Woza Moya is a community-based NGO located in the Ufafa Valley of rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

December is always a hectic but exciting month for us at Woza Moya.  We wrap up the year with a big annual spring-clean.  Everyone rolls up their sleeves, washes down buildings, inside and out, sorts through cupboards and shelves, cleans vehicles, equipment, agricultural tools, windows, outside pit latrines, repairs are done, gardens weeded, stock lists updated.  It is a fun but hard day's work.

We also come together to review the year gone by, discussing the Highlights, Challenges and Solutions. Read the Woza Moya Team's Reflections for 2011.

These TEN YEARS that we have worked with the people of the Ofafa Valley Community, we dedicate to Mrs Grace Nomsebenzi Bekwa, a 75 year old woman - mother, grandmother, great grandmother - of exceptional strength and courage.

Gogo Bekwa's story warms our hearts, especially when we remember her situation some years back and consider the great changes that have occurred in her household and in the lives of her grandchildren. Hers is a story that exemplifies our holistic and integrated approach at Woza Moya. In this one household interventions from every one of Woza Moya's main programmes were needed - home-based care services, paralegal interventions, emergency relief food parcels, school support, food security and psychosocial support. Her story highlights the fact that issues cannot be dealt with in isolation; that peoples' lives - and therefore our responses to them - cannot be compartmentalised.  Particularly in the work we do, it would be a great mistake to assume that any one challenge could be dealt with in a linear fashion.