Our Programmes

  1. Support & Care
  • We offer support to people with chronic illnesses
  • Orphaned and vulnerable children between the ages of six and sixteen years who come to King’s Hope in the afternoons for a meal, homework support and life skills training
  • Provide transitional shelter services to abused women and children in distress
  • Provide food, skills and nutritional services, including food gardens, emergency food parcels and meals for orphaned and vulnerable children
  • Offer referrals to other social and health services where required.
  1. Education and Prevention
  • Provide health education at the local clinic on daily basis
  • Provide education and guidance to pregnant women and encouraging them to attend antenatal care at the local clinic

More of our Programmes

  • Kings Hope educates those with chronic illnesses about their illness and encourages adherence to the treatment
  • Promote good health and prevention of illness
  • Distribution of condoms to taverns and hair salons weekly
  • Our community health workers support patients by encouraging them to complete their TB treatment. Family members and neighbours of TB patients are screened for TB signs and symptoms and are referred for testing where necessary.

Counselling & Support Groups

  • Our social auxiliary workers and pastors provide counselling and support
  • Provide bereavement counselling to families and friends of the deceased
  • The organisation has a substance abuse support group for those struggling with addiction
  • Kings Hope encourages patients with TB and HIV to join the “I ACT” support groups.  During six sessions of open support groups, people learn to accept and adjust to a life-threatening illness while adhering to treatment.  We also provide individual (one-on-one) counselling to those in need of additional support.

Women’s Shelter

  1. The main of the establishment of the shelter was to meet the needs of destitute and transitional women facing either abuse or trauma from their families. The shelter gives hope to the women and through counselling, support groups, skills development and meeting transport needs according to need
  2. Since its establishment in 2018, abused women accessing the shelter have been provided with housing for a period of between three to six months
    • Trauma counselling was offered by a professional Social worker. This service faced interruption at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic however it was resumed due to ongoing pyscho-social needs of women at the shelter
    • Family re-integration has been successful for most women exiting the shelter
    • Skills transfer of women in order to prepare them for the world of work and decrease financial dependence on partner or spouse
    • Three meals are offered on daily basis with the assistance of two rotational house mothers who are responsible for the upkeeping of the shelter.
    • Sound partnership with key stakeholders like the Police station, local clinic and the department of social development is maintained to ensure two-way referral to and from the centre.
    Outreach & Treatment
    • Kings Hope runs outreach programmes in the community.  Home visits are offered to the sick and frail at home while at public venues education continues to ensure more education on signs and symptoms of chronic conditions, prevention measures and people and screening for Tuberculosis continues.
    • Performing health education dramas at schools and during special events
    Providing end of life care for the terminally ill.
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