South Africa
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Anir has been leading educational programs to South Africa since 1997 and volunteer programs since 2002 in the Western & Eastern Cape Regions |
Anir Experience programs include joint Habitat for Humanity build in the Townships, working with orphans and people dealing with HIV/AIDS
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Fikelela
the HIV /AIDS outreach program of the Anglican Church in Cape Town, South Africa. Fikelela was founded in 2000 with the vision to provide an active Christian response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa. Their mission is to mobilize the Anglican community (and the community at-large) to make a sustained positive contribution to the reduction of new HIV infections and to drive HIV/AIDS education and care in partnership with others. Fikelela has a number of programs throughout the Western Cape Community, Heaven’s Nest and The Fikelela children’s Centre which care for abandoned and orphaned children, and community outreach and HIV/AIDS support and counseling groups in addition to their education programs. Anir Experience work’s with Beverley Hendricks, Fikelela program administrator, supplying volunteers to live, on a short term basis (2-weeks to 3-months), at Heaven’s Nest, assisting the local foster care team with caring for orphaned children. Beverley also conducts HIV/AIDS training for all Anir interns and volunteer groups. |
University of Cape Town/Cape Technikon Dept Community Health Anir Experience is working with Ashraf Mohammed Director of UCTT HIV/AIDS student support center (who has been lauded by the world's largest community service organization, the Lions Club, and by the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control, for his study on TB and HIV); Anir will be supplying UCTT with research volunteers, peer counselors and interns to do community outreach on their HIV mobile unit which focuses on both the Muslim community and everyone, no matter their culture, in the university system of the Western Cape. |
Baphumelele In 1989, Rosalia Mashale, “Rosie” to those around her, a trained primary school teacher, moved from the Eastern Cape to the township Khayelitsha in the Western Cape Province of South Africa near Cape Town. Rosie was disturbed to see young children going through the rubbish dump in search for food while their parents were away during the day, either at work or in search of work, or without parents at all. She responded by taking children into her home, and together with a group of women from the community, began looking after these unsupervised children. After the first week, 36 children had joined their charge; there are now over 130 children who live with Rosie and look to her and her staff and volunteers for care and love. Rosie’s project is entitled Baphumelele (pronounced: bah-poo-meh-LAY-lay), a Xhosa word meaning “progress”; and progress she has made. From the beginning of one house for 36-50 children, Bahpumehlelel has grown, there is now the Baphumelele Educare Center established as a community crèche (preschool) caring for roughly 230 children aged three months to six years, the Baphumelele Children’s Home which is a place of safety for abandoned, abused, neglected or orphaned children, most of whom are either infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. In the community Baphumelele is very active in HIV/AIDS education and caring for adults as well, there is the Baphumelele HIV Respite Care Center, Rosie’ s Kitchen (for feeding those in need no matter what age), and the creation of entrepreneurship programs offering job training. Through the hard work, determination and help of the community and overseas friends, Baphumelele has developed into a thriving community project. In addition to the Children's Home, Educare Centre, and Respite Care Center, today Baphumelele encompasses other community outreach initiatives such as: Baphumelele Woodwork Shop and Baphumelele Second-Hand Shop. Anir Experience is working with Simphiwe Mabuya, Baphumelele’s Administrator, on four projects: A. Supplying North American volunteers to work in: 1. the Educare Center spending time and giving love and much needed attention to young children who have been abused, neglected or orphaned, 2.Rosie’s Kitchen helping supply at least one good hot meal a day to those in need, 3. teacher’s and tutors, 4. HIV/AIDS educators to help educated the community, 5. Skilled crafts persons and business savvy persons to help with job training. B. WOZA Soccer Camps for international youth to join in the spirit of the World Cup by playing and interacting with the children of Baphumelele through soccer. C. Refurbishing homes of respite care clients, bringing the homes up to livable standards. D. The development of a crafts program using recycled materials. |
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