Bahlakoana, Executive Director
t: +266 2232 4673
m: +266 5888 4995
f: +266 2232 4674
e: office@sentebale.org

Postal Address:
PO Box 644
Maseru 100
Lesotho

Physical Address:
307c Cenez Road
Maseru West
Lesotho

In London:
Kedge Martin, Chief Executive
t: +44 20 7024 5673
f: + 44 20 7024 5660
e: info@sentebale.org

Postal Address:
Clarence House
London
SW1A 1BA
UK

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Health:
Mamohato Network Camps, Kick 4 Life, Touching Tiny Lives

Care Orphans:
Mants'ase Children's Home, Semonkong Children's Centre, Reitumetse Church Project, Malibuseng Children's Home, Pulane Children's Centre, Help Lesotho

Education Special Needs:
Kananelo Centre for Deaf, St. Bernadette's Resource Centre for the Blind, St. Angela Cheshire Home for the Disabled Children, St. Paul School for the Deaf, Thuso e Tla Tsoa Kae Handicapped Centre, Morapeli, Phelisanong, JTC

Vocational Training:
Beyond Bikes Association, Letsema

UNICEF, UNAIDS, MOET, MOHSW, Lesotho College of Education, NAC, NOCC, GFATM, LCN

Sentebale is a charity which partners community based organisations who are directly concerned with the well-being of the most vulnerable of Lesotho's children including herdboys, the abused, disabled, neglected, hungry, ill, abandoned or poverty-stricken. Sentebale was founded by Prince Harry and Lesotho's Prince Seeiso to help the forgotten victims of poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic ravaging this kingdom.

Sentebale is both a funder and provider of services to OVC. They seek to work at the grassroot, community level with traditional structures. They are committed to funding small but dynamic organisations in Lesotho that are really making a difference in their communities. They work in four strategic areas.

1.Health HIV and AIDS
2.Care: Integrated Community Care, including children's centres
3.Education Special Needs
4.Education and Vocational Training

Sentebale supports orphans and vulnerable children by supporting community-based organisations in Lesotho dedicated to their care.

Sentebale's current Partner organisations are:

'Mamohato Network and Camps is a Sentebale initiative in partnership with the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, the Baylor College of Medicine Childrens Foundation-Lesotho and other local clinics. Through a series of one-week residential camps, a network of monthly Teen Club meetings and occasional Caregiver Days, HIV positive children receive much needed psychosocial support, care and education about living healthy lives with HIV. Weve seen our children accept their HIV status, gain hope for the future, improve their adherence to life-saving antiretroviral drugs and feel accepted, respected and loved. We plan to continue to partner with local clinics to hold more camps and establish Teen Clubs in all ten districts in Lesotho. We also plan to build a purpose built Youth Leadership and development centre for the Mamohato Network and future camps will be held here.

Juvenile Training Centre (JTC): Sentebale is assisting the Juvenile Training Centre (JTC) with capital development, through training and supervising the refurbishment of their assessment facilities. It will help improve Young Offenders vocational training facilities as part of their rehabilitation and include the staff development to enable them to be more effective.

Kananelo Centre for the Deaf: provides deaf children between the ages of 5-18 years with primary education and vocational training in a boarding school setting.

Kick 4 Life: Sentebale funds 70 sports scholarships through K4L with a specific target group being HIV+ secondary school children who are OVC. The aim is to provide a tailor made scholarship which covers support needs for HIV+ children to help keep them in school.

Malibuseng Children's Home- Maseru East: Sentebale funds the running costs for their new home built in Partnership with Habitat for Humanity. 20 OVC live here and all now have a safe home and attend school as well as have dedicated carers to look after them.

Mants'ase Children's Home: a residential home for 50 orphaned and abandoned children aged 2 through 18 years old. Sentebale helps fund running costs and management of the home which also does outreach into the local community to look after orphans.

Semonkong Children's Centre: an orphanage for 80 orphans, with additional outreach to 31 families such as grandparents, widows, and other vulnerable children including 45 herdboys in the Semonkong area.

