Our Mission

To improve the wellbeing of vulnerable children and their caregivers and families affected by HIV and AIDS and poverty.

Our Vision

We envision a world where all children are healthy, secure, and can reach their full potential.

What We Do

We work with dedicated and innovative community leaders and organizations to build, strengthen, and sustain the services and systems that care for children.

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Putting children and caregivers first

Our evidence-based, socio-economical model of comprehensive care ensures that children and their caregivers have access to the full range of support they need to grow and improve their overall wellbeing. We engage at all levels - working in close partnership with children and youth, families, communities, civil-society organizations, private sector, and governments - to promote transformative, lasting change.

Where we work

In Eswatini, Bantwana operates as aernational non-profit
organization, as well as through its locally registered affliate, Bantwana Eswatini, providing
technical assistance and delivering programs for HIV-impacted vulnerable children, youth and
caregivers. We also partner with government to strengthen social welfare, health and
education systems to respond to and mitigate the impacts of HIV, gender-based violence, and
poverty.
Health and HIV

We work closely with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Training, and clinical and CSO partners to deliver community based HIV and GBV prevention and response programming that mitigates impact, decreases risk, and delivers differentiated and optimized treatment outcomes and links beneficiaries to services. Read more...

Economic Strengthening

With the realities of endemic poverty rife across Eswatini, we embed economic strengthening interventions into much of our programming, providing a layered approach of support to our
beneficiaries, including vulnerable adolescents. These include village savings and loan models, financial literacy, entrepreneurial training, and income generating activities (IGAs), and more. Interventions are contextualized to the needs of the target population and empower participants to increase their economic independence, strengthen their social support
networks, and help to curb the drivers of HIV for girls and women in particular.

Education

We work closely with communities and Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) to rematriculate out-of-school youth into formal school and provide alternative educational pathways as needed. Our Early Warning System, being piloted through break-through mobile technology, works to identify youth at risk of dropping out, and provides the key supports needed to retain them in school. Our proven Mentor Program provides critically needed
coaching and life support to youth to maintain them on their educational path. We are working to reach more adolescents at scale, delivering a mobile-based protective assets curricula, with built-in early warning system and GBV screening tools. We collaborate with the MoET to deliver HIV-prevention and Life Skills Education to all secondary school students in the country (forms 1 -5), reaching over 100,000 students annually

Social Protection

Safeguarding children and vulnerable youth and providing access to post-abuse services is a necessity across our programs. We partner with government, communities, school systems, children, and parents to develop a range of mechanisms to prevent, mitigate and respond to violence against children. Bantwana’s family centered approach works to improve the capacity of caregivers to provide care and support that nurtures child development through positive parental oversight, mitigates stress and conflict, increases  communication, and decreases abuse. Bantwana also collaborates with community structures to support OVC households to remain and stay together, working to enhance communication and decision making, participation, and improve the shelter in which children live.  Read more...

Adolescent Girls and Youth

We reach vulnerable in- and out-of-school adolescent girls and youth with a holistic suite of programming to aggressively address harmful gender norms, increase well-being, resilience, and access to healthy, stable futures; respond to gender-based violence (GBV) and post-abuse care, and; decrease their risk to HIV. Through DREAMS and other programming, we deliver evidence-based life skills and protective assets curricula, re-matriculate out-of-school youth
into formal school and provide alternative educational pathways as needed. Our Early Warning System, being piloted through break-through mobile technology, works to identify youth at risk of dropping out, and provides the key supports needed to retain them in school. Our proven Mentor Program provides critically needed coaching and life support to youth to maintain them on their path to recovery. We are working to reach more adolescents at scale, delivering a mobile-based protective assets curricula, with built-in early warning system and GBV screening tools.

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Systems Strengthening

Partnership 

We are a longstanding partner to government, building the capacity of ministry departments to respond to the critical health, social and educational needs of vulnerable children. We work closely with and have built national systems, programs and workforce capacity of the Department of Social Welfare in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office and the Guidance and Counseling Unit of the Ministry of Education and Training.

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Collaboration

We collaborate closely with the government on all of our programs, working at community
level to address needed supports and services, while collaborating with government counterparts to ensure programming is designed and delivered with scale and government uptake in mind.

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Contribution

Bantwana provides lead technical support to the Department of Social Welfare (in the Deputy Prime Minister's Office), developing the National Child Protection Case Management System, adapted and strengthened the national Case Management System data management, and trained the national child protection social welfare work force. 

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Our Partners

Bantwana partnerships are driven by our core values of programmatic excellence, innovation and collaboration. We specialize in strengthening the capacity of partners to develop the systems and competence to deliver results-based programming, providing technical leadership across the following sub-sectors. The following are our partners in Eswatini:

  1. Georgetown 
  2. EGPAF
  3. UNICEF
  4. Young Heroes
  5. Women Unlimited 
  6. The Luke Commission
  7. Ministry of Health
  8. Deputy Prime Minister Office
  9. Ministry of Agriculture
  10. Ministry of Education & Training

Contacts

Phone

+268 2505 2848 | +2687643 2289 | +2687943 2289

Email

info@bantwana.org.sz

Address

Lot 482, Corner o Mimosa and Syringa Road, Courts Valley, Manzini

Working Hours

Monday - Thursday 0730 - 17:00hrs   Friday 0730 - 1500hrs

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