DOMCCP celebrates Silver Jubilee

09 Jun, 2017 - 00:06 0 Views
DOMCCP celebrates Silver Jubilee

The ManicaPost

Post Correspondent
DIOCESE of Mutare Community Care Programme (DOMCCP) is a registered community-based organisation that operating in Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe since 1992.

Though the organisation was established within the social services mandate of the Catholic Church in Mutare Diocese, DOMCCP provides services on non-denominational basis.  DOMCCP currently operates in Nyanga, Mutasa, Makoni, Mutare and Chipinge districts. The organisation was established during a period when the impact and prevalence of HIV and AIDS was rapidly escalating.

There was great need for an intensive response to the pandemic then.  DOMCCP therefore worked to build the capacity of communities and families affected by the pandemic to mitigate the impact and cope with the effects of the disease.  Today, with the advent of anti-retroviral medicines and the evolution of the pandemic from a medical to a socio-economic problem, DOMCCP has extended its work to supporting a wide range of facets that affect the lives of people, but within the context of HIV and AIDS.

To date, DOMCCP projects are reaching over 125 000 people per year with various interventions.   DOMCCP’s vision is to see AIDS free, productive and empowered communities. Its mission is to empower communities to meaningfully own and respond to HIV related needs contributing towards achieving the agenda for ending AIDS by 2030 in Zimbabwe.

Therefore, all DOMCCP’s project work towards strengthening capacity of communities to respond to the burden of HIV through an integrated health access framework, sustainable livelihoods and rights for vulnerable people in Zimbabwe.  Between 2016 and 2020 DOMCCP will be working to achieve the following strategic objective;

  1. To improve access to quality integrated health care services for 375 000 vulnerable beneficiaries in Zimbabwe by December 2020
  2. To promote access to education and rights for 100 000 children and 150 000 women infected and affected by HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe by December 2020

iii. 25 000 vulnerable households in Zimbabwe have increased house hold income by December 2020

Hope in the Valley

DOMCCP has now increased its scope of work in Honde Valley, this time working for mothers’ and children’s health.

DOMCCP in partnership with the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Programme (MCHIP) is implementing a Community Reproductive New born and Child Health (cRMNCH) project in 14 wards of Mutasa District.  The project targets mothers, fathers, newborns, children, families and communities from 19 health facilities in the district.

The project aims to increase appropriate care seeking behaviour and increased utilisation of quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services, and to improve adoption of key RMNCH household practices in the district.

The cRMNCH project is premised on promoting community ownership, empowerment and participation of community-based health structures such as Health Centre Committees. To improve community and household RMNCH knowledge, practice and appropriate care seeking behaviours DOMCCP is supporting monthly gatherings of families to discuss selected health topics.

These gatherings, called care groups, are led by lead mothers and fathers who receive regular trainings from DOMCCP and Ministry of Health and Child Care.  Within the same project DOMCCP is supporting Health Centre Committees and Family Health Groups to mobilise their communities so that they own and respond to RMNCH problems within their localities.

With technical assistance from MCHIP, DOMCCP is using a community mobilisation strategy that enhance capacity of the Health Centre Committees and Family Health Groups to organise their communities, explore health problems in their localities, plan solutions to address the problems, implement the agreed action plan and evaluate their work.  To date, this project has assisted Health Centre Committees to construct and improve waiting mothers’ home as a means to promoting births at clinics rather than at homes.

The project has provided building materials for Hauna and Jombe waiting mothers’ homes and beds for Katiyo and Ngarura clinics.

The project is also supporting health education activities for 845 care groups who have so far reached 12 535 families with RMNCH information since January this year.

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