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FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION
Annual Report First 4 Years:
2000–2003 Text-only Version
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GRANTS 2000 – 2003
Zimbabwe
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Population
Population under age 18
HIV adult seroprevalence
Orphans as percent of all children
Total number of orphans
Percent of orphans due to AIDS
Total Firelight funding
Number of grants given
Number of grantee-partners
Percent of grantees regranted
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12.9 million
6.7 million
34%
18%
1.02 million
77%
$322,350
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38%
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BETHANY PROJECT, Zvishavane |
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2002 – $10,000 |
The Bethany Project extends holistic
child-centered care to families struggling with HIV/AIDS in Zvishavane,
Central Zimbabwe. Grant funds are supporting Bethany’s Community-Based
Orphan Care Project, providing educational support, emergency food assistance,
youth HIV prevention activities, and ongoing monitoring of families affected
by HIV/AIDS.
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CHILD PROTECTION SOCIETY (CPS), Harare |
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2003 – $15,000 |
CPS has a 40-year history in Zimbabwe
of providing quality preschool education, as well as residential care and
support to disabled, abandoned, abused, and HIV-infected children. They
have played a leadership role in transitioning support of orphaned children
to community-based arrangements. Firelight funds support CPS’ movement
of 60 orphaned and vulnerable children from institutional to family-based
group home care. A portion of the grant is covering palliative care expenses
for terminally ill children.
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2001 – $20,000 |
Grant funding supports the salaries
of caregivers, a nurse, cooks, and other personnel. These staff run the
Chinyaradzo Children’s Home (a hospice care facility for terminally-ill
infants), serve as house parents for children in family units, and teach
at the Colin John Campbell Preschool Center.
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$15,500 |
This grant purchases a vehicle and
the costs of three desktop computers, one printer, and software.
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DANANAI CENTRE, Murambinda |
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2002 – $10,000 |
Working in a government-designated
industrial zone, Dananai Centre conducts community outreach to meet the
needs of more than 1,000 families affected by AIDS. Grant support enables
Dananai to provide school fees to 400 vulnerable children and meet the needs
of approximately 80 sick, homebound children. In addition, funds are supporting
12 day-long community mobilization workshops to generate support for children
in difficult circumstances. Grant funds also allow Dananai to train community
members working with children affected by AIDS in home-based care and psychosocial
support, and to hold a children’s forum for 112 children.
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FAMILY AIDS CARING TRUST – CHIREDZI (FACT–Chiredzi),
Chiredzi |
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2003 – $15,000 |
Chiredzi, a mining area in southeastern
Zimbabwe, has been heavily affected by HIV/AIDS. The mine’s employees
are mostly migrant laborers, far from their families, who have discretionary
income to spend on a variety of things, including sex workers. Seventy percent
of Chiredzi’s sex workers are HIV-positive. The Family AIDS Caring
Trust operates throughout Zimbabwe, implementing a comprehensive model for
community-based orphan care. This grant, to the Chiredzi branch of FACT,
supports 800 orphans with a combination of material goods (food, blankets,
and clothing), home visits, educational expenses, psychosocial support,
and skills training. Funds also cover FACT-Chiredzi’s child-centered
advocacy efforts, training for 1,295 orphans on how to secure birth certificates
(necessary for school registration and claiming property), and training
for new caregivers on appropriate care of vulnerable children.
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2001 – $8,000 |
The funds are for an integrated
HIV/AIDS prevention and care outreach program that includes community- and
youth-focused education, counseling, home-based and orphan care programs,
and income-generating projects.
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FARM ORPHAN SUPPORT TRUST OF ZIMBABWE (FOST), Bindura |
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2002 – $19,800 |
The wife of a commercial farm owner,
passionate about children’s rights, founded FOST to respond to the
special needs of children on commercial farms. This grant provides for the
training of six out-of-school youth in leadership skills, basic counseling,
and emergency needs at Masiye Camp (see description, page 85). The six trained
youth serve as peer educators and mentors to approximately 300 younger children
affected by AIDS on six commercial farms. FOST youth leaders guide and support
young children through the bereavement process. They run youth clubs within
six farming communities. This grant also supports networking meetings of
the youth leaders and FOST staff and enables FOST to document the youth
leadership process, to include production of a manual and other materials
for future use.
