Improving the lives of children and youth
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roadmap
The CSTL National Support Pack has been customized, from the Regional Support Pack, specifically for South Africa. This material was developed in partnership with the Department of Basic Education. It consists of a road map (poster), action step cards (large and small), 12 action step booklets and 2 additional information booklets.
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Prevent violence in schools focuses on enabling and supporting learners to take action to prevent violence in their own schools. It includes a workshop programme for learners followed up with school-based mentoring support.
The programme is part of a wider initiative, Safer South Africa for Women and children, launched in 2012 by Save the Children South Africa, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with the Department of Basic Education and funded by DfiD. Prevent violence in schools forms part of the safety and protection priority area of the DBE’s Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) Programme
Programme materials include two publications:
• Prevent violence in schools. Learners taking action. Learner book
• Prevent violence in schools. Learners taking action. Facilitator and mentor guide
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This booklet, available in isiZulu, covers all the basic information from how HIV spreads to how learners can help in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Download: Game Board
A fun board game aimed at adolescents, about choices and consequences with regards to sexual health and wellbeing. The board includes questions and answers, chance blocks, safe places and detours due to pregnancy, HIV, substance use and relationships.
The pack consists of a board, six tokens, dice and six sets of question cards.
Download: my_working_future
This resource book, aimed at adolescents, discusses sustainable livelihoods, business skills and career choices. My working future, part of the RHIVA extra-curricular Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, has been developed through a partnership between the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and MIET AFRICA.
Download: Staying Healthy Booklet
This resource book discusses sexual health and wellbeing. Staying healthy, together with companion resources (Life Orientation material for Grades 10 and 11 and material for an extra-curricular Sustainable Livelihoods Programme), has been developed through a partnership between the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and MIET AFRICA. Topics include condom use, sugar daddies, virginity testing, polygamy, rape, healthy relationships, nutrition and HIV and AIDS facts amongst many others!
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This booklet is available in isiZulu and provides information on how to budget and draw up your own income and expenditure sheet. It also shows parents and caregivers how to draw up their own business plan.
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This booklet is available in isiZulu and provides information on how to set up a vegetable garden.
Download: SCCS Case Study
The SCCS programme, an example of a school-based response to the ever-increasing numbers of orphans and vulnerable children, is an innovative model which focuses on the importance of multi-sectoral partnerships for tackling poverty, HIV and AIDS and other diseases.This case study presents an outline of the SCCS model; from its evolution, to implementation and to the extension of the pilot to the SADC Region.
This project supports the Department of Basic Education’s call to make “schools centres of community life”. It helps schools and communities to work together to make sure that all children receive the care and support they need. This booklet (available in isiZulu and English) includes: An information booklet about the project, an A1 poster on supporting children to learn and an A1 poster on getting involved in your children’s school.
