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Peka Development Group renovates 230 and
constructs 48 OVC houses |
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The Peka
Development Group (PDG) renovated 230 and
constructed 48 new houses for Orphans and
Vulnerable Children (OVC) families at Peka in
Leribe district during the period of 2007 to
2009.
The PDG Team Leader Mr. Janfeke Hlaping said the
OVC house renovation project is part of Round 2
phase II grant whose objective was to mitigate
the effects of HIV and AIDS to children
especially those who lost their parents due to
AIDS illnesses and those that have become
vulnerable due to this disease.
The beneficiaries are selected by the
care-givers from village support groups who live
with these children and vulnerable families and
know them thoroughly as they visit and care for
them regularly in their respective villages.
Malakia Thoothe, 34 years, of Peka in Leribe is
visually impaired lives with his unemployed
grandmother and other four orphans. This family
was identified by the care-givers as one of the
beneficiary of the PDG house project.
“Our previous house was old, cracking and
leaking. When it rains, the water enters the
room and destroyed properties. The grandmother
had to seek refuge from other relatives for the
four orphans while two of us were still living
here, me and the grandmother,” explained Malakia.
This family’s ordeal came to an end when Peka
Development Group built them a new two-room
house.
“We thank PDG and the Global Fund donors for
making it possible for our family to have a
decent shelter. We did not had any means of
renovating our house as we are not working,” he
added.
PDG was established in 2003 with two members
aimed at creating jobs in order to take youths
out of drugs and alcohol temptations. In 2005
the group expanded their mandates to assist OVC
and chronically ill patients within Peka area.
The PDG started receiving Global Fund support in
2005 from phase I of Round 2 grant and again in
2007 from phase II of same grant. Since they
received the Global Fund support, the group
achieved to build 48 new OVC houses, renovated
130, assisted 1339 patients with transport to
ART centers, donated blankets to 200 OVC and
created 264 jobs for the community. The PDG also
trained OVC on vegetables production and donated
farm vegetables to OVC and chronically ill
patients regularly.
The Round 2 grant phased-out on June 2009 but
its legacy will live forever within Peka
community. “Through the support of Global Fund,
today the PDG is self reliant and established
other income generating projects such as bricks
formation and house construction, to sustain the
jobs of youths and support OVC in our area,”
said Hlaping. The PDG group still maintains the
irrigation farming project as well as trees and
vegetables nursery project.
Other projects of PDG are trees and vegetables
nursery and irrigation project for vegetables
production which were also supported by Global
Fund. |
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