About Topsy

What Topsy does

Topsy brings genuine benefit to the quality of life for a significant number of people in the communities it serves through a variety of interrelated projects, organised under three overall programmes:

• Community Outreach Programme
  • Home-based Care
  • Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
  • Vegetable Gardening
• Comprehensive HIV and Aids Care Clinic (CHACC) Programme
  • Provision of Antiretroviral (ARV) Therapy
  • Voluntary Counselling and Treatment
  • Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
  • Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
  • General Care for HIV and AIDS patients
  • Cervical Cancer Screening
• Skills Training Programme
  • Shukushukuma Beadwork
  • Tinyiko Sewing

For more about these projects, click on the programme and project names above.

Some facts and figures for 2009

• On average we reach 2,799 beneficiaries each month through our Home-Based Care project.

• On average we help 979 children each month through our Orphaned and Vulnerable Children project.

• We distribute approximately 74 food parcels per month, which benefit on average 163 adults and 216 children per month.

• As many as 1057 HIV positive individuals have been seen in a single recent month at out Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care Clinic, some of them up to four times in the same month.

• We have helped over 100 families to start and maintain their own vegetable gardens, and through this project an average of 469 people have fresh vegetables every day.

• We maintain 4 communal gardens which feed on average 223 beneficiaries every day.

• Through our  Skills Training Programme, we have trained 120 women and currently 20 trained craft workers are active and receive a monthly income from it.

• Through our Voluntary Counselling and Treatment programme we have counselled and tested as many as 320 people in a single month.