June 2016 – eMasoyi Community Development Foundation

A New Venture

This week, Ma Flo (CEO), Pat (Marketing) and Yvonne (Finance) are at a training conference in Durban. The Government have launched a social cohesion initiative – more details will follow in due course – and Masoyi Home Based Care Project have been chosen to deliver the programme in the Masoyi community. Volunteers in theContinue reading “A New Venture”

Emmah is heavily pregnant!

Emmah runs the Project’s Human Resources, helps with finance, and does much, much more. She has just started four months maternity leave, and will leave a big gap. She is blessed with two children already and a husband who works locally as a carpenter. This photo was taken in 2015, with Emmah in traditional dress.

Community System Strengthening

Masoyi Home Based care has been selected to serve as a Sub-Recipient to implement the CSS (Community Systems Strengthening) interventions with religious leadership structures/platforms (i.e. Christians, Muslims, Rastafarian, etc.), as well as Traditional Leaders, to conduct community outreach work with vulnerable populations, in the Ehlanzeni and Nkangala District within the Mpumalanga Province, for the nextContinue reading “Community System Strengthening”

Peer Education

Following a Previous post, here is more of what the young people do: Another session conducted is Center stage; where participant do different categories like drama “theatre”, music, poetry, and dance. The aim of this session is to do team building, encourage them to work together as a team. The participants need to group themselvesContinue reading “Peer Education”

Peer Education

We are funding a peer education programme in four of the secondary schools in Masoyi, and have had a report on some of the May activities. This is part of that report: One of the sessions conducted this month, we have conducted self-development big YES and big NO where our peer educators develop their selfContinue reading “Peer Education”