loveLife

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loveLifes goGogetter Programme

• Dr Andile Dube

• Director Youth Programme
• VOSESA Conference
• 17 October 2011

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About loveLife

• loveLife has been promoting healthy, HIV-free
  living among South African teenagers since 1999.
• The approach is based on addressing the
  individual, social and structural factors leading
  to high risk tolerance and a perception of scant
  opportunity among teenagers.
• loveLife combines a sustained nationwide
  multi-media campaign with community-level
  outreach and support programmes for youth.
• A Cohort of Youth Volunteers groundBREAKERS drive
  implement lovelifes programmes

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The goGogetter Programmethe role of older South
Africans and women in particular in caring for
those affected by HIV/AIDS
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Why goGogetter Programme?

• goGogetter Programme and the role of older South
  Africans and women in particular in caring for
  those affected by HIV/AIDS
• loveLife implemented the goGogetter programme in
  response to increasing AIDS deaths within the
  adult population, thus leaving a number of
  children orphaned and uncared for.
• The number of adults dying have doubled in the
  last decade and even tripled in some sectors, and
  approximately 1 in six children have lost a
  parent and close to 2 million have lost both
  parents (UNAIDS/WHO 2010).
• Grandmother care in South Africa is not new.
  Apartheid migrant labour system took many adults
  away from their families, living children with
  women and mainly grandmothers.
• This meant that grandmothers have for decades
  been a valuable aspect of South Africas social
  capital, and thus made sense to include them in
  programming during the HIV epidemic.
• When loveLife recogised the need for adolescent
  OVC support, many of our own youth volunteers
  (gBs and Mpintshis) were experiencing losses of
  one or both parents, thus the need for structured
  adult support became clearer.
• Grandmothers care and are trusted by families and
  communities.

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500 goGogetters support 20 OVCs
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How does the goGogetter programme fight HIV?
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Support required for older care givers
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Support required for older care givers

• Current gaps What still needs to be done
• Providing a certificate for goGogettters as many
  have been with the programme for over 3 years
• Include a wellness component in the training of
  goGogetters.

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Support required for older care givers

• Implementation support esp
• in countries that have volunteer policies
• Emotional Support
• Financial Support

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SECTION 3 REACH AND METHODOLOGY
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Acknowledgement

• Noki Pakade Head of Family Programmes

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Thank you

• The New loveLife Trust

• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• 48 wierda rd west wierda valley sandton 2196
• P O Box 45 parklands 2121 south Africa
• talk_at_lovelife.org.za
• www.mymsta.mobi
• www.lovelife.org.za