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Kebotlhokwa Care Center

Nature of Organization

Kebotlhokwa Care Center is an advocacy-based organization and a member of Pan African Positive Women Coalition (PAPWC), focusing on the rights of children, Adolescents and Youth to access relevant information and services for Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Rights and Justice.

The focus is on early childhood development, protecting children against all sorts of abuse, access to services such as Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, information, psychosocial support/counselling including access to Justice.

This is achieved by supporting their mothers as Care takers, training them on parenting skills, economic empowerment, and supporting them against gender inequalities, gender-based violence by provision of shelter.

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Mission

Reframe the issues of Children, Adolescent and Young people in Botswana to advocate for more effective responses through harnessing the untapped experiences, talents, lessons learned from the community, local initiatives and policies. To contribute towards national priorities including the elimination of new infections in the society, Advocacy to promote access to comprehensive integrated Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Rights services, economic opportunities, elimination of Gender Based Violence and Gender Inequalities which will be an important area of emphasis.

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IWD with Kanye District Council

Activities

1. Month of Youth Against HIV in Collaboration with KSDAH

2. Non-Communicable Diseases (education, Screening, and referrals)

3. Gender equality (Empowerment/Training

4. Gender Based Violence

5. Abuse documentation stories

6. Community engagement during the 16 days of activism against GBV

Support given is:

HIV/AIDS positive Children, Adolescent and Youth are empowered with skills to leave a positive and dignified life, through our strong partnership with Botswana Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. Support is given through health education on ART adherence, Viral Load monitoring, STIs, Family Planning and NCDs. We also assist them by linking the defaulters back to the clinic and improving Viral Load for those who are not suppressed.

Prevention with the negatives is done by offering and creating the demand on the uptake of Prep and PEP education.

Support is also given to the abused Children, Adolescent and Youth, through counselling, access to justice, shelter and raise awareness on the effects of Gender Based Violence.

Support is also given to the Children, Adolescent and Youth who are against the law, through counselling, and psycho-social support, where we offer family counselling to determine the root of the abuse.

Support is extended to perpetrators who are willing to change, as a way of reducing bitterness and anger and to understand the triggers of violence and root causes.

Support is given to young parents to cope with the burden of parenthood. Raise awareness of neglect, as it is common among young parents. To have a crèche for children, especially for defiled mothers and teen mothers.

To advocate for ‘Neglect’ not to be an offence for mothers only but to the fathers as well, for equality purposes.

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Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Rights

Sexual reproductive health rights are the ability for one to decide about their own body, a choice to use contraceptives, to have or not to have children, be free from all sexual violence, including rape, forced pregnancy or abortion, and forced sterilization.

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Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (Young Women and Women)

Sexual reproductive health rights are the ability for one to decide about their own body, a choice to use contraceptives, to have or not to have children, be free from all sexual violence, including rape, forced pregnancy or abortion, and forced sterilization.

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HIV/AIDS Prevention and care work

Supporting HIV negative adolescent with information on prevention. Pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP as commonly know is an HIV prevention option for the adolescent as the high at-risk group to acquire HIV to lower the chances developing HIV.

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TEEN & Youth Clubs

The role of the club is to help the young people cope and be able to thrive with HIV. To promote adherence to adhere to medication (ARV). Support disclosure and psychosocial. Provision of Mental health and Counselling services.

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Non-Communicable diseases

HIV affect the risk of non-communicable diseases like Hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancers are all on steep upward trajectories. People living with HIV are faced are at the high risks, hence the need for screening and early detection of the non-communicable diseases.

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Gender Equality trainings/empowerment

Empowering of both males and females about the state in which access to rights or opportunities is unaffected by gender, and why all genders should be free to pursue whatever career, lifestyle choice and abilities they want without discriminations.

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Gender Based Violence

KCC has long incorporated GBV and Human Rights approach as the bases of the implementing her projects and responses. This has also included direct beneficiaries, by providing shelter and support services like Psychosocial support and Mental health and Emotional support.

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Child protection programme

KCC has prioritized child protection services that encompasses the rights of all children as stipulated in the Botswana Children’s Act. This includes protecting children f neglected children, inheritance, children denied access to the other parent, children bullied at school, children against the law and abused children.

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Counselling & Psychosocial Support

The center has assisted and support 3 young men aging between 21 and 24 years to abundant the idea of committing murder, they were in the edge of killing their girlfriends and committing suicide. They received counselling and finally realized that their lives matters including those of their girlfriends. This is support that they felt they could not have gotten from the police or even their parents.

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Gender based violence through the provision of shelter

KCC has prioritized child protection services that encompasses the rights of all children as stipulated in the Botswana Children’s Act. This includes protecting children suspected to be in danger of abuse or neglect, to assisting children who conflict with the law.

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Defilement counselling for children

Kebotlhokwa has supported more than 10 defiled children, by offering counselling, working with the schools to facilitate the young mothers to return to school, and also to give them support by making follow ups with the police and the cases to be prosecuted at the courts of law. This is a long-term process that usually takes years.

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Suicide in Kanye

Attempted suicide:

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Women

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Youth

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Committed suicide all males.

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Rape 2022/2023