Gugulethu Parents for Orphans is an HIV/AIDS programme that deals with children that are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. We offer an after school programme, home / community based care and support, a support group, an income generating programme and also trying to eliminate poverty. The programme involves support for foster parents, orphans and vulnerable children, child headed families, needy children and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Our work strives to enable people and communities to survive poverty. At Gugulethu Parents for Orphans we demonstrate how to use environmentally and economically sustainable living practices so that each community can take care of itself, and are not dependent on the system to cover its basic needs like food, health and educational needs. In doing so, we endeavour to turning the poverty stricken families around and give them the opportunity to build capacities that will strengthen the socio economic needs. Some of us realized something must happen first if that is to happen. Someone must step forward and help, to create a place where people who are young, old, and in between can have a genuine opportunity to grow. ‘To create a space where change can happen’ This is the essence of our work at Gugulethu Parents for Orphans.
In our work, among other things, we are nurturing the potential of people, our potential and of communities so that innovative solutions can emerge and be made to manifest. We embrace the exploration of indigenous African culture and wisdom into a unique and empowering space for self-reliance. We learn from deeper human capacities, hear stories of successful, inspiring communities elsewhere in Africa and around the world, and return to their communities to pursue solutions there.
We have committed ourselves to helping communities and ourselves to learn to both re-perceive our social and economic situations as well as to learn to become self-sufficient. We are simultaneously teachers and learners, co-creating ways to take on leadership roles and re-design our home communities, continually drawing from the resources within the communities.
In our work we help each other to see what is possible through our own experiences. Then we each develop a vision for where we wish to go, while acquiring the practical skills to make it happen. We are nurturing self-reliance skills and attitudes.
Operates in: Boksburg, Gauteng
Established in: September 2006
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 055-766
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Contact person: Leonard Nzama
Phone: 072 868 6863
Fax: 086 549 8803
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Website: www.gpfosa.org
Physical address: 19482 Banjul Crescent, Vosloorus Ext 29
Postal address: 19482 Banjul Crescent, Vosloorus Ext 29, 1475