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GENERAL BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES, UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
(GBGM), Murewa |
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2003 – $9,000 |
This grant is assisting four orphan
trusts in Murewa that have demonstrated the capacity to provide both material
and economic development opportunities to vulnerable children. Each trust
offers a comprehensive program of outreach and care, including caregiver
training on income-generating activities, educational assistance for orphans,
and volunteer training in home-based care.
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GIRL CHILD NETWORK (GCN), Chitungwiza & Rusape |
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2003 – $30,000
Two-year grant |
In 1999, several young women and
their teacher decided to do something about the gender-based violence and
abuse occurring in their schools, homes, and communities. They formed a
girl’s club named the Girl Child Network. The girls took as their motto,
“The Sky is the Limit,” expressing their quest to realize their
dreams by overcoming gender discrimination and sexual violence. This grant
assists with the maintenance and administration of the Rusape Empowerment
Village by covering staff salaries and the purchase of a reliable used vehicle.
Funds also support the Girl Child Network’s efforts to raise local
and national awareness of the situation of young women and to offer essential
information and resources to young women struggling to overcome sexual abuse
and gender-based discrimination.
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$5,000 |
A severe regional drought has created
an emergency situation in Rusape, and Firelight is making this emergency
assistance grant to enable the Girl Child Network to provide girl children
in rural areas with food and educational assistance.
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2002 – $2,500 |
These funds enable the Girl Child
Network to cover final construction costs and to convene a community-wide
celebration ceremony for 1,500 people to open the Rusape Empowerment Village,
a safe space for rehabilitating young female survivors of sexual abuse in
rural Zimbabwe.
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2001 – $1,800 |
This grant supports an exchange
visit between staff from the Girl Child Network and staff from Fountain
of Hope in Lusaka, Zambia to learn about alternate methods of providing
services for the vulnerable girl-child.
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$200 |
This grant enables girls in the
Chitungwiza safe house to start an income-generating project.
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$21,200 |
Firelight support assists the Girl
Child Network to build its second safe house in the rural village of Rusape
for girls escaping sexual abuse. Funding also covers counseling workshops
for girls’ club coordinators, to assist them in dealing with sexual
abuse issues among club members.
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Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa/ISLAND HOSPICE,
Harare |
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2003 – $850 |
Island Hospice, the first hospice
in Zimbabwe, provides end-of-life care. In 1999, recognizing the huge impact
of HIV/AIDS on communities in and around Harare, Island Hospice expanded
its efforts to include a community-based children’s bereavement and
counseling program. The Children’s Bereavement Support Project offers
psychosocial support to children who have lost their parents. This grant
enables Island Hospice to send one staff member to the International Children’s
Hospice Congress in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in November, 2002, to share
lessons learned from working in small support groups with children orphaned
by AIDS.
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2002 – $26,000
Two-year grant |
This funding covers the training
of caregivers, hospital workers, and trainers on psychosocial support techniques.
The funds also allow the Hospice to continue its group work with vulnerable
children and to offset administrative costs.
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2001 – $33,000
Two-year grant |
The grant pays for Island Hospice
to train and support institutions and communities involved in the care of
orphans and terminally-ill children. The training includes bereavement counseling
and therapy for caregivers of children and support sessions for bereaved
children.
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J.F. KAPNEK CHARITABLE TRUST, Harare |
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2003 – $4,900 |
The J.F. Kapnek Charitable Trust
started its Strengthening Science for Women (SSW) scholarship program 15
years ago with the goal of increasing the number of young women entering
medicine and the allied health professions. Since 1989, more than 200 women
have participated in the program; more than one-third of them have completed
their university or medical education. This grant represents the second
of two years of scholarship support for 15 young female students who are
completing pre-university studies in anticipation of pursuing careers in
the health sciences.
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2001 – $9,800 |
The funds are for 15 secondary school
scholarships for young women affected by or orphaned by HIV/AIDS who are
pursuing education in the medical and health sciences.
