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Title: The role of Volunteers in NAPHAM
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The role of Volunteers in NAPHAM
- Presented by Maureen Mwakanema
- Southern African Conference on Volunteer
Action for Development - 18th October,2011
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Background of NAPHAM National Association for
People Living with HIV and AIDS in Malawi
- A registered Malawian Non Governmental
Organisation - Started in 1993 by four people who were living
with HIV and felt that their needs as PLHIV were
not met. - A membership organisation open to all PLHIV in
Malawi through support groups in Malawi - As of today NAPHAM has approximately 56,000
registered members. - NAPHAM works directly with PLHIV as such it
provides a human face to the pandemic
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NAPHAMs vision
- NAPHAM envisions quality life for people infected
and directly affected by HIV and AIDS who are
well informed about HIV and AIDS issues and are
able to live to their full potential in a free
and conducive environment
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NAPHAMs mission statement
- NAPHAM exists to promote quality care, support
and prevention services in order to enhance
positive living and to reduce HIV and AIDS
transmission for all people infected and affected
by HIV and AIDS in Malawi.
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Core Programmes and activities
- Prevention, care and support
- HIV AIDS education outreach
- Pretest and follow up counselling
- Community Home Based care
- Adult and children group therapy
- Livelihood
- Income Generating activities
- Farming
- Hope Kit
- Advocacy
- Human Rights and
- Patient Charter
- Sensitising communities on Stigma and
discrimination - Dialogue meetings with community leaders
- Interface meetings with health service providers
- Lobby meetings with government
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Core programmes continuation
- Membership anchor
- Data base of all members and this assists in
developing programmes which takes composition of
membership into consideration. - Capacity building
- Support groups and staff are trained in all core
activities and project management.
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The value of community based volunteers
- NAPHAM as an organisation has no community based
employees. There are only district employees who
provides technical support and mentoring to the
support groups. - All community work is done by the volunteers from
the support groups. Without these community
volunteers NAPHAM would not have achieved much. - The work done by the volunteers is invaluable.
Issues of behavior change can not be tackled by
outsiders alone it has to come from the
community. - Using PLHIV volunteers in the communities has
assisted in reducing stigma and discrimination as
the community values the services they provide.
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The benefits for the volunteers
- Well informed on various HIV and AIDS issues
because they are trained in the area of
volunteering - They gain respect and some become influential in
the communities as they are regarded as a source
of HIV and AIDS information - The small allowances they get during the
trainings go a long way. Others have managed to
start small businesses within their locality
while others have managed to buy iron sheets to
roof their houses.
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Volunteering and sustainable development
- The role of community based volunteers in
sustainable development need not be emphasised
because volunteer from organisations have time
line they come for a specified period and leave
but, the community volunteers will remain in
their communities and continue using and
instilling in others the knowledge and skills for
development. - These volunteers are catalysts of change.
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Volunteer Motivation
- NAPHAM Community Volunteers are unique because
they are in the fight against HIV not as
external experts but as people experiencing the
problem . - They have face the everyday poverty experiences
like everyone else and being PLHIV is an added
burden. They are driven with passion from within. - Providing them with information on HIV and AIDS
which assist them live a positive life is vital
to them. - Providing them with tools that enable them
deliver the services efficiently gains them
respect in the community - Branding makes them stand out in the communities.
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- The strength of NAPHAM lies in the
community based volunteer - NAPHAM , A FRIEND AT ALL TIMES
- Thank for your attention
