By Kabonyana Gilbert Tumedi | Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
HOPE worldwide Botswana appreciates your continued belief in Hope Restored! Through your generosity, our team continues to reach the most vulnerable HIV-affected families in Bontleng and Broadhurst. This reporting period, we served 231 individuals (161 children and 70 caregivers) delivering 783 services across health, psychosocial, education, and protection support.
Keeping Children Healthy and on Treatment
Our caseworkers provided HIV adherence support to 67 clients and monitored treatment through 64 clients on multi-month drug dispensing, with 51 of them stable enough for a full 3-month supply. WASH (water, sanitation, & hygiene) and HIV-prevention education reached all 231 beneficiaries, and 128 school-age children had their attendance monitored across the program. We continue strengthening referral pathways with local clinics to keep children and caregivers safely on treatment.
One caregiver, Lopang Gosiame (36), had interrupted her HIV treatment and repeatedly missed clinic appointments. Over roughly a month, the OVC Facilitator carried out sustained home visits, adherence counselling, and psychosocial support, never giving up despite countless setbacks. When Lorato finally yielded, the Facilitator providedaccompanied referral to the health facility, waiting with her through the entire process of vital signs screening, counselling, and consultation.
Lopang was successfully re-initiated on antiretroviral therapy and given a two-month supply of medication, committing to stay in care. As her children's sole caregiver, restoring her own treatment also protects her children's health and the stability of the household, one of the clearest examples of how sustained, compassionate follow-up changes outcomes for an entire family.
Restoring Vision, Expanding Opportunity
In Ledumang, Broadhurst, a routine home visit uncovered that Gaone Wametsi, a young OVC beneficiary, had been struggling with her eyesight for some time. Accompanied referral was provided for her to Bontleng Eye Clinic, where she received a full assessment and a treatment plan. Gaone and her caregiver said the accompaniment made all the difference in helping them navigate a healthcare system she was not sure how to approach alone.
In Bontleng, a 14-year-old beneficiary, Martin Timetso had been quietly struggling to see the chalkboard and keep up at school. Case management follow-up caught the issue, and a Community Facilitator accompanied him to an optometrist, where he was diagnosed with astigmatism in both eyes and fitted with prescription spectacles. What looked like a small errand, a ride to an eye clinic, has given a 14-year-old boy the ability to see clearly, learn confidently, and keep pace with his classmates.
Meeting Basic Needs, Restoring Dignity
Through routine household assessments, HwwB OVC Facilitators also identify families facing material hardship to link them to services. This period, a caregiver struggling financially received donated winter clothing for her children, easing a burden that had left her worried about how her children would stay warm enough to attend school through the cold season. The clothing let her redirect her limited resources toward food and school supplies instead, a reminder that dignity is often restored through the smallest, most practical acts of generosity.
What We Have Accomplished Together
This reporting period (April to June)
Moving Forward
In the months ahead, we are focused on closing the gap toward our target of 300 vulnerable children, with particular attention to those that do not know their HIV status, which currently sits furthest behind. Our plan includes intensifying household visits and beneficiary tracing, scheduling appointments during weekends and after-work hours to reach caregivers who work during the day and building a structured outreach schedule to make the most of each working day.
We are also strengthening reminder calls and follow-up visits ahead of appointments, conducting weekly data reviews to catch gaps early, and continuing to advocate for increasing Community Facilitator availability from three working days per week to five, so we can reach more families more consistently.
You are not just funding a program, you are restoring health, sight, warmth, and hope to families who are working hard to stay together. Every home visit, every accompanied referral, every child who can see the chalkboard clearly again: it all happens because you chose to stand with us.
Thank you for not forgetting them.
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