Financial feedback November

Dear all,

As you can read on our website, we report on what's been done at each of our partner projects financially on a monthly basis.

So here it goes!

In November for the Dream Centre funds have been spent on:


- Diversional therapy programmes

Funds have been used for diversional therapy programmes (bingo, artwork, beadwork, transport costs, movie night, etc) with the patients. Diversional therapy activities enhance the patient's mental and physical capacity through interaction in games and social activity. The issues addressed are the need for mental and physical stimulation, hand-eye coordination as well as ensuring that patients get out of bed thus limiting bed sores.
Approximately 50 patients attend each activity. Each activity is held weekly. Patients involved in these activities include patients on the ARV programme and those preparing for discharge.
The programme is reviewed monthly to ascertain its effectiveness and relevance. This review is done with staff and volunteers.
This is a project that has grown steadily and has the interest of the majority of patients. They are pleased at the opportunity to learn skills (beadwork) that can be used in the community thus ensuring that income generating work is done to supplement income.
This project is largely volunteer supervised. Volunteers make purchases and arrange times, venues etc for the project as well as ensuring that patients are brought from the wards and returned to the wards.


Apart from that, two new projects have been identified:

- Building renovations (6 / 5 / 4 floors)
- Educational project


Any input you might have regarding these reports is more than welcome.

Kind regards,

Jetske