Health
Children require food, shelter, warmth and basic hygiene for healthy development.
POP provides:
- Parenting-Skills Training for teenagers and young parents.
- A baby unit which provides vulnerable infants with a safe environment, good food, stimulation and lots of love.
- Feeding schemes which provide hot meals each day for pre-schoolers and all children attending the after-school project. High nutritious E-Pap is delivered to other rural pre-schools and feeds 700 children.
- Safe houses on farms where children can seek shelter away from alcoholic and/or violent parents.
- Food gardens where organic vegetables are grown to help feed hungry families.
- Sexual health and HIV/Aids education for teenagers and young adults.
- Healthcare home-based care training, which includes: vitamins, immunizations, supervision and treatment of people with TB, HIV/Aids prevention and care and sexual-health counselling.
Did You Know?
More than four million children in South Africa are unable to get state child-support grants because their births have not been registered.
