Category Archives: Community Health Evangelism
Let’s make a movie together!
One of the organisations we assist in South Africa is Bell Valley Initiative (Sindi works for them). The care for orphans and vulnerable children, particularly those in granny or child headed households.
A friend recently offered to make a short DVD of the work they do.
Pictured are some of the ladies walking in Nomzamo and the [...]
Community visiting
Lyn is also getting more involved in visiting those in the community. She visited a young man of 20 who was very sick and weighed no more than 8 stone. His family had gathered around and Sindi had asked if Lyn would come and pray. She told Lyn she should not cry!! Lyn prayed with [...]
Sindi & Lizo
We meet regularly with Sindi & Lizo. They are still very much our main eyes and ears in the community. One of our main roles here is to simply support them in all that they are doing.
They regularly recount many heart rending incidents – which are very much every day experiences for them. Pictured with [...]
CHE proving to be very much in need
The CHE project is continuing with Sindi and Lizo doing a great job. The main challenges are ensuring that the volunteers are doing the visits they commit to and providing them with the support and resources they need.
The CHE home visits are resulting in some excellent feedback regarding the sad situation for many household who [...]
CHE Graduates take to the stage
At the end of March we celebrated the “Graduation” of 36 CHE volunteers and committee members. This is a solution that empowers communities to really make a difference themselves. The event was very much “African Style”. When each graduate collected their certificate the response to them from the audience of almost 200 was more like [...]
Update from CHE
The training of the initial committees and volunteers is now complete and they started to visit their neighbours from early December, teaching the curriculum selected by the committees as being appropriate for the main needs of the community as identified by them. These include HIV education, lessons on drug and alcohol addiction, violence, unemployment and [...]
A close call
The Community Health Evangelism (CHE) training sessions which we are helping to deliver in Lwandle & Nomzamo are all going really well – but it’s not all plain sailing… after one late evening session we gave a lift to two of our female committee members (Pretty & Nokutala) who live 2 km away at the [...]
Relief v Development
Without doubt, one of the biggest challenges is to help people to help themselves in a way that will be sustainable over a long period of time. To teach people to fish rather than just give them a fish.
But if someone is hungry, they want food and want it now. If they are homeless, they [...]
Quick Quiz
Having completed the course, we realised that we had previously known very little and had many misconceptions about something that affects so many people in the world today. We are therefore giving you a quick quiz we were given to see what you know – hopefully you will find it as enlightening as we did!
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Community Health Evangelism (CHE)
The last thing that we are both involved with is something called Community Health Evangelism (CHE). It has been around for 15 years or so and has been used all over the world in different circumstances. In essence it is a collection of over 1,000 lesson plans covering loads of different subjects.
The CHE curriculum is [...]
