eMasoyi Community Development Foundation
Welfare. Health. Training
[The Project administers a Government programme for its own workers and some 100 others, that pays some £60pm for doing work in the community – from May to January.]
“We pray for those whose income ends this month, with no certainty that it will re-start in May. We pray that those who are fearful will turn to You for hope; and that in ways we cannot imagine, You will be the LORD who provides for them.”
This is a couple who are both HIV positive and drinking well the treatment. They do not have ID documents because they come from Swaziland. Sometimes they don’t drink the treatment because they do not have food to eat. They are staying in a one room shack [not the building behind them!]. We told them to stop using traditional herbs and they agreed. The husband told us he w0uld like to stop smoking, although it is difficult. They are willing to live a positive lifestyle. They even attend our support group that we have every month. We gave them food a parcel.
“Please bless the masoyi community:
Thank you.
This 49-year old man from Swalala is HIV-positive and has cancer in the testicles. He drinks his treatment well, but he is suffering from severe pain where they have done the operation, and his wound is leaking. He lives alone in a two-room house, and does not get any social grant.
We referred him to the Social Development Department to apply for a social grant. We gave him pain killers, savlon, and linen saver, and we told him to bathe the area with warm salt water.
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“Thank you for Ma Flo [Chief Executive Officer] and Jabu [Child Care Coordinator], who have given such selfless service to the most needy in the Masoyi community over so many years. May you be their comfort when their hearts are breaking; may you be their guide when the way ahead seems confused and unclear; and may they trust your purposes for good, and so find inner peace.”
During support groups and home visits we try to educate and encourage our clients about the importance of not mixing their treatment and traditional medicine. We provide emergency food parcels where we can. We refer clients to the nearest clinic when they can walk to the clinic. Sadly, we rarely have funds to provide transport for those unable to walk.
This is the support group in Mthimba, which is facilitated by Florah, one of our patient care workers. We had 53 clients that attended. We have support groups in all the seven areas where we operate.
We visited a family at Phola area. The father and son were HIV positive, and the clinic had given them 3 months treatment. They didn’t tell them how to take the treatment and they were overdosing on it.
We explained the treatment to them and gave a food parcel, but they both ended up with liver failure, so we referred them to the clinic where they were taken to hospital. On our next visit, we found that the mother was mourning for her husband and her son.
“On 26th November, we hosted a graduation ceremony at K2 center for all our Peer educators from the four different high schools. We invited lot of motivational speakers and they all came; and we invited some of our stakeholders and they showed up too. In the morning, I thought it would be just a fiasco event [because of the weather], but clearly God was on our side: everything went according to plan, and it was an exciting and funny graduation. The Peer educators were all happy.”
Of the 128 graduates, three had completed the full 3-year programme, 21 had completed two years, and 104 just the first year.
eMasoyi Community Development Foundation