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A QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF THE COMMUNITY WORK PROGRAMME UMTHWALUME CWP

14 Nov 2011

The home based care washed the grandfather and they cooked something for him to eat.” “I saw it is important especially the home based care for those who are sick and for disabled children.” The community members identify improvements that could be made for the people who provide services through CWP in the community and that the working days need to be increased. [...] The assistant is there to help you with that child and is able to solve the problem.” “I have noticed that we don’t push each other and we don’t play roughly.” The students and the teachers share that the CWP teachers assistants are needed and valuable, when the teacher is absent from the class room. [...] The representatives from the board and the teachers point out that there is a need for improvements of policies and procedures related to the CWP teachers’ assistants function in the school. [...] The crèches are next to the forest so I look after the children like a security.” “Since I started working as a teacher aid I have realise how important my presence is to both the teacher and the kids because I help the slow learners to catch up with the rest of the class because the teaches have so much to do they sometimes do not attend to the more needy kids” “CWP is helping so much with home b. [...] The beneficiaries also identified improvements that refer to the way CWP is structured and implemented in the community, such as improved communication between the CWP co-ordinators and the work place of the people providing services in the community and community members highlighting the need to evaluate and assess the size and the efficiency of the CWP management structures.

Authors

Janet

Pages
15
Published in
South Africa