Monthly Dignity Packs for 120 Swati Kids in 2022

As an organization, 2023 has been a financially challenging year as we have seen our funding decrease significantly. This has to led us cutting certain projects and scaling up our funding. We are still mapping our way through for this year but one thing that hasnt changed is the need for the dignitary hamper donations for our children.

Our last distribution was in December. From the 134 sponsored learners, 50 hygiene packs were distributed to the extremely needy sponsored learners  from our four partner high schools to help them survive over the holidays.Speaking to the career guidance teachers, they are very happy with the dignitary packs program as a lot of needy children are benefiting from it thus boosting their appearance and self-esteem.

Our Biggest challenge is the inconsitent total amounts from donors, that make it difficult to give to all the children on our list. 

Moya is a CBO that strives to support communities. This project focuses on the needy children who are experiencing difficulties in catering for these.  Both young girls and boys benefit from our partner schools, to make sure that they get assistance with hygiene packs through the schools from this program.

 Dignitary Packs distribution

We’ve kicked off our dignitary packs distribution to our different partner schools (Lobamba Lomdzala, Lobamba National, St Annes, and Bosco high school).  Moya distributed about 180 items to four High Schools for the past three months. In each school we work closely with career guidance teachers in identifying children who are needy. Moya distributed sanitary pads, toothpastes, soaps, shoe polish, body lotion and roll-ons, each school gets 15 items of each.

Change

Speaking to the career guidance teachers, they are very happy with the dignitary packs program as a lot of needy children are benefiting from it thus boosting their appearance and self-esteem.

Challenge: The items are very small for the groups, the schools have a very large number of needy children, and it’s a pity we cannot help them all.

DIGNITARY PACKS PROJECT

Moya is a CBO that strive to support communities. This project focuses on the needy children from they are experiencing difficulties in catering for these.  Both young girls and boys benefit from our partner schools, to make sure that they get assistance with hygiene packs through the schools as this program.

2022 Dignitary Packs distribution

We’ve kicked off our dignitary packs distribution to our different Primary partner schools (Esitjeni, Bethany, Mahlanya and Mphetseni).  Moya distributed about 155 items to four Primary Schools. In each school we work closely with career guidance teachers in identifying children who are needy. Moya distributed sanitary pads, toothpastes, soaps, shoe polish, body lotion and roll-ons, each school receives 15 items of each.

Who’s next?

High schools are next on the line, as in no time we will be kicking off the distribution of the dignitary packs to the different high schools that we work closely with. Most our sponsored students in these schools benefit from the dignitary packs project. Each child receives what they need the most and not all the items.

The need for dignitary packs has increased as the cost of living has drastically increased in the country. Fuel prices have increased two times since the year began and that in turn increases the prices of items in store. We are in the middle of social and political uprising with a fifth wave being projected for April 2022. Times are hard and the school calendar has shifted many times.

The new school year will begin on the 5^th of April 2022, which means that we can only resume our distribution of the packs in school during the second week of April. We will be doing the shopping to replenish supplies on the 24^th of March 2022. In the interim, we have been distributing to our Psychosocial support cases. These are usually child neglect, sexual and physical abuse cases in the community. There is always a child caught in the middle and not being provided for. There are 12 children currently being supplied with dignitary packs on a monthly basis.

The next distribution will be done in the 4 Primary School and 4 High School that we partner with. The neediest children are identified by the guidance teachers who work in collaboration with our PSS department.

Moya is a CBO that strives to assist communities. This project focuses on adolescents to make sure that they get assistance with toiletries as they embrace the changes in their bodies. Both young girls and boys benefit from this program. However, girls still seem to experience more cases of lack of hygiene items hence this project still focuses more on girls. We would like to inform our sponsors that this project has gone a long way into restoring the dignity of our youth and it assisted in getting away with the anxiety that comes with the lack of hygiene items.

We have been experiencing few cases of Covid-19 but we are still behind on the vaccine roll-out. The need to assist communities has grown since head of families continue to lose jobs due to Covid19.With the schools being closed now and again, young people get to have plenty of time doing nothing. There has been increased cases of teenage pregnancy in the community. As an organization that is based in the community, we have taken time to educate young people about Sexual Reproductive Health.

We continued to support young people with providing the dignity packs. We distributed the items in (8) eight schools, (4) four high schools and (4) four primary schools. In the past three months, we distributed about 125 items. With schools still closed due to the unrest, we have seen a number of young people coming to our organization for the dignity packs. This is especially to those who live close to Moya. Moya has youth Clubs in the community, some young people use those clubs to ask for the dignity packs. Young people still need these items even though they are at home. Hence, they are welcome to come to Moya.

With the political unrest and Covid19 negative impact on families, there is a growing need for the hygiene hampers. We have also seen a rise in the number of young people who lack the hygiene hampers. Our donor’s continued assistance will go a long way into keeping the dignity our young people and ensure they are spared from the stress and anxiety that comes with lacking the basic hygiene.

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