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TASC Community Outreach Counselor, Mr. Nkosinathi Moyo with Peer Educators in the Qomintaba Community.

This program focuses on mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS. Traveling to communities is not an easy thing to do but the positive impact that we see in communities keeps us going.  The new TASC strategic plan helped a lot in outlining the direction in which the TASC outreach unit would adopt as well as helped us to recommit ourselves to our cause. We had to plan our interventions in a way that they had optimum impact in the communities, and this called for the creation of community profiles.

This included, assessing the needs of each of the communities visited by TASC as well as mapping out what other partners are involved with those communities. This process enabled us to plan interventions that were tailor made for the communities.

Community Conversation Enhancement Process (CCEP) continued to help us understand the communities better through assessing their knowledge on HIV and AIDS issues, heir attitudes and practices. Through the CCEP we were able to see the dynamics of the different communities in terms of gender distributions, norms and practices as well as identify gaps in knowledge which informed future topics to be discussed through the CCEP.

Conducting home visits have given us the insight on reality of the impact of the HIV and AIDS pandemic on different families. Through home visits we've been able to make more accurate assessment of the family structure and home environment. They have enabled us to identify both barriers and support systems to clients which in turn helped us to implement the necessary interventions to ensure active participation of the family members. 

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