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HOPE: Helping Our People Everywhere
Fathima Abdulla. HIVAN Networking and Sectoral Research Team. 20 August 2003.
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The H.O.P.E. Foundation is a Christian faith-based organisation founded by Dr. Fred Roberts in 2000 as an outreach programme of the Durban Christian Centre Church. The HOPE Centre Foundation is an NPO incorporating a feeding scheme, a HOPE empowerment programme and HIV/AIDS clinic (Hope Centre).
Situated in the Alhambra theatre at the corner of Berea Road and Warwick Avenue, it provides free VCT, HIV Wellness Management, support groups, social work services, home-based care support of grassroots organisations and referral to other relevant stakeholders for clients in and around the Durban Functional Region.
The H.O.P.E. Foundation sees our community conquering the HIV/AIDS epidemic through positive living and thereby paving the way to an AIDS-free generation. One of its core aims is to destroy the silence on HIV/AIDS and the stigma that surrounds and propagates it, through skills development and a strong message of hope.
Abstinence Programme
The H.O.P.E Centre promotes sexual abstinence as a definite safe strategy to reduce HIV infection amongst youth. This programme empowers youth to say ?“NO?” to pre-marital sex and challenges married people to remain faithful to their spouses.
HIV/AIDS Training
The following courses are offered by the Facilitation and Training Resources Department of the H.O.P.E Centre Clinic:
- G.T.I. (Get That Information) ?– this is a lively, interactive course aimed at managers of businesses, schools and churches.
- Peer Education Training
- Counsellors?’ Training
- VCT, STI education and wellness management training
- Behaviour Modification seminar
- Skills Impartation Seminar
The HIV/AIDS training programme offers basic and advanced training to the community, business sector and government departments, placing special emphasis on training community leaders such as church leaders, school governing bodies, councillors etc.
The H.O.P.E. Feeding Scheme
A few hundred homeless people from the City and surrounding areas and a school for the physically challenged at Malandeni in Umlazi benefit daily from this feeding scheme. H.O.P.E. (?“Help Our People Eat?”) is a successful project which continues to offer them, free of charge, a hot nutritional meal at lunchtime every weekday. Food parcels are also sent out to those who are home-bound because of HIV/AIDS.
H.O.P.E. Empowerment
H.O.P.E. Empowerment runs several projects:
- Income-generation projects for PLWHA?’s
- Life-skills and gender awareness programmes
- Business skills training, advice and counselling
- Job placement
- Adult literacy
- Domestic worker training and placements
Asibambisane Home for AIDS Orphans
The purpose of the Asibambisane Children?’s Sanctuary will be to care for, meet the needs of and serve children who have been orphaned by, neglected or rejected because of HIV/AIDS. This children?’s residential facility will be structurally fashioned to function in family units dispersed within the community.
By enhancing, developing and equipping our people, the H.O.P.E. Foundation gives people hope, help and comfort for the future.
For more information about the H.O.P.E. Foundation contact:
Mr. Mmangaliso Zondi. Telephone: 031 3072691. Email: [email protected].
Banking details are as follows, should you wish to make a contribution: International Community College Commercial KZN NEDBANK Branch Code: 164826 Account no. 1648021689
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