PHILANI'S PROGRAMMES

Since the first Philani Nutrition Centre was established in Crossroads in 1979, Philani has grown to respond to the needs and wishes of the communities we serve. We now operate:

• A community child health Outreach programme linked to home-based nutrition rehabilitation, operating in 10 informal settlements outside Cape Town, reaching 3,000 children and families, an estimated 50 per cent of whom are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.



• A Mother-to-be programme, focusing on prevention of poor birth outcomes and low birth weight children, as well as prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.



• Five Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres in Crossroads, Brown's Farm, and (in Khayelitsha) Site C, Site B and Mayibuye, on the outskirts of Cape Town.



• Six skills (weaving) training centres: one at each Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre and one at the Philani Development Centre. A bead work programme in Site B and Site.



• A craft centre with income-generating projects based on silk-screen and linoleum printing and weaving at the Philani Development Centre in Khayelitsha.



• Six Educare pre-schools: one at each Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre and one at the Philani Development Centre in Khayelitsha.



• A home-based care programme for bed-ridden, elderly adults in Crossroads and Philippi.



• An HIV/AIDS education, care, and support programme, including the Desmond Tutu Scholarship Fund.



• A dental project, providing preventative and curative care and eductation for children.