STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR THE FRIENDS FOR MATIBI (FFM)

1. STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR THE FRIENDS FOR MATIBI (FFM) DATES: 16-19 September 2012 VENUE: Matibi Mission Hospital

2. HISTORY • 4 October 1993 aimed at HIV clients (60km radius) doing CHBC in Maranda, Mberengwa in the context of limited medical assistance • Also aimed at HIV workplace awareness and alerting community about HIV • Dr Ashwanden, SsrMagret, Mr Madungwe (nurse), Redcross facilitators, Driver Mr Gore • FrStoffel was mainly interested in IGPs including community garden but became the focal person for FFM correspondences • Alleviated pressure on Hospital space by engaging home carers to manage chronic illnesses • Wished to formulate self-help groups in the community and peer monitoring for CHBC • Worked with district and provincial health authorities and local government • Mr Madungwe began with training in CHBC facilitated by FACT-Mutare then at Murambinda Hospital where a similar project was taking place

3. History continued • FFM assisted the development of Matibi Clinic to become a Hospital with 125 beds • Infrastructural development e.g. female, male and children’s wards, outpatients hall, staff residences (9 houses), Munoti Centre, solar powered boreholes • Medicinal supplies, equipment e.g.. Fridges • Donations of cash, clothes and food through SsrLeoba etc. • Assisted engagement and payment of more nurse aides and installation of Sister in Charge (formerly Nurse in Charge) • Missereor (from Germany) constructed Matibi Clinic in 1985 • When Dr.Ashwandern transferred to Dreifontein where he facilitated the construction of a Nursing School, Mr Muller remained with Matibi • Dr.Berck did a dressmaking project, donating machines and materials as well as motivating staff • School supplementary feeding and MoyoweTsitsi orphan support (founded by SsrLeoba) raised enrolments in ward 3 primary schools. Currently some sisters from South Africa are still supporting MoyoweTsisti • Stationery kits between 2006-08 kept the schools going eg Home Economics and other prac subjects • Case study of Olivia Shumba, an orphan who started with FFM in Form 1 and is now going to university • FFM came to operate in a context of incessant droughts leading to collapsed services but FFM facilitated with aid in school fees and medical fees, seed fairs to promote drought resistance

4. History continued • Apart from FFM, Fr James built a school block, Mushonganeburi school was supported by Holy Cross Sisters • Dr Ashwanden facilitated training a nurse in theatre and supported with machines, beds, 4 sterilisers, 2 distillers, theatre regalia. Other clinics egNeshuro send their machines to Matibi for sterilisation. • Home craft has ever been supported by FFM with materials (Br SeraffimFr James, SsrLeoba, Sister Raphaels) but parents are taking long to appreciate the importance of the project and hence are discouraging saying that the skills may not help in finding employment. • It can be noted that women who have had skills in Home Craft are finding it easy to handle many household chores and some of them are hired to do home décor outside the country.

5. St Ambrose • Started 1963 as a boarding boys-only Upper Primary School for Standards 4-6 during colonial era • It grew to become a conventional school between 1972 and 1973 when it was teaching a national programme called Remove Class, a transitional phase between Standards and Grades • Ceased operation 1975 during liberation struggle. • 1976 turned into a Home Craft Centre with Sister Gephardt of Gweru Diocese. Feelings then turned towards the need for a secondary boarding school (Inclusive Community Meeting on -- 2012) • Masvingo diocese FrMatibini applied for reregistration in 1999 with a new feeling that the Boarding School should begin from primary to secondary for quality assurance • Re-registered and resumed operation in January 2013 and is faced with maintenance of blocks,

6. Dentistry • Matibi hospital used to have dental service done by Sister LeobaBramlege who was a nurse trained to do dental work • Registered dentists later advocated that only professionals do dental work, making it no more possible for able nurses to continue with the service

7. Dentistry • Dental service is both demanded and scarce in the province as a whole. In Mwenezi district there used to be one dentist at Neshuro but who is no more. • Taking it as a separate income generating project needs a different account to be opened • The project can take a clue from the eye project at Morgenster Mission which has a separate account for their Eye Project • It could be done by a visiting doctor once per fortnight because the demand is not steady • Community leaders are willing to mobilise for the dental service as a way of advertising to raise the demand and they believe that people are going to demand the service as has been the case with Eye and X-ray services

