Bantwana project gives E200 000 to ten schools

THE World Education Bantwana Project has presented 10 schools with E200 000.
Each school received E20 000 in the presentation held at the Tum’s George Hotel yesterday.
The 10 schools from the Lubombo region include Khalangilile Primary, Sigcaweni primary and high school, KaMkhweli primary, Gilgal secondary, Siphofaneni high, Langa High, Lasi High, Dlalisile Primary and High Schools.
World Education Bantwana Country Director Thulani Earnshaw said the schools were selected to pilot the Bantwana Schools Intergrated programme that work with school committees and schools to provide a range of comprehensive services.
He said the programme aims at improving the lives of children receiving services and strengthening capacity of their schools, communities and caregivers to provide and advocate for them.
Earnshaw said the project would reach about 2 500 OVC in the 10 schools of Lubombo with a range of integrated services.
“Once the pilot project has been evaluated and refined, this approach will be scaled up and implemented throughout the country as well as the region.”
The Country Director said the project aims to build a sustainable and replicable mode of integrated care and support to keep the children in schools and provide them with the basic services they need for healthy physical and emotional development. He said through the use of schools as a platform for delivery of OVC care and support services, the organisation offers a spectrum of critically needed interventions to OVC.
Earnshaw explained that the money was not to be used by the school for its needs but was specifically for the support of OVC.
He said the schools were expected to start up projects that would generate more money for the school to be able to meet the needs of most needy children.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Mavis Vilane said the project was accomplished by building the capacity and skills of school committees and equip them to take decisions, plan and implement small local projects, and actively engage the community in overseeing and advocating for the support of OVC in their homesteads and communities.
It also offers an integrated and comprehensive basket of services that include psychosocial support, nutrition, primary health care and hygiene, livelihoods as well as education.
She said it was important to involve the OVC in the decisions that affect their lives and to engage the support of the teachers, principals and communities in advocating for and supporting the needs of the OVC.

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