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31 October 2006
Good News from Dakama
We have a number of successes to share with you about the Dakama Area Development Programme (ADP).
An ADP is a phased programme that covers a sizeable geographic area over a period of time, beginning with a small group of communities. As communities begin to reach their goals and are able to fund initiatives on their own, World Vision gradually reduces its financial help by reducing the number of sponsored children in those communities
The good news is that after many years of hard work, the Dakama community nearly has the capacity to continue their development work without World Vision’s direct assistance.
This report lists the changes that have happened in Dakama over the past few years, changes that have made such a difference to people’s lives, bringing them hope for the future.
Dakama community achievements at a glance
Education
World Vision, through Dakama ADP, has:
- Constructed and renovated classrooms, school offices and teachers’ houses and provided desks, books and sports equipment
- Organised mock exams to assist teachers and students with their revision before national examinations; the top achievers at each level were awarded prizes by the ADP
- Held refresher training workshops for teachers
- Trained teachers about HIV and AIDS and started HIV and AIDS education in schools
- Held community meetings about the importance of education
- Installed water tanks and sanitary latrines in schools
- Established a school feeding programme to encourage attendance and ensure children get at least one nutritious meal each day
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Solar panels have improved health centre
services, allowing the centres to
function at night.
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Health
World Vision, through Dakama ADP, has:
- Built health centres and provided equipment including beds and microscopes
- Provided solar panels for health clinics
- Held mobile health clinics and educated community members about healthcare
- Drilled community wells and constructed water tanks for health centres
- Immunised children and taught parents about preventative healthcare for children
- Trained village health workers and traditional birth attendants in hygienic techniques
- Educated the community about malaria prevention and treatment and provided subsidised insecticide-treated mosquito nets
- Educated community members about using oral rehydration medication during diarrhoea and fevers; community members have also learned about nutrition and family planning
- Educated community members about sexually transmitted infections and HIV and AIDS
- Set up groups to care for orphaned and vulnerable children and people suffering from AIDS
Agriculture
World Vision, through Dakama ADP, has:
- Formed farmers’ focus groups where farmers learn modern agriculture
- Trained key farmers as village agricultural facilitators, to support the government-employed agricultural facilitators and teach other farmers modern agricultural techniques
- Introduced farmers to improved varieties of seeds so they can obtain greater harvests
- Supplied seedlings and other agricultural inputs to farmers through the focus groups
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After learning small business skills,
such as carpentry, teenagers set up
income-generating groups.
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Income generation
World Vision, through Dakama ADP, has:
- Established 43 income-generating groups, trained them in small business skills, set up bank accounts for the groups and registered them with district officials
- Formed women’s groups and trained them in food preservation and storage
Conservation
World Vision, through Dakama ADP, has:
- Set up primary school environment clubs and trained community members to work with the clubs
- Established tree nurseries in schools
- Supplied more than 1 million seedlings to school environmental clubs for planting throughout the community
- Used a cinevan (mobile cinema) to show videos about tree planting, the effects of tree cutting and HIV and AIDS
Leadership development
World Vision, through Dakama ADP, has:
- Established and trained Muvilada community-based organisation to continue to run development activities in the long term; the organisation has a constitution and is awaiting confirmation of its government registration
- Trained community leaders in development and accounting
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Dakama project profile
DAKAMA STORY ARCHIVE
2007
Conserving the future
Thanks from the heart!
Snippets
Counting down
2006
Achievements in Numbers
Good News from Dakama
Learning to farm
Healthy living
2005
Snippets
Through the eyes of an old man
Leading by example
2004
Snippets
Achievements to-date
2003
Then and now
Spreading the word
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