Lifelines for Orphans and Vulnerable Children - South Africa

MaAfrika Tikkun, a South African NGO working primarily with orphans and other vulnerable children and home-based caregivers, partnered with the Lifeline Energy to provide 300 Lifeline radios to orphans and vulnerable children in the Gauteng and Western Cape provinces of South Africa. These children live in peri-urban shack settlements and are faced with daily hardships including poverty, disease, substance abuse, domestic violence and poor infrastructure.

Through providing access to information, the Lifeline radios supported MaAfrika Tikkun’s work in palliative home-based care, orphan care, early childhood development and life skills training during after-school informal educational activities. The Lifeline radios offered the communities it was distributed in the opportunity to form listening groups and to discuss issues pertinent to them allowing them to make informed decisions.