VISION
THE AWARDS CYCLE
PLATINUM
9 projects were awarded Platinum in 2008
Gauteng Environmental Management Inspectorate
The Gauteng Environmental Management Inspectorate (EMI) was launched in July 2006, and due to its work has since become known as the ‘Green Scorpions’. The Gauteng EMI is part of a national network of environmental enforcement officials from various national, provincial and municipal government departments. Created by an amendment to the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) of 1998
Friends of Mosvold Scholarship Scheme (FOMSS)
The Mosvold Hospital is one of the state health facilities that serves the Jozini District in the northern- most part of KwaZulu-Natal. This remote area shares borders with Mozambique and Swaziland and with a population size of 165 000 people in the sub-districts. There is a myriad of health problems that affect these communities, which includes a 36% female HIV prevalence rate. As is the case in many state health facilities, finding qualified long-term professional staff from the community where these hospitals operate, is problematic.
Sizophila Project
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation initiated the Sizophila Therapeutic Counseling Project in 2002. It is run from the Hanan-Crusaid Centre in Gugulethu, Cape Town that provides Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) to more than 3000 people in the Nyanga District. The project was created to address the need for a strategy to ensure ART adherence and trained health care personnel in large clinics.
Europa House
The Europa House is a housing initiative in which the dilapidated inner city Europa Hotel in Hillbrow was refurbished and converted into affordable housing units. Suffering the same fate as many buildings in this area, the hotel became a slum and a haven for an array of illegal activities. Refurbishment of the building commenced in Jan 2005 and was completed in Sept that year
Autonomous Treatment Centre
The Ndlovu Medical Centre was established in 1994. What started as a small private primary health-care clinic has since grown into an NPO combining two trusts that were created in 1999. One of the trusts, The Ndlovu Medical Trust (NMT) sought a comprehensive solution to the lack of adequate health service delivery in the Moutse area in Limpopo. They created the Autonomous Treatment Centre (ATC) and its approach is a model of service delivery for integrated HIV/ STI/ TB Care in rural areas
Feedback Food Security & Community Development Programme
Feedback’s Food Security and Community Development Programme (NPO) was initiated in 2000 as a result of one woman’s efforts to redistribute excess food from Cape Town’s film industry to those in need. Feedback aims to ensure that nobody goes hungry when there is an excess of food nearby, and to inspire community development by encouraging the development of independent food sources.
Administrative Support for TB Programme
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health problem in the Western Cape. Cape Town carries 50% of the province’s TB health burden. Over the last 10 years, there has been a 68% increase in the number of reported TB cases in Cape Town. 27,017 cases of TB were reported in 2006. Higher rates of TB are found in poorer areas with high HIV prevalence rates. Cape Town health facilities have been overwhelmed by the increase in patients and unable to keep up with administrative tasks. In response to this problem Metro Health District Services (MHDS) and City Health conceptualized the Administrative Support for TB Programme in 2005 as part of a Provincial Department of Health (DOH) policy for TB Enhanced Response.
Metro Evangelical Services
Metro Evangelical Services (MES) is a community-based Christian organization and NPO that began its work in 1986 and is based in the inner city of Johannesburg, Hillbrow. MES seeks to “change the heart of the city” by offering a variety of services to address to problems of homelessness and poverty in the inner city. MES has 4 strategic areas of concentration: basic care and support; housing; health; education, training and job creation.
Bophelo-Impilo Community Association
The Bophelo-Impilo Community Association (BICA) is a grass-roots NPO that began in 1984. At the time of its inception residents of Soweto and Orange Farm were boycotting the government’s black schools. In order to address the lack of quality education as well as poverty in the townships, a number of mothers came together and established BICA. Through their association they initiated their own private school for black children. Later on they began to take on income-generating initiatives in the community.
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