Our days of Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) for chronic diseases in the communities where we work continue. We rotate to each of the four communities presently, changing locations each week. We do testing and education in that particular community on Tuesday and Saturday. We have started in a fifth community, Thabo Mbehki, and hope to do VCT there sometime soon. Also, two new employees are supposed to start this week at our sixth location, Videotown. It's exciting to see this type of growth and changes in the programme. We are transitioning to have caregivers who live in a community also work in that community. This cuts down on extra transportation needs and is really our ultimate goal for home-based caregivers. The pictures above are from a VCT day in Joe Slovo, which is the community directly beside Refilwe. The top one pictures four home care workers: Elizabeth, Elyse, Diana, and Peggy. The second photo is Elyse (the home care worker) with a girl she's hired to work in her small tuck shop (which she runs as a side business). We encourage the home care team to develop other skills and support them in training so that they can develop to a point that will let them move on to bigger and better things. This is the goal of Refilwe and the government in these types of programmes.
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