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MAVAMBO TRUST, Harare |
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2003 – $10,000 |
Firelight funding enables Mavambo
Trust to construct offices for staff and volunteers and space for meetings
with children and families seeking assistance. The Mavambo Learning Centre
offers comprehensive assistance – including educational support, counseling,
and food relief – to families affected by HIV/AIDS in Mabvuku and Tafara,
high-density suburbs of Harare.
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MOTHER OF PEACE COMMUNITY, Mutoko |
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2002 – $7,800 |
Mother of Peace Community has built
8 houses to shelter 155 vulnerable children. This grant enables the organization
to engage the broader community by conducting participatory workshops to
raise awareness about children affected by AIDS, training families on practical
skills to meet the needs of orphans and vulnerable children, and offering
economic empowerment opportunities. The program will reach more than 200
vulnerable children on rural homesteads.
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NEHEMIAH PROJECT, Bulawayo |
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2003 – $7,000 |
The Nehemiah Project works with
children in Sauerstown, an extremely poor community outside of Bulawayo.
Nehemiah identifies and offers ongoing outreach to children at risk of becoming
street children or runaways. With this funding, Nehemiah Project supports
140 children living on the streets or in child-headed households through
community outreach and mobilization. They are establishing drop-in centers
where children can obtain food, clothing, counseling, school fees, and materials.
Funds also cover the salaries of two community workers who visit the children
regularly. Finally, they are recruiting community members to invest in the
care and education of children.
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SALVATION ARMY MASIYE CAMP, Bulawayo |
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2002 – $10,000 |
Masiye Camp’s program supports
youth affected by AIDS by training young people who are heads of households
on leadership skills, helping them cope with personal loss, and offering
them a recreational outlet. Masiye Camp is recognized as regional center
of excellence for providing emotional, legal, and life skills support for
children affected by HIV. Firelight’s grant supports the Camp’s
emergency fund, which enables camp counselors to address urgent needs for
assistance presented to them by camp participants. Funding also covers the
food expenses for 12 Life Skills camps, reaching 1,200 youth.
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2001 – $4,500 |
With the grant, Masiye Camp is establishing
an emergency fund that will assist over 200 orphans who participate in camp
activities.
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$6,700
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Grant funds enable the Camp to create
ten eating areas to improve psychosocial interactions of children and their
counselors.
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SCRIPTURE UNION / CHIEDZA STREET CHILDREN’S PROGRAM,
Bulawayo |
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2003 – $5,800 |
Scripture Union, a nondenominational
Christian group, has been working with children, youth, and families in
Zimbabwe for 56 years. Their recent interest in street children’s issues
has led them to develop an area of expertise in working with this marginalized
population. Having discovered that many of the children ending up on the
streets of the nation’s largest cities were from two provinces, they
began to work with youth in those areas to prevent them from leaving home.
Chiedza is one of those areas. Firelight funding for Scripture Union’s
Chiedza Street Children’s Program provides materials for a drop-in
center, including clothes, first aid supplies, toiletries, and equipment.
Funds also support administrative costs and staff allowances.
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ST. AGNES GOKWE CHILDREN’S HOME, Gokwe South |
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2002 – $1,000 |
St. Agnes Gokwe Children’s
Home is a residential care facility for orphans in the isolated rural community
of Gokwe. This grant pays for furniture to upgrade the facilities at the
Home.
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UNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF SOUTHERN AFRICA / BONGANI
ORPHAN CARE PROGRAMME, Bulawayo |
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2002 – $12,000 |
These funds enable Bongani Orphan
Care Programme to offer organizational development training to 12 church
groups with newly-established programs for children affected by AIDS. Training
includes strategies for responding to the impact of the AIDS crisis on children
in the local context. Through these programs, more than 150 volunteers will
reach approximately 1,000 children with vocational training, psychosocial
support, and emergency assistance. Bongani Orphan Care Programme’s
direct services and training activities reach 7,500 children living in Bulawayo
and neighboring rural areas.
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Please note that this Annual Report covers the period from December 1,
1999 through September 30, 2003.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this report, please send
an email to Cheryl Talley-Moon at Cheryl@firelightfoundation.org.
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