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Regional Partnership Network
Botswana Malebogo Malaolo Kelly Kasale Gasegale Sengwaketse
Gase, Kelly and Lebo are independent trainers, facilitators and distributors. They have successfully completed the pilot TOT training programme in 2005 & 2006. Malebogo Malaolo works as a Field Educator in Ringing the Bell, a project spearheaded by the Ministry of Education in conjunction with the Botswana Network of People living With HIV&AIDS (BONEPWA) and UNICEF Botswana. Mobile: +267 7422 7550 Email: robletts@yahoo.com
Gasegale Sengwaketse (SOURCE OF LIFE FACILITATORS & TRAINERS) and Kelefilwe Kasale (STEPS FILM DISTRIBUTORS & EDUCATORS) operate their Botswana-registered and wholly citizen-owned enterprises, conducting training workshops under the auspices of Steps Southern Africa. Gasegale Sengwaketse is involved with the Treatment Literacy Programme, spearheaded by Botswana Treatment Literacy Coalition (BTLC) and Botswana Network on Ethics, Law, and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) in collaboration with AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA). She works with Treatment Literacy Trainers, incorporating the facilitated screening of Looking Good, the Steps film on treatment, in workshops and other treatment literacy training initiatives. She also works as an On-Line Counsellor for Botswana's best selling newspaper, The Voice, counselling clients via e-mail at askgase@thevoicebw.com Tel: +267 392 7957 (Tel) Mobile: +267 7154 0252 (Mobile) Email: gasegale@gbs.co.bw Kelly Kasale is involved with Maisha Yetu (a training project on reporting HIV&AIDS for media personnel in Botswana, spearheaded by International Women's Foundation), and is responsible for report writing and logistics during training workshops. Tel: +267 392 5669 Mobile: +267 7122 1318 Email: kelly2kasale@yahoo.com Lesotho Sesotho Media and Development Sesotho Media & Development (SM&D) is a video resource centre with a collection of various African films including all STEPS documentaries. SM&D operates a Mobile Video Unit. A team of trained facilitators run campaigns of facilitated screenings throughout the country to various audiences even to the most rural communities furthering awareness and discussions on HIV & AIDS related issues so that individuals can make informed decisions. Tel: +266 22 321 446 Fax: +266 22 326 086 Email: sesothomedia@leo.co.ls Malawi ADRA ADRA (Adventist Development & Relief Agency) Malawi was established in 1982, as an organization within the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Malawi. ADRA carries out development and relief work without bias towards race, ethnicity, sex and political or religious affiliation.
Since its establishment, ADRA Malawi has worked with projects within distress relief, infrastructural development, HIV/AIDS and Family Planning, Food Security and Relief, Professional Education, Street Children and Orphans Support and many more, with financial support from various international donors.
Tel/fax: +265 1 822 693 Email: adramalawi@adramalawi.org SASO Salima Aids Support Organisation is a local Non Governmental Organisation that was formed on 4th February 1994 as a community based organisation by Late Catherine Phiri. Since inception SASO has become the leading institution in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Salima district and in Malawi as a whole. The organisation is highly regarded by the government, international NGO's as well as local donors Tel: Fax: Email: salima_saso@yahoo.com Namibia IBIS/Positive Vibes Positive Vibes began as a methodology development unit led by PLWHA within IBIS's Regional HIV and AIDS Programme in southern Africa. Positive Vibes develops and pilots innovative and participatory approaches that enable people living with and affected by HIV to address HIV and AIDS in their own lives, and uses this personalisation process as the foundation for individual and collective action. Facilitated video screenings, including use of the STEPS films, is a key component of Positive Vibes' work. Positive Vibes has worked closely with STEPS in the development and roll-out of video facilitation training. Over the past 5 years, more than 5000 people in Namibia have experienced Positive Vibes' various approaches, which include the STEPS video facilitation training. Most of those trained as facilitators belong to groups of people living with and affected by HIV, and Namibian AIDS service organisations. Thousands more have been reached through subsequent outreach and advocacy initiatives. For more information on Positive Vibes, contact Casper Erichsen on Tel: +264 61 245556 Fax: +264 61 262376 Email: cwe@ibis-na.org Lironga Eparu Lironga Eparu is the National Association of people living with HIV and AIDS in Namibia and was established by a group of Namibians living with HIV and AIDS. With an initial membership drawn from Windhoek, the capital city, membership of the organization has grown to reach over 6000 people countrywide. Lironga Eparu has an office in the national level and offices and has presence in all 13 regions and voluntary operated offices in nine regions (Omaheke, Oshana, Oshikoto, Kunene, Okavango, Otjozondjupa, Katima, Karas and Hardap). In addition, Lironga Eparu has more than 63 support groups countrywide.
