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Mission & Objectives

Our Purpose

To deliver educational, social, palliative and health care services in the Overstrand region

Our Mission

The Overstrand area is home to many impoverished and marginalised communities in which access to services are limited, unemployment is high, and drugs, violence, crime, HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies are rife. Many of these communities are geographically isolated and lack even the most basic facilities. The Hermanus Rainbow Trust addresses these dire needs by providing social, education, palliative and health services in all parts of the Overstrand. We offer ongoing training, support, awareness and healthcare for community members so that they are able to escape from their cycles of poverty and live comfortable, dignified lives. The Hermanus Rainbow Trust promotes its services though community outreach so that all individuals in the region may benefit.

Objectives for 2010/2011 Financial Year

Objective 1

To provide Home-Based Care services for a continuous caseload of 600 clients, according to standards set by the Western Cape Department of Health, and to provide monthly support groups in 9 areas for 150 of these clients

Objective 2

To perform a combined monthly total of 3600 TB, ECD Health and Women’s Health screenings through community outreach

Objective 3

To provide DOTS adherence support to a continuous caseload of 100 clients, and to provide transport to ARV clinics for 25 clients every week

Objective 4

To perform 720 ACTs and 600 counselling sessions in medical facilities, and 720 ACTs through community outreach by Lay Counsellors every month

Objective 5

To distribute 10 000 condoms every month

Objective 6

To follow-up, assess and advise a caseload of 45 crèches according to ECD Health standards and criteria, 7 of which must be new cases, to achieve a 75% success rate of crèches improving their standards by 50%.

Objective 7

To perform 1000 household social screenings per month and to follow up on 100% of cases that require further intervention or assessment

Objective 8

To successfully assist 95% of identified individuals to obtain birth certificates, ID books and grants, and to assist 15 families with food parcels and/or clothes/blankets per month

Objective 9

To provide 80 individual counselling sessions per month (20% existing adults, 60% existing children, 20% new children) and ongoing weekly group counselling for 1 group of children who have been exposed to any form of abuse

Objective 10

To conduct 2 socially-oriented awareness and education events at schools and/or clinics every month, and one community-based event every quarter

Objective 11

To provide three meals a day, clothing and continuous psycho-social support for a continuous caseload of 150 children, to provide financial and material support to enable 75 children to attend ECD centres, and to provide after-school activities for 300 children

Objective 12

To operate three weekly childcare workshops for 30 expecting parents, 40 parents with children 0-18 months and 20 parents with children 1½-5 years, and to provide ongoing psycho-social support for all group members

Objective 13

To refine and improve monitoring and evaluation systems so that a complete database of outcomes and impacts can be developed, for the purposes of improving overall effectiveness and efficiency and of being able to define objectives for 2011/2012 in terms of outcomes rather than outputs