Our Six Programmes
Mashambanzou offers holistic health care through six interlinked community outreach programmes. These programmes operate in the poorest high-density suburbs of Harare and include- Orphan Outreach
- Home-Based Care
- Mashambanzou Care Unit
- Choose Life Programme
- WFP Feeding Programme
- Nenyere Day Care Centre
What We Do
* Care for the sick in their homes
* Provide counselling and psychosocial
support to their families
* Treat opportunistic infections
* Ensure comprehensive care and follow-up
* Refer people in need to clinics and other community-based support
* Identify, refer and follow-up patients on anti-retroviral therapy
* Deliver life-honouring palliative care
* Distribute medicines, soap and nutrition to home-based patients and orphans
* Supply blankets to orphans
* Assist orphans with school fees, uniforms and school supplies
* Offer grief and bereavement counselling, particularly to orphans
* Provide spiritual support
* Impart life skills
* Encourage voluntary counselling and testing
* Fight stigma and discrimination through public awareness
* Provide information, education and counselling materials
* Reach out through education and counselling specifically focused on coping
with stigma
* Train volunteers in basic care management
* Train primary caregivers
* Mobilise communities and empower them to take charge
This video from DLRfilmsNYC gives a sense of the difficulties faced by orphaned children in Zimbabwe.
TSITSI
“I kept on thinking about my two children and decided on what
to do. Positive thinking and sharing with others are the two things
which helped me to remain calm and have hope.
I joined a support group and started a sewing project to stay mentally
active. I have achieved happiness, better health and I look forward to a brighter future.”
