What is Kwanda?…

National television that communicates a powerful social message

A major community development project that impacts on hundreds of thousands of lives

A tool for the television audience to participate in a network or community of people changing and improving their communities

Kwanda partners Government Dept of Social Development, Dept of Health,

SALGA, 6 municipalities and CWP

Professional expertise

Crew of Development professionals and training professionals, many drawn from Soul City Training Partners, media professionals, and other specialists

Community Social capital

Networks of institutions within each community, formal and informal, churches, schools, CBOs…

Participants Teams of community members working together to make a difference, initially 50 from each community which will grow over the next six months to around 1,000 people in each community

Sponsors and Media

MTN, BP, DfID, CDC, PEPFAR, and SABC1 to create engaging television and contribute to empowering citizens to improve their lives

Kwanda objectives Project Objective

Increase social capital to enable communities to address their own challenges, and engage with government structures more effectively

Project Message

‘Working together we can transform our communities’

Television Objective

Inspire audience to take action in their communities

Network Objective

Connect active audience to resources that can help them and to those who they can help

Challenges that Kwanda teams addressed

Economic Development Creating enterprises - sewing, baking, farms, establishing community work programmes in each community; Kwanda Klothing Fashion show

Social Development Support for OVCs - creating feeding schemes, getting families registered for grants, getting children to school - addressing HIV prevention, especially multiple concurrent partnerships, addressing alcohol abuse and alcohol related violence

Building social capacity Strengthening relationships with municipalities, businesses, local NGOs, faith-based and community-based organisations

Working with Local and provincial structures

Working with Councillors

Ward Councillors were involved in initial recruitment of teams

Economic and Social Development

Teams have worked with social workers, community and economic development workers, municipal managers, SAPS and CPFs, Schools and SGBs

Community Work Programme

Community Work Programmes being implemented in each site with municipal support

Kwanda’s Reach

500 participants 500 participants

200,000 members of host communities benefit

500,000 people communicate with Kwanda via sms, letters, print, online

2,000,000 viewers and listeners each week

Locations

Mpumalanga Tjakastat

Eastern Cape Pefferville

Limpopo Lephephane

North West Meriting

Kwa-Zulu Natal

Mthwalume

Free State Koppies

Three of the twelve churches in Church Street Koppies

What happened in Rustenburg?

OW learning process

Mass training method that enables participants to organise themselves

Experiential learning

Activity based learning, engaging participants in issues affecting their communities: HIV and Aids, OVCs, Alcohol abuse and poverty

What the Kwanda teams do?

Prevent new HIV infections

Organise HIV testing in their community. Support One Love Campaign. Launch PMTCT campaign

Support vulnerable children

Drive SNOC agenda - transform the local school into a place that not only educates but also helps protect vulnerable children - plant a food garden and create a feeding scheme to make sure every child in their community is eating properly

Improve incomes

Create new sewing, agriculture and building enterprises

Address violence and alcohol abuse

Build capacity to act against unsafe drinking and violence, ensure alcohol-free schools and safe places for children, Ensure shebeens and taverns stick to their licensing conditions and improve safety in and around taverns.

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Kwanda Week …

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Presented from the LIVE show (Ep13) site as it is being assembled, and the stage is being built.

We invite viewers to vote for their favourite community.

We take a look at the series and the community and end each community profile with in an update – what has happened since we last saw them?

We throw forward to next week’s LIVE show

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The final programme…

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Live

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We have brought the original teams together for a live spectacular…

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We see what the audience response across the country has been…

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And the audience votes on which team they feel has made the greatest impact…

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… and we award prizes recognising the individuals and teams that have made the greatest impact on their communities…

And finally…

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.. The Kwanda Award

How can the audience participate?

Watch the series Be inspired by others like ourselves changing

their worlds through working together

Respond Comment via sms

Act … and then tell us via sms or email what you have done. We might come and film your work and you could be invited to take part

Participate in the network

Contact kwanda via sms and get access to information, and to other people and organisations that could help you in your work

Activist contacts organisations directly

Contacts DirectoryAvailable Services Database

NGOs

Gov agencies

Local organisations

Other activists

‘Activist’

Kwanda provides contact info to activist

Activist Contacts Kwanda

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