Geographical Area
Free State, Botshabelo, Thaba Nchu,
Bloemfontein
Overall objective (goal) of
Lesidi’s Community Development and Family Support Programme
To address the needs of children and
families particularly those most vulnerable, through a comprehensive,
sustainable, community owned and managed intervention.
Rural Family Support Programme
Since: 1998
Region: Tweespruit; Ladybrand;
Excelsior; Chocolan; Rosendal; and Marquard, South Africa
Objective: To enable parents
to take better care of their children.
The main aim of this phase of the project is to
consolidate the curriculum - methodology and content of the programme
that was developed in the previous phase and develop it into a
marketable product in form of a manual that Lesedi would offer as part
of its scope of training programmes and which other organisations could
take up for implementation.
The process of consoldation and further development will
include continuing to work with groups of parents on commercial farms
and informal settlements through the weekly sessions/workshops, with
sessions focused around themes that help the parents to explore issues
that are relevant to them such as 'To like myself', 'Assertiveness',
'Healing the wounds of the past', 'Child development', 'The child in the
school system', and 'Health'; and the direct involvement of young
children in sessions that are focused on the needs of young children.
The sessions will also include developing participants'
capacities in problem solving skills, programme monitoring, evaluation
and feedback, and exploring the feasibility of different delivery
mechanisms such as home visits and the involvement of men. The project
will also work towards refining and agreeing on the delivery systems and
structures of the programme and within Lesedi.
Community Development and Family
Facilitators
Since: 2006
Region: Tweespruit; Ladybrand;
Excelsior; Chocolan; Rosendal; and Marquard, South Africa
Objective: To develop a
community-owned, comprehensive and sustainable approach that addresses
the needs of vulnerable families and their children.
The current project is aimed at exploring a community
development practitioner (CDP) model that integrates the RFSP curriculum
to develop a cadre of practitioners skilled in working with children,
their families and the community.
The practitioners - 5 in each community - will be
selected from the communities and trained and mentored by the current
RFSP facilitators as part of or attached to an existing ECD centre to
provide outreach support to vulnerable children and their families. At
the community level, the CDPs will be supported and managed by a
structure to be developed in agreement with each community.
The partner organisation Lesedi will adapt the RFSP
curriculum to enable the CDP to use the adapted RFSP sessions to
dialogue with and provide support to children and their families. In the
initial stage, the CDPs will work as volunteers while Lesedi and the
project team will work with local government to see if the government
could provide stipends or other monetary support to the practitioners as
part of on-going government's efforts to support vulnerable families.
Contact
P.O.Box 28
Tweenspruit
9770
Tel: +27 (0) 72 207 6427
Fax: +27 (0) 82 460 9297
lesedi@connix.co.za
