| Noah |
 Noah (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) is a registered not-for-profit organisation with the sole focus of building the capacity of communities to care for their orphaned and vulnerable children.
The Crisis
The SolutionIn response to the realisation that we face an "epidemic of Orphans", Noah, Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity, was conceptualised at the end of 2000. The sheer number of orphans ruled out traditional charitable or institutional models of care. Our model is designed to reinforce the communities who are already caring for the orphaned children in their midst.
Noah's model is one that starts with an approach by a community to Noah to assist them to care for their Orphaned and Vulnerable children. Noah assists in mobilising the entire community to this challenge resulting in the formation of a committee of community leaders to focus on the children. They are trained in the needs of children and in turn recruit a volunteer group. This group are trained and then find and register the orphan children in their community. They assist these orphan children to obtain birth certificates and apply for child support grants. Volunteers then continually check up on the circumstances of the children and refer them to the appropriate agency as needed. *This information was taken from: www.noahorphans.org.za |
