Home Visits

 

Home Based Care Kit Woza Moya's 35 CCWs support the family or the primary caregivers in households to care for the sick at home.  They teach basic skills such as infection control and, as part of the poverty alleviation support, educate about financial matters, social pensions and grants, and issues such as health, nutrition and sanitation.  They also make referrals to the relevant authorities or to the Woza Moya Programme Coordinators.

 CCWs are local villagers who are trained by Woza Moya. 

They are supplied with shoes, uniforms, basic medical supplies and taxi fares, and receive a stipend which enables them to visit approximately 30 families each - in total some 1 140 families - a month.  They are monitored to ensure services are professional and standards maintained. Jane Nxasane, Home-based Care Programme Coordinator, supports the care workers and is responsible for distributing supplies such as condoms, rubber gloves, nappies and home-based care kits donated by the local Department of Health.  Jane collates all the CCWs monthly Home Visit Sheets and submits Woza Moya's home-based care statistics to the local clinic.  Jane also completes a very comprehensive monthly statistics form for the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa. Three data capturers capture the data from the Home Visit Sheets into the database.  From that information accurate reports can be drawn.  This is useful for reporting to donors as well as for managing the programme.

Woza Moya

  • actively seeks to empower women in the community and workplace
  • encourages taking responsibility by knowing your HIV status
  • respects the natural environment of the Ufafa Valley and the culture of the people living there