SERVICES AND PROJECTS
Through trained care givers, we offer home based care daily. Care givers do door to door visits to the sick, assist them with medication and nutrition, day to day life, arrange dates for the mobile clinic, arrange grants and foster care for the vulnerable groups. They write reports monthly and submit at our office. They are monitored closely and given support by the co-coordinator, a doctor and a nurse at RUCC Cares clinic.
Pre- and post HIV counseling, testing and ARV preparation is offered on a daily bases at mobile clinic and RUCC Cares offices, where we also run a daily clinic.
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Rucc cares clinic and the Mobile clinic
Medical outreaches are done 3 times a week by the doctor, a nurse and care givers. We arrange a visit with the care giver of a particular area and do VCT, health education and promotion, and assist patients with acute medical needs, referring them to nearest hospitals when the need arise. During these outreaches we also encourage good moral values, abstinence from sex and drugs amongst the youth and encourage them to engage in other social activities like sports to keep them busy, go to church for their spiritual fulfillment .
medical outreach with mobile
Observation of the health calendar, like TB day, candle light memorial etc., are done. On these days we organize outreaches and campaigns to the communities.
candle light memorial, Qokolweni
We arrange grants and food parcels(as crisis intervention) for orphans, child headed homes, elderly, people living with disabilities through our volunteer social workers and our sponsors. Care givers mother the child headed homes, arrange for school uniforms and fees with us when such needs arise. This year we have also started to provide shelter (building homes) for the homeless.
We encourage agriculture. Each community that we work with has kitchen gardens and /or community garden and fields (iintsimi) that are tendered by the care givers. The produce assist the HIV infected especially those on ARV’s and those that are being prepared; also the poor and vulnerable group of that community and the care givers themselves. The surplus, when available, is then sold and the income goes to the care givers. So far we have made a deal with Pick’n Pay, Mthatha
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vegitable gardens and caregivers
We identify skills and assist in turning those skills into income generating projects (like bead work, sewing). We have started one such project in June 2011.
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