Name of project
Starting date
January 2002
Main objective
Implement an orphan care
Amount contributed
SEK 20 460 000 (May 2005-December 2008)
Results
General information
The partnership with CADEC started in Jnuary 2002. The first agreement ended in 2005 and this was extended to June 2008.A second agreement was launched in May 2005 and ended in December 2008. CADEC Masvingo provided educational assistance in the form of block grants and fees to a total of 7 185 children involving 41 schools. 2 299 were in secondary schools while 4 886 were in primary schools. A total of 84 desks were distributed to schools. Three behaviour change workshops where conducted in the schools in the programme areas of Zaka, Bikita and Masvingo. Four psychosocial support camps involving a total of 142 where held during the year under review.
Through the programme 112 OVCs gained access to various medical centres mainly in the Masvingo Rural District Council clinics and hospitals within Masvingo. To facilitate food security open pollinated varieties of maize seed were distributed to the fifty two child headed households in the programme area as well as to 148 village and kraal heads for use in the "zunde ramambo" or communal fields for the benefit of OVCs. A total of six granaries for storing grain from the communal field were constructed during 2007 and the Swedish Ambassador officially handed over the granaries at a launching ceremony held at Chief Mugabe's homestead in the last quarter of the year. Four two roomed flats out of the targeted five flats were constructed in an effort to provide accommodation to identified child headed households. Supplementary feeding in the form of corn soya blend was provided to 29 primary schools. Expecting mothers also had access to the porridge. In order to assist children with disabilities thirteen wheelchairs were purchased and distributed.
A number of consultants were engaged by Sida in order to prepare CADEC for Sidas exit. The organisation received training in child rights, child abuse, psychosocial support and bereavement counselling. The programme was also made to align to the National Plan of Action for OVCs.