‘Empower’
Empower was initiated in the year 2013 by
DAPCU Peren which aims to provide quality education to the children
infected and affected by HIV in the Peren district. So that one day these
children will able to bring qualitative changes in their family as well as the PLHIV
community and society as a whole. It was observed that most of the PLHIV in the
Peren district are from poor Economic background and hardly manage with their
daily needs, the Expenditure on their daily needs medical expenses and
education comes to a perplex and many a time the education expenses become the least
importance, This will adversely affect the future of
their family. Keeping those things in mind Empower committee sponsored their
educational expenses.
Empower is a district-specific initiative
and it is not a fund/support received from any Govt. sector. It is purely a
contribution of the individuals who have contributed to the future of Children living with HIV
and their families. In order to monitor and ensure proper the utilisation of fund and the activities, a Committee was formed with the approval of
Deputy Commissioner Peren (2013)
The
committee members consist of.
1.
ADC Peren – Chairman
2.
Dy. CMO /DACO- Member Secretary
3.
DPM (NRHM)- Member
4. President
DLN- Member
5.
Vice President DLN-Member
6.
Dapcu Staff –Member.
With the support of the officers and the
individual the “empower” becomes a very successful activity in building the
future of the CLHIV. Under this
initiative 23 CLHIV have received the benefit
since 2013. The first beneficiaries are pursuing 11 standards and some will be
appearing HSLC exam this year. This report would be incomplete if we fail to
acknowledge the donors who selflessly contributed to the cause since 2013 and
make this initiative a fruitful one.
Empower 2018-2019
The Empower committee decided:
To link the CLHIV to different schemes in
Govt. sector particularly (schemes on education).
Fund drive activities to continue in the
district and support the educational of CLHIV whenever required.
Preference to be given to the students who are
studying in Govt. school to encourage the children to study in Govt. school.
Activities conducted.
6
children were supported with the amount received from the donors.
2 were
linked to Pre Matric scholarship
1
linked to a free basic computer course supported by Nehru Yuva Kendra.
Action Plan( 2019-2020)
The
committee to link all the CLHIV eligible for Pre Matrict scholarship and to link in the 2019-2020 session.
Booklet for Fund drive distributed and to
disburse the collected amount on need basis of the CHILV for 2019-2020 in
August 2019.
The committee decided to support any CLHIV
who are excel in studies and wish to pursue their higher education.
‘Poor PLHIV
travel cost’
Peren is a district where 80% of the
population lived in rural areas, and many villages are hard to reach areas. HIV doesn’t discriminate any Population even to the rural area, many clients were detected
positive from a rural area in the district. These populations fully depended on agriculture for their livelihood and from a poor economic background, where their treatment become a Secondary and
many clients doesn’t have money for their treatment even though they were
tested positive and need to avail the facilities.
In order to achieve the 90/90/90 goal and
encourage HIV positive clients to access ART and Continue their treatment and to
make sure that all the positive clients are initiated on ART, DAPCU Peren
initiated “Travel Cost for Poor PLHIV” in 2016
Activities carried out under this
initiative:
i).
The activity for fundraising was started in August 2016. Dapcu Peren in
Coordination with the HIV facilities in the district organized a Fate day in
which the total amount of 60,000 was earned,
the same amount was invested in a Calendar project in 2017 and in which 96,600 the total amount of earned for the Activity
The initiative was reviewed in all the HIV
facilities coordination meetings.
ii). An amount was fixed base on the area
to the nearest ART/FIARTC.
iii). The counselor and the field staff to
recommend the clients based on the Counseling of the clients and Dapcu to
take the final decision to allot the travel cost.
iv). The preference will be given to the
newly detected clients and lost to follow clients
to make sure that 90/90/90 goal
is achieve and as to part of 0 LFU campaign in the district. The benefit will
be given in cash and the counselor/field staff to counter Sign the slip.
V). An audit committee was formed with the
Program Manager TFA, Counselor ICTC Ahthibung and Data Manager OST Jalukie as members.
As
part of this initiative 5 PLHIV request for the travel and recommended by the
counselor and Program Manager and 5 PLHIV received the Benefit in the 2018-19.
23 PLHIV received this support in the till date.
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