Interventions

• Our social worker and paralegal officers help get birth certificates and IDs and then to apply for governmental foster care grants.
• In the meantime emergency food parcels are provided.
• Our orphan clubs in 20 schools provide structured psycho-social support to 400 orphans.
• We hold orphan camps to give the children a wider view of the world.
• We organise Christmas parties, each for 300 orphans, to raise awareness of the problem within each community.
• We provide a community-based health service so that it is not children who must tend to their parent dying of AIDS.
• We try to get their carers involved in one of our income" target="_blank">http://www.orphancare.org.za/igp.html">income generating projects.
• We hold support groups for HIV+ children and their carers.
• Our community-based carers provide training in memory boxes where a dying parent can leave momentos for their children in a positive way.