About Us

To develop and implement quality community based home care and support programmes for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS and TB, the aged and infirm, orphans, vulnerable children, and the youth of Meadowlands, Soweto.

1. To provide quality community based home care and support to individuals living with and families affected by HIV and AIDS and TB.

2. To provide quality community based home care and support to the aged and infirm.

3. To provide nutritional and psychosocial support to orphans, vulnerable children and the youth.

4. To run income generating activities for sustainability.

1. Provide a continuum of qualitative care and support for people living with HIV and AIDS and TB, the aged and infirm.

2. Provide home based care training and capacity building to community care workers on HIV and AIDS, orphans, vulnerable children and youth at risk.

3. Provide DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Shod-course) support to clients on TB treatment.

4. Raise awareness about HIV and AIDS, STIs and TB prevention, testing and treatment to reduce stigma and discrimination.

5. Improve nutritional support and food security for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).

6. Provide psychosocial support to OVC and the youth at risk.

7. Refer clients to service providers, such as Clinics, VCT Centres and Social workers.

1. Home Based Care and support for People living with HIV & AIDS and TB and the Aged.

2. Home Based Care and support for the aged and infirm.

3. Drop in centre and superb activities or Orphans and Vulnerable Children and the youth at risk.

4. Income Generating Activities (IGAs).

Bophelo's care and support programmes the community of meadowland, Zones 1 to 9, Soweto.

1. People living with and alerted by HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) and TB.

2. Orphans and vulnerable children.

3. The youth at risk.

4. Community care workers.

5. EPWP Programme for the Aged.

At any given time our client population averages;

- Home Based Care or PLWHA - 370

- Home Based Care for the aged and inform – 211

- Orphans and Vulnerable Children - 300

6. Member of the Soweto Care Givers Network

7. Developed partnership with Voluntary Service Overseas (UK) for Capacity building.

8. Continued home based care and support to the community even during periods of time or no funding.

9. Retained home based care workers, child care givers and staff in spite of financial constraints.

10. Improved nutritional support for orphans and vulnerable children through drop in centre.

11. Ensured a committed and involved Advisory Board.

12. Sourced donations from NGOs, community, church, local government, NGOs and corporate fraternity.

13. Ensured adherence to and Retro Viral and TB treatment and nursed patient back to health.

14. Organizing awareness campaigns on World AIDS Day, Condom Week, TB Week and Candlelight Day.

1. Lack of after-school support for orphans and vulnerable children (home-work, computer literacy, recreational activities, counselling, life skilles, library, story-telling, art and play therapy, memory work)

2. Lack of de-briefing and psycho-social support sessions for care givers and staff

3. Inadequate uniforms, shoes, caps, umbrellas and rain coats for care workers

4. Lack of Social Worker and Professional Nurse

5. Lack of a diverse funding base for sustainability

6. Lack of vehicle

7. The remuneration of our staff and the management team is not enough to meet to sustain or maintain their livelihood.

8. We are currently renting a government property and we would like to own the building in order to obtain the lease of the currently building we occupying.

9. We need our own transport for staff members and our beneficiaries for their health visits and for our daily business operations.

10 Shortage of staff members for the development of our organization.

11. Limited resources.

12. We need tight security for our premises as we have been experiencing breakings in our premises.

13. Insure our office equipment and office assets..

14. The delay of remuneration for our staff members which is sponsored by funders, demotivate our staff members.

15. Due to the nature of our daily work, we would like to debriefing sessions and distress programs.

1. A seven member advisory committee governs Bophelo.

2. The Management Committee comprises of the Project Manager, Project Coordinator and Administrator.

3. Home Based Care for PLWHA is implemented through a core team of 14 care workers, who have undergone the 69 days Home Based Care training.

4. Home Based Care for the aged and infirm implemented through a core team of 8 care workers, who have undergone 10 days Home Based Care training.

5. Three childcare workers served orphans and vulnerable children accessing the drop in centre.

The organization possesses basic assets for its essential operations and programmes. These include;

1. Office space in the heart of the community.

2. Office furniture and supplies.

3. Telephone, fax, computer system and printer.

4. Kitchen space, equipment, utensils and groceries.

5. Home based are supplies - dry dispensary.

1. Bophelo has six years of solid experience as a community based organization delivering critical services to the communities of Meadowlands and Dube Hostel. We have been extremely successful in initiating, implementing and sustaining a home based care programme in Meadowlands and Dube Hostel as well as a drop in centre for orphans and vulnerable children.

2. Our experience in understanding our community’s challenges, identifying specific needs, designing targeted interventions to address problems and meet needs gives us a strong foundation to continue providing our services to the most vulnerable members of our community.

3. The extent of the HIV and AIDS problem is so vast and the impact so devastating on individuals, families and communities that practical community based interventions, focusing on empowerment, care and support are necessary to mitigate the Impact of be pandemic and bring an end to the suffering of people.

1. Since inception, Bophelo has sewed hundreds of bed bound, home bound and mobile patients through its home based care programme. The beneficiaries of care and support include the aged and infirm, women, men and youth living with and/or affected by HIV and AIDS and related illnesses as well as orphans and vulnerable children. We are currently providing home-based can services to 370 individuals and 300 OVC.

2. We started a drop in centre in October 2006 and have been serving nutritious lunch in the afternoon to over 150 orphans and vulnerable children from the community of Meadowlands (Zones 1 to 3), five times a week.

3. We have sourced donations of clothes and blankets for our home based care clients and OVC.

4. We have established strong partnerships with the local clinic, Social Worker and other community based organizations, which helps in referring patients, children and other clients to appropriate service providers.

5. We are a member of the Soweto Care Givers Network, which offers a platform for collaborating with other organizations providing similar services, sharing lessons learned and getting exposed to best practices.

6. Bophelo is also an affiliate member of The AIDS Consortium, through which it is able to access training and capacity building as well as opportunities for linking up with other organizations operating within the HIV and AIDS sector.

7. Over the years, the organization has been running week-long door-to-door campaigns, using volunteers from the community, around World AIDS Day, condom Week and Candlelight Day to create awareness within the community about prevention, testing, treatment, care and support.

- The Home Base Care programme is implemented and manage by women and men who live within the same community where the services are provided. The care workers are in close contact with their clients and the community during daily home visits.

- The drop in centre is run by a team of five dedicated voluntary child care workers from the local community, who contribute their labour, energy and time without receiving any financial compensation.

- Bophelo operates from an office space secured through the Township AIDS Project (TAP), which is a Non Profit Organization and Custodian (Lease Holder) of the premises. The soup kitchen is being run from within the same building. Bophelo pays a small amount per month to TAP for occupying be premises (including rent, water, electricity, security and gardener).

- The Advisory Board and the staff members come from the Iocal community and constantly strive to involve the local community in the work of Bophelo. The Advisory bordrd members contribute their time and energy without expecting any financial incentives from the organization.

- Strong relationships have been formed with the local clinic, businesses, councillors, social worker, community based organizations, churches and schools, who offer support to clients referred by Bophelo.