Phahamani Group of Volunteers

Like many projects and businesses in the region, the Phakamani Group of Volunteers is extremely concerned about the local community.

While other projects focus on creating employment opportunities, this group has three main aims: to pay home visits to people who cannot regularly visit the clinic for their chronic medication; to help educate and trace people with tuberculosis and the defaulters from treatment; and to educate the community about AIDS, hygiene, nutrition (volunteers teach members of the community to grow their own vegetables) and environmental care.

Selling traditional garments made by the elderly and disabled people generates income, such as firebricks made from waste paper, and traditional meals such as tripe and mageu. Volunteers also supervise a vegetable garden cared for by the aged and disabled, and the excess crop is sold from time-to-time.

The Phahamang Group would like to establish a day care centre with a soup kitchen for those who need to be fed and also to identify those within the community who need physical rehabilitation such as physiotherapy and access to wheelchairs.