The programme provides for skills training for orphan and other vulnerable children, including their caregivers.  Skills training targets the vulnerable groups such as child headed households, young widow’s guardians of orphans and other vulnerable children.

DIRECT SUPPORT TO OVC PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEES, PROVISION OF BASIC NECESSITIES TO OVC IN DESPERATE NEED OF CARE AND ASSISTANCE.

Direct support is a short-term intervention strategy that SAHRIT adopted in order to provide for the immediate needs of OVC up until the guardian or parent is able to provide for those needs.  Direct support to OVC is in the form of paying their school fees and providing for other educational needs such as books and school uniforms, provision of basic necessities such as food, clothes, blankets, soap, skills training for older children, start up capital for income generating projects and assistance with special needs related to disability.

COMMUNITY-BASED STRATEGIES IN PROVIDING FOR OVC’S RIGHT TO FOOD SECURITY- THE ‘ZUNDE RAMAMBO” (COMMUNAL FIELD) INITIATIVE

SAHRIT has helped communities in Murewa to resuscitate the traditional concept of the ‘Zunde RaMambo’ or communal field.  The ‘Zunde RaMambo’ is a communal field worked collectively by the community for the benefit of the disadvantaged groups OVC.  It also becomes a bridge building mechanism members of the communities come together to work in the ‘Zunde RaMambo’.  This development is attributed to the training and awareness raised on child rights and the consequent need to protect these rights.

Child Participation Through The Establishment Of Committees Composed Of Children And Young Persons Through Community Theatre.

Child protection committees (CPC’s) composed of children and young persons were established.  The child protection committees were trained on child rights and related issues such as child sexual abuse.  Awareness was raised with these committees on the problems faced by OVC and how the CPC’s could contribute to the realisation and protection of the rights of OVC in their communities.  Prominent among the problems of OVC face in the communities were verbal abuse, property grabbing (after parents died), dropping out of school and forced early marriages.  The CPC’s were also trained on how to administer the stand OVC registration form designed by SAHRIT.  Registration of OVC using the stand form.