Tel: +264 61 213 638 Fax: +264 61 213 635 Email: lirongaeparu@lirongaeparu.org www.lirongaeparu.org Yelula/U-khai Yelula means, lift up in the Oshiwambo language. The name reflects the energy, drive and spirit that exists in all of Yelula and its partners' activities. Yelula is at the forefront of working with communities and individuals in rural northern Namibia, to strengthen their resources and support their vision in the response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic.Through networking, training, grants, mentoring and outreach, the project: Enhances grassroots organisational and leadership capacity
Tel: +264 65 231373 Fax: +264 65 231294 Email: yelula@ibis-na.org www.ibis-na.org Swaziland SNAP The Swaziland National AIDS program was established by the Ministry of Health in 1987 as an initial national response to the epidemic. SNAP was mandated to develop and coordinate the national effort. The main aim of the program was to reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS through information, education and communication, promoting and distributing condoms, managing sexually transmitted infections and ensuring safe blood transfusions. Tel: +268 404 8443 Fax: +268 404 5397 Email: vusim.snap@swazi.net FLAS Family Life Association Swaziland remains the leading organisation in the field of youth sexual and reproductive health services including HIV and AIDS in Swaziland through the delivery of innovative, youth focused services; the sharing of best practices and knowledge through advocacy, partnerships and sustainable gender sensitive service delivery models that result in the prevention and reduction of unwanted pregnancies, maternal mortality, sexual transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, unsafe abortion and gender based violence.
Tel: +268 505 3082/5852/5144 Fax: +268 505 31 91 Email: flas@africaonline.co.sz http://www.flas.org.sz Tanzania TANOPHA Tanzania Network of Orgnisations of People Living with HIV/ AIDS started in 2001 as a coalition of 15 PLWHA organizations. Since then it has grown to become a registered network of about 60 members covering the whole country.
TANOPHA's core business it to build the capacity of its members to implement advocacy programmes more effectively. This is done through workshops and training programmes for its members. The network also links its members with different donor agencies; provide information as well as mitigation services to its members.
Tel: +255 22 276 1263 Email: tanopha@yahoo.co.uk http://www.tanopha-tz.org AIDNET In November 1999, two local freelance volunteers in Zanzibar, sharing the common goal of helping struggling community to find means and ways to solve their development problems, realized that local communities have difficulties accessing resources to support community development initiatives. There is a need to build a bridge which will connect communities with the resources that they need, and through the creation of a committed organization, working with and advocating for partners on the needs of the communities they serve, AidNet Zanzibar is linking them to diverse opportunities and resources which can be utilized to boost development initiatives and empower people with the skills to enable them to sustain their development and make poverty history.
Telephone: +255 754 378 026/ +255 754 774 260 Email: aidnet@zanlink.com or aidnet@hotmail.com Zambia Kara Counselling Kara Counselling and Training Trust is a non-governmental, non-denominational, charitable organisation. It started as a project in 1989 and became an independent registered trust in Zambia in January, 1991.
The main activities of the trust are: Provision of voluntary and confidential HIV/AIDS counselling and testing services Provision of general counselling services to individuals and families Provision of support and care for persons living with HIV Training of HIV positive persons in community AIDS awareness, positive living and peer education skills Provision of skills training for income generation activities for persons living with HIV Provision of training courses in counselling and homebased care for health practitioners Provision of care for AIDS orphans and street kids
Telephone: +260 1 222 776 Fax: +260 1 229 848 Email: kara@zamnet.zm Afya Mzuri Afya Mzuri, "Good Health" in Swahili is a Zambian NGO specialising in implementing HIV prevention and wellness programmes for workplaces and host communities. The organisation offers the following services: HIV Workplace Policy development HIV Peer Educator Training Workplace Seminar Programmes Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Care and Support Services; and Resource Centre Services
Telephone: +260 21 1 232 942/3 Fax: +260 21 1 232 944 email: enquiries@afyamzuri.org.zm www.afyamzuri.org.zm Zimbabwe NAC National AIDS Council coordinates the national response to HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe according to the Three Ones Principal which is One strategic frame work, One coordination mechanism and One M & E system. It also mobilizes resources for the national response in addition to the home grown National AIDS Trust Fund which is calculated as three percent of the income tax of all workers in Zimbabwe.
Telephone: +263 4 791 170-3/8 Fax: +263 4 791 243 Email: secretariat@nac.org.zw Website: http://www.nac.org.zw |
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