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Help Support AIDS Orphans in South Africa
Heather Reynolds is the founder/director of God’s Golden Acre Khayelihle. She is an incredible woman whose pioneering work has resulted in saving thousands of desperately sick and dying orphaned children. God’s Golden Acre Khayelihle was first started in the Reynolds’ own home in Wartburg.
There, like and dedication restored most of these sick children back to life. In 1999 the centre went to Cato Ridge and now children live in homes built around the original homestead.
Heather has also established an extensive rural outreach project that now cares for more than 4000 orphaned and abandoned children who were living in appalling conditions, providing a basic food parcel, education and school uniforms. Every day more and more children are orphaned. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is now reaching its peak in Kwa Zulu Natal. It is the worst affected area in the world; 36% of the population is HIV positive and up to 250 deaths are recorded a day. Heather started a child-sponsorship programme that more and more people are supporting, thus enabling more and more families to receive the basic necessities to carry on.
After Heather presented a paper at the Worlds AIDS Conference in 2000, she was invited to speak at many conferences throughout the world. She is now an inspirational speaker, who dedicates a lot of her time giving talks and interviews, all over the world.
To stop the children from turning to drugs and unification gangs, Heather started a sporting project that now has more than a 100 junior soccer teams. The children also have regular coaching sessions when finances permit.
HEATHER’S BIOGRAPHY, by Dale le Vack
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Although proceeds from the sale of the book do not go directly to God’s Golden Acre Khayelihle, they are a vital source of income without which Heather would be powerless to carry out the wonderful work that she does.
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Here is a link to Heather Reynolds website.http://www.godsgoldenacre.org.uk/
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Scientology Tour Helps Benin Orphans
Scientology volunteers work with Benin humanitarian assemble to improve the quality of care for orphans in the City of Djougou
The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour, which travels throughout western Africa offering seminars, courses and one-on-one help for people throughout the region, has provided training to orphanage administrators in the city of Djougou, teaching effective solutions to the challenges they face in improving the quality of care in their facilities.
An estimated 340,000 Benin youth are orphans, with no anticipated decrease in the small term. In the first half of this decade the number of AIDS orphans—children who have lost either one or both parents to AIDS—in Benin more than doubled, from an estimated 23,000 in the year 2000 to some 62,000 in 2005, and the prediction is that this will only continue to escalate. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Agency for International Enhancement have predicted that by the end of the decade, 20 million children in Africa will lose one or both parents to AIDS.
To effectively address issues related to parentless children, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers partnered with a non-profit assemble responsible for 28 orphanages in the City of Djougou. The Volunteer Ministers delivered “The Raising of Children” seminar for orphanage administrators, presenting procedures and practices, developed by humanitarian and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, that can be applied to improve the quality of care of children in these institutions.
The orphan care initiative is just one in Benin, an emerging nation whose Combined Domestic Product ranks 159 of 177 nations. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour offers seminars and workshops free of charge to any non-profit assemble or government agency on increasing efficiency, improving interaction skills and organizing to increase production.
Scientology volunteers also trained nurses at a local clinic to use Scientology Assists, techniques that provide relief and speed recovery from emotional or physical trauma. They also gave a drug education seminar to a local youth assemble and a workshop to a women’s friendship on how to resolve conflicts and save marriages.
In addition to seminars in convergence locations, the volunteer ministers provided small-assemble training and one-on-one counseling at their huge yellow tent, everywhere visitors could select from 19 courses ranging from “Assists for Illnesses and Injuries” to “Tools for the Headquarters.” These free courses are also available online at the Scientology Volunteer Ministers website.
Linda Wieland writes for the Scientology Press Office in Los Angeles, CA.
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Zambian education changing its face
EDUCATION IN ZAMBIA
Zambia got independence in 1964, and the people’s first head, Kenneth Kaunda, led the people as a one-party state until 1991, when a multi-party system was introduced. But in reality, Zambia’s democracy is still not effective very well. Decisions are primarily made by the ruling party elite, while parliament and district authorities have very small say on matters of plotting and budgeting. Theoretically, the citizens have been allowed to influence the plotting process through a decentralisation reform, which was launched in 2004, but there is still a splendid lack of structures that can effectively give citizens a more direct influence on the choice-building processes.
it has been estimated that 34% of seven years ancient children are denied admission to primary school each year because of lack of places. More than 600, 000 children between the ages of seven are not in school and the majority are girls.”
Education in Zambia has improved a lot since independence, but a lot more still needs to be done. The growing population from 3,319,538 in 1980 to 10 million people in 2002. It has shown that rapid growth of Zambian citizen has drastically influenced the education sector in Zambia.” The numbers of school places are now no longer ample to take in all the children. It’s a huge challenge to orphans to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC’s) to access education from time to time as the sector has veteran the disequilibrium. The impact is mainly ignored as its couples itself with economic trends of lack of employment as a source of income to sustain the ongoing school children.
