Noah (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) is a registered not-for-profit organisation with the sole focus of building the capacity of communities to care for their orphaned and vulnerable children. Noah works on franchising community-based models of orphan care through which motivated individuals from communities are guided to set up their own community of care (Ark).
An Ark is a network of accountable and synergistic support armed with the skills and confidence to care for its orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC). Noah’s model is one that starts with an approach by a community to Noah to assist them to care for their OVC. Noah assists in the formation of a committee of community leaders to focus on the children. They are trained in the needs of children and in turn recruit a volunteer group who are trained and then register OVC in their community. Volunteers continually check up on the circumstances of the children and refer them to the appropriate agency as needed. Noah assists in mobilising the entire community to this challenge resulting in the formation of a committee of community leaders to focus on child care. This functioning web of community support is an Ark.
For Noah, an OVC programme intervention includes activities aimed at improving the lives of children and families directly affected by HIV and AIDS-related morbidity and / or mortality. The emphasis is on strengthening communities to meet the needs of OVC affected by HIV and AIDS, supporting community-based responses, helping OVC and adolescents meet their own needs, and creating a supportive social environment for these children. The communities are our greatest supporters and believe in our model. Noah’s overall goal is to support communities to improve the quality of life of their orphaned and vulnerable children and their families, and to sustain such, in key areas of health (nutrition, physical and emotional), education and economic status.
Noah’s aim is to help the staggering number of children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa to mature into emotionally and psychologically stable adults capable of forming lasting and loving relationships, of being nurturing parents to their own children and responsible and participative citizens of South Africa. This can not be done by government, corporates, individuals or NGOs alone and it is only through partnerships that we will be able to mitigate the orphan crisis facing South Africa.
Operates in: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Established in: 2002
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 021-901
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Contact person: Ruth Ramiso
Phone: 010 003 3130
Fax: 011 234 2271
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Website: www.noahorphans.org.za
Physical address: c/o World of Avatar, 1st Floor Jan Smuts Avenue, Rosebank
Postal address: P O Box 4043, Rivonia, 2128
