HelpAge International

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HelpAge International ...a global network of
not-for-profit organisations with a mission to
work with and for disadvantaged older people
worldwide to achieve a lasting improvement in the
quality of their lives.
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• HelpAge International, Tete Province, Mozambique
• HAI rural development programme 1996, added
  living together component in 2001.
• Strengthen ability to meet basic needs
• Raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the communities
• Link the communities to key support agencies
• Facilitate inclusion in community activities
• Document best practice
• Local community structures Older peoples
  councils, Social assistance committee, credit
  committee
• Basic needs and income support, HIV/AIDS
  activists, counsellors, school integration and
  
• community inclusion

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• Main Results
• Strengthened community problem solving and
  accountability
• Integration of orphaned children into school
• Reduced child responsibilities in household
• Delayed marriage of girls
• Improved quality of life (shelter, health, food)
• Increased awareness of HIV/AIDS
• Improved understanding of rights (OVC/OP)
• Strengthened local enterprises/agricultural
  activities
• Improved links to government and other key
  agencies

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• Challenges
• Southern Africa food crisis 2002/3
• Increase of HIV and numbers of OVCs older carers
• Older peoples need for support in accessing
  credit
• Sustainability of childrens integration into
  school and opportunity cost for families
• Continued denial of HIV/AIDS, traditional
  beliefs, witchcraft
• Sustainability of volunteerism
• Accountability upward/downward
• Lack of access to treatment of AIDS related
  illnesses and ARVs
• Need for more attention to psycho-social needs
• of OVCs and their caregivers