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When I officially started work on the 7th of January 2019, I called upon all our members of Solidarity Community Care Organisation (SCCO) to start the year 2019 on a very positive note. I appealed that we must take our motivation from 2018, which has been a very successful year for our organisation.

We continue to rejoice in the fact that 2018 has been "the year of clothes" for Solidarity Community Care Organisation because of the huge amount of clothes that we received donated by the Japan 🇯🇵 Relief Clothing Center, a non-profit organisation based in Osaka, Japan. Such clothes were distributed widely free of charge to HIV-positive people, orphans and vulnerable children, women - especially pregnant women, the elderly and poor people in general in Ohangwena, Oshikoto, Khomas, Oshana and Omusati regions of Namibia.

Up to now, they can be seen worn by public members all over the country, especially the yellow and black printed t-shirts. We have clothed this nation in 2018 and we must be proud of that big achievement for the rest of our lives.

As a result of receiving and distributing the donated clothes, our organisation received more members and became more popular in the community during 2018.

2018 was also the year of the holding of our 2nd AGM, on the 15th of September, at which we decided to transform (change radically) our organisation.\

Therefore, we must, altogether, work as a team to make Solidarity Community Care Organisation bigger and better by 2023. That is our vision, our main goal at the moment.

All our members must, therefore, work hard and with innovation towards that goal of transformation (changing) of our organisation into a professional and sustainable institution.

Our organisation cannot continue the same way as it has been for the past 13 years, it must grow and improve its capabilities, in order to deliver more and better services to our clients in the community. We owe it to ourselves as members, our clients, and our communities.

2018 was the year of improved cooperation and networking with our partners and stakeholders, especially in Khomas and Omusati regions of Namibia. We also got new donors, such as Namib Mills, that is supplying food for our Soup Kitchen Project in Khomas Region.

We ended the year 2018 with yet another big initiative and achievement in the form of a successful Bazaar organised by our Omusati Community Care and Development Team in November.

The Oshana Community Care and Development Team also followed and held its Bazaar in December 2018, but it was not that successful as the one of Omusati Region.

At that time, I proposed that this great initiative of organising bazaars must be taken on board (owned) by the organisation so that it becomes one of the permanent methods of making money for the organisation. This remains our position, six months on, and will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Since then, our Community Care and Development Team in Oshikoto Region followed in the footsteps of Omusati and Oshana regions and held its successful Bazaar in May this year, and the Khomas Community Care and Development is about to hold its Bazaar at beginning of August 2019.

In pursuit of this great idea, all regions remain under instructions to organise similar regional events to raise money for their regional teams and, eventually, the organisation as a whole.

So, the next regions to organise their bazaars must be Khomas and Ohangwena to be followed by a National Bazaar of the organization. This must be the first action of the remainder of the year by the concerned regional teams and the organisation as a whole.

Our focus in 2019 is to make Big Money for the organisation, starting with the payment of our N$50.00 annual membership fees as members. If all our members pay their membership fees, the organisation will make about N$50,000.00.

The word 'make" instead of "get" is deliberately used here because if we want our organisation to have Big Money it has to start with our contributions as members. So, all of us must pay our annual membership fees to help our organisation grow and become strong.

To make Big Money for a Bigger Impact, I, once again, call on our generous donors, friends, and supporters of Solidarity Community Care Organisation, wherever they are, to help fund the organisation and its programmes in 2019. In this regard, we will continue to approach many of them formally to request their support in the remaining months of the year.

So, as we move through the second half of the year, our focus as members, donors, friends and supporters of Solidarity Community Care Organisation must continue to be on Making Big Money in order to make a Bigger Impact in the community.

This must continue to be our major strategy until the end of 2019, at which time we will review the progress made and decide how to proceed from there.

Let the work continue seriously for the rest of 2019. I count on your valuable support as usual!

SOLIDARITY COMMUNITY CARE ORGANISATION REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 15 APRIL TO 15 MAY 2020.

Home- Based care and support

Networking and smart partnerships

(outside)

Counselling, Health education and Information

Orphan and Vulnerable children support

Regional reports received

Condom Distribution

The Internship Programme

Other Care and support services

1. Eleven (11) clients given home-based care in Khomas Region.

2. Two (2) clients given HIV Treatment support.

1. Eighteen (18) clients educated on COVID-19 in Khomas and Oshikoto regions.

2. Thirteen (13) clients educated on medical male Circumcision in Oshana Region.

1. Oshana report received on time but only one member reported.

2. Oshikoto report received on time.

3. Khomas report received.

4. Ohangwena report not received.

5. Omusati report not received.

1. Six Hundred and Ninety-Nine (699) condoms distributed to male and female clients in Khomas Region.

2. One Hundred And Forty-Four (144) condoms distributed to male clients in Oshana Region.

The Internship programme is ongoing; with 4 and 3 interns in Ohangwena and Khomas regions, respectively.

Two (2) interns completed and the remaining ones are finishing end of this month.

The 2^nd Intake targets 12 interns, 6 in each region and will run from June to August 2020.

1. Milk and food donations were received from Namibia Dairies and Namib Mills respectively on 21 April 2020.

2. Twenty-three (23)

members and 2 interns benefited from food donation in Khomas Region on 22 April 2020 to feed their families and children during COVID-19.

3. Forty-one (41) members and interns applied to MoHSS to join the campaign against COVID -19 in the country on 30 April 2020.

4. Ten (10) fundraising letters were sent out.

5. 100 gloves and 10 hand sanitizers were donated by two members Khomas Region.