News

October 2007

Oasis selected for Gauteng Community Health Worker training programme

The Gauteng Department of Health recently selected Oasis South Africa as one of twelve organisations in the province to join the department’s community health worker training accreditation programme.

A consultant employed by the department, Maputle Industrial Relations, will guide the organisations through a nine month process, leading to Oasis becoming a SETA accredited training organisation.

The Oasis training course will result in students becoming accredited community health workers, enabling them to access stipends for their work while also linking the community health work Oasis does with the government’s primary health care system.

 

September 2007

Pre-school programme launched!

Oasis SA like most of the Oasis bases around the globe has embarked on Pre-School Teacher training! In conjunction with the Social Services Department of Diepsloot and another NGO (Emthonjeni) in Zandspruit we will be training 30 ladies.

Both these settlements are in the northern outskirts of Johannesburg.

The Diepsloot trainees are all currently working at Pre-schools, where as most of the   Zandspruit trainees are still in the beginning phases of their preschool journey.

The ladies in the programme are all very excited, especially because they will be doing an accredited course. We have chosen an accredited programme called Play-With-A-Purpose and at the end of training, trainees will receive an NQF 4 ECD Certificate. This is equivalent to the final year of school.

It's wonderful to know that the children of these informal settlements will be greatly and positively impacted by the skills that their teachers will acquire!