Income Generating Activities

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Income Generating Activities

• ECD Learning Community

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What does it mean to us?

• Caregivers will have a little more income to
  better care for their children.

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DCS Experience

• DCS works with with highly impoverished
  communities in the informal settlements.
• High unemployment rate in the area.
• More and more people are disclosing their HIV
  status but often at a very later stage.
• More children are taking care of terminally ill
  parents.
• Grannies are often left to care for children
  aftre their parents die.

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Challenges

• Caregivers are left with children who cannot
  access grants due to lack of documents.
• They need financial relief and we do not offer
  any material benefits.
• Younger caregivers are not interested in food
  gardens as they find them too labourious.
• Grannies are too old to participate in
  agricultural projects.

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DCS Strategy

• Income generating activities for all Caregiver
  and Children Support Groups.
• Children take part in their school garden
  projects.
• Supporting CBOs involved in Income Generating
  Projects for the betterment of childrens lives

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Impact on Children

• Children involved in school gardens can take a
  veggie home to share with the family.
• Caregivers in IGAs have reported an improvement
  in their income levels.
• Childrens needs can be provided for though in a
  limited way.
• Formation of saving schemes with profits divided
  every six months.

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Future Plans

• Formation of ccs.
• Getting training from DTI to form co-operatives.
• Getting loans/grants to further their derams.

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Other Partner Experinces

• Do you have IGAs and what are they?
• Discuss your successstories.
• Challenges?
• Solutions

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Learning and Sharing

• How can we learn from each other?

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Key Messages for the LC partners

• Write down at least two things you learned from
  this session and how you plan to implement them
  back in your programmes.

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