Kabsy Consultancy Services a leading firm academic consultancy firm in Africa has embarked on a programme of helping more African educanalists to realise their full potential. A project was launched in Kabwe, Zambia early October 2009. Kabsy Consultancy services is empowering Zambian companies with enhancement, social work skills and infotech nitty-gritty. The main aim is in promoting education policy in Zambia and meeting vision 2030.
It’s in this line that the government the republic of Zambia, in 2002 introduced free basic education from grade one to grade seven, so as to allocate number of orphans and vulnerable children to access education. Other policy key principles were in decentralization of the education system, building of more schools, and deployment of more teachers who were waiting to be sent in various schools. Improvement of teacher’s allowances, especially housing allowances to teachers effective in rural areas setting.
Having implemented the free basic education policy from 2002, what has been the impact on the target assemble? Studies on the implementation of social policy and its impact on the target assemble have been done. The reports show that the education system of Zambia has denied access to the orphans and vulnerable children despite introduction free primary education. “The OVC’s’ are still deniable admission in primary school and this forces them to find themselves in convergence schools. To persons that have attended school in available public learning institutions, quality of services being provided still remains very poor. About one third of Zambia’s primary does not go to school. They stay away because school is expensive, or stay away or because they have to work. For persons that attend, they drop out rates offering girls in particular after grade 4.
In most rural areas, parent of female children see their daughters as their source of riches. They would rather sell their children, in the name of marriage at an early age in peacefulness to lay their hands in the bride price. They do not realize the importance of educating the girl child which is very saddening. There has got to be more awareness made in the rural areas. “
Civil Society for Poverty Reduction, CSPR (2000: 10) records that, “for persons that stay in school, the number of teachers is consistently shrinking, and in rural areas it is simple to find schools with only teachers. Children are often hungry, which reduces learning and enhancement. The schools have small or no funds for books or other learning materials.” In line of the above, it has been observed that there is a need of improving current infrastructure in the people, if enhancement in the education has to be revealed to its most potential.
A further factor that hinders the progress of enhancement is HIV/AIDS. This ever-isolating scourge is drawing Zambia back, in many ways. Zambia is suffering from brain drain because most of our education citizens are dying a premature death, which is damaging to Zambia. In addition, the breadwinners of families are being lost and their families left to live in poverty. According to International HIV/AIDS Alliance (2003:6) writes to say; “some children may pull out of school altogether because of dread of getting HIV from their teachers, this is particularly so in rural areas everywhere most children are still be misinformed about HIV/AIDS infection.”
Other side of the picture on HIV/AIDS is that, the children are left homelessly without having anyone to support them and this tend to confuse a home in the event if the death of a man of the house as the women will not be able to take care of the children without the help of extended family.
According to Mwansa A,C (2004) as reflected in free basic education policy implementation policy implementation assessment, reports that, “ enrolments augmented marginally after the introduction of free basic education policy. On the other hand the, applications declined in 2003 especially in rural areas. It would seem that the causal factor was not only major barrier to access. Though the guidelines from the ministry of education did not impose any limit on enrolments, one third of the applicant were turned away , suggesting that are other considerations are equally vital in determine access to education. The rate of girls turned away was slightly privileged than that of boys. One of the reasons why a third of the applicant re turned away from school is the inadequacy of school infrastructure.”
In view of the analysis presented above, I therefore recommend that, if free basic education policy has to be effectively implemented there is a need of the government to build more infrastructure facilities such s schools, universities, more education colleges. There is also a need of improving teacher’s conditions in terms of housing allowances and salaries, if more graduates have to join the teaching profession.
In the context of poverty and education, the government needs to build more state companies rather than bringing selfish investors, who aim only in building profit and taking t into their respective countries. Companies for Zambian will have a heart for people and hence people will go from being exploited to more empowered with economical resources that will fight poverty, HIV/AIDS and unemployment.
Conclusion.
Social Policy is a system of interrelated principles that are formulated in line with the problem at hand, its aim is in seeing to it that people lives are improved and people re in a state of social and economical dependence. One of such areas is education policies, which re formulated in meeting the needs of people in accessing education for all. But, Zambian education policy has to be clearly expressed and fine tuned so as to realistically meet the needs of the Zambian people. They must take cognizance of the paucity of national resources, be complotted by professionals such as social workers, and incorporates inputs from grassroots movements.
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In a tin-walled compound outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a middle-class woman named Haregewoin Teferra suffers terrible personal losses. In grief, she turns to the church, and is presented with two orphans and questioned to house them. Haregewoin agrees. Once she opens her gate, she never manages to close it again. Here is a woman who does not run away from HIV-positive and AIDS-orphaned children, brought to her on foot, by bus or by donkey cart. There are over a million … More >>
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