Gogo’s in South Africa

How to work in South Africa - 3A5 Marketing - 2011

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Summary

1- Context: the HIV in Africa

2- Who are these «gogos»?

2- Focus on a «gogo center»

4- Summit of «gogos» : their wishes

Aids all over the world

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South Africa :33,4% of the population is infected (16 473 000 million)

Aids in Africa

Adults died =

More orphans

Lack of : - Information

- Financial means - Infrastructures

AIDS 1/3 of the

population

The impact of Aids on the families

 More than 400 000 children have lost both parents

 Over 1 million children have lost their mothers

 Over 2 million children have lost their fathers

  13% of 2/14 year olds have lost at least one parent

  21% of 15/18 year olds have lost at least one parent

 More than 120 000 children live in child headed households in South Africa

 By 2012…there will be 2 million orphans

The Gogo’s

 “Gogo ” is a Zulu word meaning grandmother

 When parents die of AIDS, the orphans often go to live with a "gogo” because there is nobody else to help them

 As the death rate accelerates, countries and communities simply can not cope.

 As HIV/AIDS ravages families and c o m m u n i t i e s i n A f r i c a , grandmothers have emerged as the continent's unrecognized heroes.

 Surrounded by poverty, hunger and desolation, they care for children orphaned by AIDS, sometimes as many as ten to fifteen in one household.

 These incredibly strong and courageous women bury their own chi ldren and become parents again, ca l l ing on astonishing reserves of love and emotional resilience.

 But they do so with almost no support. Sub-Saharan Africa has overwhelming numbers of children orphaned by AIDS — an es t ima ted 13 m i l l i on , projected to reach 18-20 million by the year 2010.

The gogo centers

 Generally organized in clusters

 Community for local activities

 Concentration around villages

 Activities:  Teaching  Support

 Final objective: care center for orphans

Some NPO’s

 The Non Profit Organization “Safe Africa” helps gogos by sponsorship

  The Stephen Lewis foundation reaches heroic grandmothers caring for their orphan grandchildren.

 Since 2003, they have funded over 300 projects in 15 sub-Saharan African countries

We choose this topic

 We were curious to learn more about these grandmothers called “gogos”

 We would like to give you more information about this phenomenon that concerned particularly South Africa

 The last question is: How these orphans will survive when their “gogos” will died?

Their wishes  To have better health care to their

grandchildren and themselves  To be able to house, feed and clothe

their grandchildren  To send their grandchildren to school   They need he lp t o r a i se t he i r

grandchildren: a real gap between generations

 They need help in the isolated towns (not just in cities)

  They need security and financial independence: a 82€ pension to survive

The « gogos » summit

  B r i n g i n g t o g e t h e r 4 5 0 grandmothers from 12 African countries among the most affected by the AIDS epidemic

  The initiative for this meeting c o m e s f r o m a S w a z i l a n d Fundation and the Canadian Stephen Lewis Foundation

  45 Canadian grandmothers were invited