Morapeli Centre for Children with Disabilities: provides boarding for 42 children with physical disabilities who are integrated into a nearby community primary and high school, They also provide vocational training for those not involved in formal education.

Phelisanong: centre and school for 70 children with multiple disabilities with a primary and secondary school for the community and its residents. They need urgent help building a dormitory block that was demolished due to poor construction. Phelisanong is in process of registering the primary and secondary schools so that it can get government support under the free primary program.

Pulane Children's Home: Pulane Children's Home is a faith based organization that accommodates 45 OVCs in Mt. Moorosi; it is managed by a committee with representation from the local chiefs, the Roman Catholic, Methodist, Sion, and Lesotho Evangelical Churches. Pulane receives both technical and financial assistance from Sentebale.

Reitumetse Church Project: provides clean water and adequate housing and clothing for communities in need in Mazenod area. Sentebale funds 2 teachers and 21 scholarships for female orphans in secondary school being cared for at RCP.

St. Angela Cheshire Home for the Disabled: provides temporary home to 45 children with physical disabilities with a goal of improving the quality of life through rehabilitation and support services and community involvement. Each child goes to either the local primary or secondary school close by.

St. Bernadette's Resource Centre for the Blind: provides primary education for children with visual impairments and development of life and social skills. Sentebale provides a contribution to running costs and specialist equipment.

St. Paul School for the Deaf: a primary school of 70 students which develops academically, socially, spiritually, and culturally competent deaf students who can respond to the broader needs of society. Sentebale is contributing to the running costs of the school.

Thuso e Tla Tsoa Kae Centre: Aims to provide a specialised primary and boarding school for children with multiple disabilities especially those with mental disabilities. Thuso e Tla Tsoa Kae will be a National Referral and Resource centre in line with the Ministry of Educations strategy. Sentebale has refurbished the old school and is building a new assessment centre and accommodation as well as supporting the management and running costs of the school.

Touching Tiny Lives: Touching Tiny Lives (TTL) is a local charitable trust dedicated to helping children less than five years of age affected by HIV/AIDS. At the core of the Touching Tiny Lives model is an outreach program that supports children in their homes by providing nutritional, medical, and educational support. A complementary PMTCT (prevention of mother to child transmission) program works with pregnant mothers to prevent transmissions to newborns. TTL fills critical gaps in the existing public health infrastructure and also provides unique and highly successful services that are otherwise lacking entirely. Sentebale supports the administrative cost and nutritional supplements for the children who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

Sentebale supports these and further partners with management services as well as funding assistance. Sentebale's involvement with its partners is active and dependent on the organisations ability to produce measurable success in the lives of the children in their care as well as clear accountability for the funds allocated.

Child Status Index (CSI): Sentebale is implementing the CSI with all our Partners as a tool for assessing, developing a care plan, and monitoring outcomes for children. The use of CSI is now a requirement of being a Sentebale Partner because we believe it provides a focus on the needs of individual children and helps prioritize those needs. It also allows service providers to demonstrate how they have used donor money to improve key outcomes for children across the 6 main domains of CSI.

Sentebale has trained all our Partners, and we are working in partnership with Virtual Purple Professional Services (VPPS) who have customized the adaptation of the CSI assessment tools in both English and Sesotho into an easy to use computer software package.

Letsema: With funding from UNICEF, Sentebale is also responsible for managing the Letsema Network, an initiative to encourage Lesotho-wide cooperation between service providers who are working with OVC.

The Letsema network continues to strengthen and expand. Letsema includes updating the Letsema website (www.letsema.org), a monthly forum for information sharing, a quarterly newsletter, and the production of an OVC bilingual directory.

Sentebale is planning a lot for the future. Specific plans for 2009 and 2010 include development of vocational training partnerships and work specifically with herdboys and OVC.

This will be accomplished through pilot projects for the Integrated Community Care program area, in a series of limited geographical areas. The first will be in Semonkong, building on the Methodist Children's Centre (MCC) as a community hub coordinating with partners in education, health, social welfare and vocational training.