Counsellors, Health Education, Success Stories —
SUCCESS STORY
By Mpilonhle Mobile Unit One (ISIQALO)
It was on the 22nd of May 2008, when a learner of 17 years of age tested positive, although it was business as usual, what was exceptional with this case, was that she was failing to cope and could not understand why she tested positive because she had never been sexually active or sexually molested.
Her CD4 count was done on the 27th of May 2008 and it came back on the 26th of June 2008 very low i.e. 37 and 6.72 in percentage. Our next plan of action was to refer the learner to the local clinic (Mtubatuba Clinic) for initiation of ARTs; she was then taken to the Mtubatuba clinic by our driver and nurse to be introduced to the clinic setting and handed over to the ART Department for further management.
The Mtubatuba clinic was requested to start treatment and in this case her mother had to be called (phoned), she was reluctant to allow her child to start ARV’s and requested that we leave her child alone, as she did not send her child to be tested for HIV but with our nurse and social worker’s persuasive skills and explanation they managed to get her consent so that the child could start ARV’s as soon as possible. Then the client was put on a fast tracking programme i.e. where baseline blood is taken and the client starts taking ARV’s immediately without attending the compulsory literacy classes as this would follow while the client had already been started on ARV’s on the 21st of August 2008. Feedback given to us was that she was doing well on treatment.
This story shows us the good that is done by Mpilonhle (a good life) to the community of Umkhanyakude District because without Mpilonhle the child would still not know her status yet she was having a low CD4 count, which could lead to unnecessary death that can be prevented.
Posted by Sifiso Zulu on January 26, 2010 at 9:28 am.
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