Cape Town, South Africa Home From Home, a cluster foster care agency
Facts. Lessons Learned My Projects
Khayelitsha: •The challenges surrounding HIV/AIDS, such as •Worked alongside South Africa’s Department of •Largest and fastest growing township in South ability to access antiretroviral medication (ARVs) Social Development and UNICEF in a gap Africa with approximately one million people analysis, a comparison of three models of care
each based in different South African provinces •isiXhosa for “new home” •The large gaps that exist between groups of
people based on the color of their skin •Planned and led a weekly boys therapy group •90% black, 9% coloured, 1% white following REPSSI’s Hero Book model, concluding •The benefits of speaking the first language of with a group outing to a cheetah sanctuary •35 km from Cape Town the community you are serving Home From Home
www.homefromhome.org.za •Attended HIV/AIDS conferences (NACOSA) •52% of the total Khayelitsha population can be
defined as economically active •Led and participated in discussions with university “Home From Home provides supported and students around AIDS orphan tourism based on supervised community-based foster care for Cape Town: journal articles, child development, research, and orphaned, abused, neglected and vulnerable •Main languages spoken include Afrikaans, personal experiences children through a network of small, family isiXhosa, and English •Shadowed social workers at a public hospital homes in disadvantages communities in •The population is 3.5 million people; the second South Africa.” •Collected detailed information about each HFH largest city in South Africa child’s health, school, and family in order to upload
•2010 recipient of the STARS Impact Award the records to an online database as to make HFH •The world’s first successful heart transplant was more efficient and accessible performed at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967 •Created daily programming for the children’s three •Location of the world famous Table Mountain week school holiday and Robben Island
South Africa: Advice •11 official languages •Expect the unexpected! •Currency is called the rand (ZAR) •The more you put yourself out of your
•After the slow dismantling of the Apartheid comfort zone, the more accepted you will be system in the early 1990’s, the first multi-racial by the community you are working with democratic election was held in 1994 Stephanie Peer
This poster was created for the Fall 2011 Global Social Work Poster Session