After School Programme for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (ASPOVC) plans to build two Classrooms and a kitchen to provide free education and free nutritious meal to 180 orphans and vulnerable children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS or vulnerable who live in Eenhana town.
There are currently more than 27,245 orphans living in the Ohangwena region according to the National housing Sensus 2011. Although the Government, civil society, NGO's and faith-based organizations are developing systems of social and economic support around the region, many factors inhibit this development, and often those most in need are prevented from benefiting from such support. This project will support 180 orphans who stay in Eenhana town.
ASPOVC provides on-site (school/family) counseling and psychosocial support, family/group-based support in and with academic homework, Child support services for legal documentation, and referrals, feeding schemes, and extracurricular activities (sport, art, music, dance, poetry, and drama). The After School Programme for OVC provides skills development training in the area of counseling to all the volunteers engaged in the service of the children.
The project will help 180 children overcome and cope with their circumstances positively, start to know their rights and responsibilities and their value in society encouraged to develop positive dreams for their future, and be provided an opportunity to learn skills towards achieving such dreams, provided school uniforms as another impetus for children to attend school regularly, and offered necessary support in acquiring necessary documentation such as birth certificates.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
