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Celebrating Ubuntu

Community Health Clubs Graduating in Umzimkhulu

August 2009

In January 2009, 10 communities within Umzimkhulu, one Local Municipality within the Sisonke District, began training as members of Community Health Clubs (CHC), a new initiative piloted [...]

Durban Informal Settlement CHC

Johanna Road Informal Settlement

October 2009

Hygiene Behaviour change monitored in Umzimkhulu

BACKGROUND

Umzimkhulu Municipality in Sisonke District of KZN was selected by the Department of Water Affairs to pilot this project that was initiated as part of the IWRM (Integrated Water Resource Management) programme being funded by the Danish Embassy (DANIDA). Umzimkhulu was part of the Eastern Cape until it was recently absorbed into [...]

Rise From Your Sleep

8th April, 2009

Umzimkhulu is one of the most disadvantaged of all areas of South Africa. Levels of water provision by government are unacceptably low, with 80% of the community within this project still using unprotected open water sources. In addition, the recent base line survey shows that hygiene and sanitation practices [...]

Umzimkhulu Base Line Survey

March 2009. J. Rosenfeld & J. Waterkeyn

The base line survey has been completed for Umzimkhulu and provides some guidelines as to the most pressing gaps in health knowledge that can be filled and hygiene behavior that can be changed by the Community Health Clubs. Based upon the results of this report, [...]

KwaZulu-Natal

Creating ‘Common-Unity’ and ‘Vehicles for Development’ Through Community Health Clubs

UMZHIMKHULU GEARING FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: Municipal News.

Published by the Municipality of Umzhimkhulu, Dec. 2008

Starting in October 2008, selected villages within the Umzimkhulu Municipality will begin their training as members of Community Health Clubs (CHC), a [...]

Western Cape

Background

Half an hour from the beautiful city of Cape Town, where a green ribbon of sophistication wraps around the famous Table Mountain, stretch the infamous Cape Flats, a flat gray carpet of chaos and crime where the less fortunate flock to seek work. The swelling numbers of migrants, mainly from the Eastern Cape, dwell [...]

Philisanani Health Club

Philisanani is an indigenous non-profit organization based in Khayelitsha, Cape Town in South Africa that is dedicated to improving the health and social conditions of people living in both formal and informal settlements. Founded in 2007, Philisanani was created by members of a health club started by Savior Maqualoti who was trained by Africa AHEAD [...]

CHCs starting in Umzimkhulu

15th January, 2008. Getting Going at Last

This week marks the culmination of almost a year’s efforts by Africa AHEAD and DWAF, to start up CHCs in the lovely foothills of the Drakensburg Mountains, one hour south of Durban in Umzimkhulu Municipality, Sisonke District, Kwa Zulu Natal.

The concept [...]

Hygiene Promotion Partnership

The Hygiene Promotion Partnership (HPP) intervention will consist of training communities in safe hygiene at household level, coupled with the use of cleaning products, particularly soap for hand washing. There are 70 community based facilitators each responsible for two clusters of 10 households. The clusters are in effect small scale health clubs and the methodologies [...]