Jalien Westhuizen

NDLOVU CARE GROUP (t/a NDLOVU MEDICAL TRUST)

Ndlovu Care Group is an innovative, multi award winning community development group that has been operating in rural areas in South Africa since 1994. It is the Ndlovu Care Group dream to replicate their ‘Rural model for Community Health and Development' to other rural areas in South Africa that lack access to quality healthcare and sustainable community upliftment in cooperation with National Governmental Departments. Sustainable upliftment through community mobilisation The group initiated the development of the model in 1994 in the Elandsdoorn Township, Limpopo Province and aligned their objectives with the Millennium Development Goals, to assure validity and applicability in the broader context of poverty relief. The second site opened in 2007 in Lillydale, Mpumalanga, proving that replication is possible, economically viable and successful. The third site is currently under construction. The foundation of the replication is built on partnerships. Partnerships based on cooperation between Corporate Social Responsibility Programs, a wide range of international Program Donors, Public Sector involvement and Ndlovu Care Group The Ndlovu model divides operational activities into two broad groups: Community Health Care and Community Development Programs. The impressive Ndlovu site boasts amongst others an excellent clinic that includes on site dedicated HIV monitoring laboratory, a maternity hospital, digitalized X-ray, IT infra structure, sports grounds with gymnasium, amphitheatre with music academy, nutritional units with pre-schools, daycare facilities, water and waste projects, and numerous entrepreneurial efforts including its own bakery