Oak Zimbabwe Grants for Health, Including HIV/AIDS (2005)

• Bulawayo Island Hospice Service

  To provide training to 90 home-based carers looking after terminally ill people. (Over three years)

• Child Protection Society

  To provide institutional support by financing the salaries of the Director and various administrative personnel. (Over three years)

• Dananai Centre

  To support orphans and vulnerable children through the provision of psychological support, food, blankets, uniforms, school fees, and the development of medicinal gardens.

• Family AIDS Caring Trust Chiredzi

  To support the scale-up of the Orphans and Vulnerable Children programmes, which provide psychological, material and school-fee support, by expanding the geographical coverage to wards Six to Ten in Matibi. (Over three years)

• HOPE Humana People to People

  To support HOPE’s HIV/AIDS voluntary counselling and testing programme, including its expansion into the rural areas of Bindura and Rushinga. (Over two years)

• Mashambanzou Care Trust

  To support AIDS orphans and provide home-based care support in the informal settlements of Budiriro, Dzivarasekwa Extension, Kuwadzana Extension and Porta Farm. (Over three years)

• Matabeleland AIDS Council

  To fund three new community organisations operating in peri-urban communities and a community of people living with disabilities at the National Council of Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe in order to assist the NGO to identify and address the needs of orphans and vulnerable children within these communities.

• Salvation Army

  To provide support for the Masiye Camp’s five Life Skills Camps for Children affected by HIV/AIDS so as to reduce the psychological impact of the epidemic on their lives in addition to co-funding the salaries of the Director, Field Officer, Camp Coordinator and Accountant.

• Student Partnership Worldwide – Zimbabwe

  To complement and sustain the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture’s HIV/AIDS and Life Skills Education programmes and the Ministry of Health’s Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health programme through the effective empowerment and mobilisation of youth in selected schools and clinics of Gwanda District.

• Zimbabwe Association of Church-Related Hospitals

  To fund the purchase of two operating theatre tables for the St Annes Brunapeg and Morgenster Mission Hospitals.

Active Grants From Previous Years

• Batsirai Group

  To provide and build the capacities of communities to mobilise resources and actively participate in the care and support of orphans and vulnerable children in Mashonaland West Province. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Family AIDS Caring Trust Nyanga

  To support targeted communities in Nyanga to provide home care to the terminally ill and provide care and support to vulnerable children and needy orphans infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Family AIDS Caring Trust Rusape

  To support orphans and vulnerable children through a capacity-building programme for community-based organisations involved in orphan care and HIV/AIDS home-based care activities in the Makoni District. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Harare Children’s Hospital Mildmay Centre

  To create an HIV-specialist clinic and day-care centre, a joint project between the Harare Children’s Hospital and Mildmay International, to provide quality holistic care to children living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, and to provide training for health professionals and an outreach programme in the surrounding communities. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Island Hospice and Bereavement Service

  To make hospice care more accessible to the terminally ill and their families in Chitungwiza. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Kubatana Vocational Training Centre

  To support the continuation of a home-care and orphan-support programme, as well as a vocational training centre. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Mashambanzou Care Trust

  To support AIDS orphans and provide home-based care support for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS patients in Mabvuku, Tafara, and Epworth high-density areas in Harare. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Midlands AIDS Service Organisation

  To promote and strengthen community home-based care services for people living with AIDS and to support the community response to improve the quality of care of orphans in both rural and urban areas. (Second year of three-year grant)

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