What We Do

Approaches

There are no "proven" approaches to deal with the orphan and vulnerable children crisis.

There are, however, existing community-based efforts that show promising results. These initiatives are managed by talented, committed, and entrepreneurial men and women who have taken on the responsibility to raise a large number of children in addition to their own.  In these settings, orphaned children ‘belong’ to a community, where they can develop friendships with their peers, and experience nurturing relationships with young people and adults actively involved in caring for them.

Bantwana identifies promising community efforts and helps local teams build technical, management, strategic, and advocacy skills that bring to bear the resources and political will necessary to affect this growing crisis.

Our Focus

Drawing on decades of experience helping communities address HIV and AIDS, Bantwana:

• Builds the strategic, management, and technical skills of community-based organizations aiming to provide comprehensive care.
• Links organizations to one another and other policy and funding networks to share best practices.
• Monitors and evaluates what works and why.
• Convenes policymakers, government officials, funders, and communities to track and share knowledge, expertise, challenges and successes.
• Mobilizes and leverages resources for advocacy in partnership with existing local, national, and global efforts.