| 词条 | Sekolo Projects, Inc. |
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Sekolo Projects, Inc. is a non-profit organization that aims to prevent new HIV infections in young people in Namibia. Its work in HIV prevention takes many shapes:
A primary aspect of its educational work is the use of the curriculum Our HIV ABC. Sekolo Projects collaborates with school communities to find and support the best HIV prevention strategy for that community. It was founded in 2004 by Elizabeth L. Robinson, a native of Old Greenwich, Connecticut and received Internal Revenue Service non profit status in 2004. The United States dimension of the project was dissolved in 2015, but it remains active in Namibia. Sekolo has supported the following projects and local initiatives: Projects and Local OrganizationsSekolo Sunrise Kids is a support group for ~300 orphaned and vulnerable children from the Oneshila township outside Oshakati, the second largest city in Namibia. The children who participate in Etango Tali Piti gather twice a week for an instructed dance or soccer activity session. The mutual peer-support received through the discipline of learning, performing and competing builds the self-confidence and self-worth of the children. The care that volunteers give through after school activities is very rare in the tough life of Namibia’s townships. The dance group’s monthly performances give the children deadlines to work toward, and opportunities to celebrate their successes. Similarly, the regular soccer matches with other teams, from local secondary schools and community centers, challenge the boys’ skills and build their self-confidence and team pride. Lüderitz Red Ribbon Soup Kitchen provides three hot meals a week for ~280 learners at the Lüderitz Secondary School, in the coastal, port town in southern Namibia. Since 2007, when Sekolo began supporting the soup kitchen, the attendance records and grade point averages at the school have consistently shown that feeding the children at school keeps them enrolled, as well as more focused and attentive in class. The soup kitchen functions to keep learners in school – they do not need to find work or beg for money or food during the time they would otherwise be learning. It also strengthens the social bonds of the school community, as those students who need food are provided for, and are empowered to continue to participate in the school community. Nautilus Hope Soup Kitchen is located next to the Lüderitz Secondary School and serves as a feeder to the secondary school. The children are given bread and jam each morning, and fruit is distributed once a week along with a regular donation of canned fish secured from one of the fishing companies. The Hope Soup Kitchen fed ~75 children at each meal. Tondoro AIDS Awareness Club (TAAC) has been active since March 2008. The Club provides a forum for discussing HIV/AIDS related issues in an environment where the youth feel safe and welcomed. The 20 learners participating in the Club wanted to spread the message about HIV to their peers at the Tondoro Combined School, and other schools nearby and launched a mini-magazine filled with HIV prevention information and positive messages. Omuhaturua Primary School is situated in the village of Otjimanangombe, in the Omaheke Region, in the eastern part of Namibia, bordering Botswana. The school has 240 learners in grades 1 through 7. Although government grants cover school fees for children who cannot afford to pay, they do not cover the cost of the school dormitory. Forty San learners were sleeping “rough” – outside the school grounds in a makeshift tent, when the situation was presented to Sekolo Projects. Sekolo provided funding for the learners to join their classmates in the school dormitory for one trimester and its Namibian board worked closely with the Principal to secure an additional grant that built a second dormitory at the school. Well-placed publicity attracted the attention of the Namibia's Deputy Prime Minister, who provided funding for blankets and mattresses in the new dormitory. Citations
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