8. CONTEXT • Information about FFM was not reaching to communities as widely e.g. Some knew FrStoffel as a donor but did not know about FFM • Started in an environment where communities were not knowledgeable about HIV but now the project is very welcome • Village authorities supported FFM from start noting the pressure from sick subjects who needed help unconditionally • Other communities used to send their patients to Matibi from as far as Ngundu in Chivi to Sandawana in Mberengwa adding to pressure on nurses but the CHBC programme engaged the communities successfully and the pressure on health facilities is now less • Government was finding it difficult to finance staff engagement but FFM paid allowances for up to 20 staff members who were not on government’s pay sheet through a facility known as the Bruno Allowance named after Mr Bruno Muller until June 2013 • Government is still faced with critical incapacities to cater for staff allowances so that if no assistance is given then many staffs are going to lose jobs as many as 20 • More than 1/3 of staff at Matibi is seconded from the district being attracted by the Bruno facility. As such the facility may not have to cease, or at least it should find a replacement of some kind. All in all, about ½ of all staff may be affected directly or indirectly. • Matibi friends are a faith-based organisation who have supported the church at Matibi in many forms (e.g.. Décor cloths, chairs, candles, garments). Indirectly they have partaken of evangelisation e.g. in educating and leading by examples, e.g. building the new church where communities actively participated e.g. carpenters) • Currently FFM is operating in a context where government is battling with making social services free-for-all e.g. maternity, under-fives, elderly (65+), mentally ill, TB/OI/ART. Now the hospital has faced challenges in meeting the financial gaps since government has limited resources to support free services leading to deficits caused by advance expenditure based on government directives and promises. FFM has here and there assisted to cover some of these gaps e.g. in assisting the mentally challenged. • FFM engages a non-discriminatory stance in terms of religion • VHWs have severally forked out their personal resources e.g. money, soap, groceries to assist know patients in the community because of erratic procurement of allowances . Government and the Holy Cross Sisters used to assist VHWs and CHBC Care Facilitators with these incentives but have slowly failed to meet the level of need further leading to ceasing services. • Sanitation toilets (30% of ward 3), clean/safe water 55% [District Environmental Health Dept.]

9. VISION • A healthy, educated and self-sustaining Matibicommunity

10. Issues shaping the vision • Dura-walling of mission premises due to marauding animals and trespassers. As a result it is posing a challenge to making the place neat. • The hospital is near a township but it is not capable of manning the gates (employing guards). • More houses/flats needed because some houses are housing too many families. • Blair toilets are now full, some of them collapsed (3 closed for siting reasons, 1 collapsed, 4 full) 2 Muchingwizi Flats, 2 for Hostels the wards, 2 Mushonganeburi side, 2 church site, 2 at Hospital. There remains only 2 toilet blocks (1 with 5 holes and another with 1) • Food aid for chronically ill clients used to facilitate voluntary disclosure of sero-statuses and this should go on if an AIDS-free generation is to be achieved • Preschool, primary school and supplementary feeding proving pertinent to cater for orphans and vulnerable children, some are transferring from nearby schools • CHBC clients are beginning to decline seeking treatment due to erratic supply of food • Community garden serving too many people on smaller area so FFM may assist expand the facility. Gardeners are faced with too steep slope from the well and they travel over 60m to fetch water. More boreholes needed at least 1. • Insufficient water/sanitation facilities and community volunteer support meaning risks of outbreaks • Matibi community faced with recurring droughts and erosion of household economies threatening to reduce school enrolments • Communities from over the river Muchingwizi find it difficult to cross to the hospital during rains. HIV clients need to revive support groups but find it difficult due to lack of food and livelihoods support. Visiting patients at home is still necessary to prevent chronically ill clients to slide back into bed as well as to prevent overcrowding of clients at outpatients department. Outreach also critically needed for rehabilitation patients e.g. metal cases and the disabled.

11. Vision contd. • Expansion of internet network needed for workers to enjoy the service • Murerezi river has a big donga which makes it difficult for ambulance service to General/provincial hospital (105km). Worse, the Runde and Save bridges are uncross-able during floods. Via Neshuro 165km; via Zvishavane 182km. • Staff residences at St Ambrose CPS is shared with Home Craft and very insufficient. The junior grades find it difficult to use the toilets because of too big holes for their age. Next year introducing grade 5. Need for computer lab to house +/- 40 computers. Currently have 9 PCs and a laptop donated from FFM. • Community leaders promised to actively mobilise communities to own FFM as their own project. They remember drought relief episodes facilitated by FFM. They however, witness thousands of school fees defaulters due to reduced FFM support in that side. VHWs and other volunteers need support for their vital contributions. • Matibi bridge has been a bone of contention between politicians and the electorate. • Muchingwizi Dam scooping is a necessary and urgent move because it receives rainwater once a year which is needed for garden, hospital sewage, livestock, building, general laundry etc. • Musaverima Dam water can as well be tapped to serve the hospital since it is perennial located 3km south of the hospital. • Need for a nursing school in the district to harness local human resources since even the neighbouring districts Chivi and Chiredzi also have none, even Zvishavane district in the next province Midlands. Thus the nursing schools are concentrated only in the eastern half of the province.

12. Vision contd. • Congestion in postnatal ward e.g. not meeting the national standard of 3 days before discharge after delivery, 4 more beds needed • No gadgets to facilitate diversion therapy in the hospital wards e.g. television • Staff ward is needed for nursing sick staff as a way of maintaining a felt-fair environment to retain staff • Currently we have 18 houses (15 for other staff, 3 docs) for 70 staffs thus 1 house shelters an average of 10 people. We need 5 more houses. • Home Craft department needs a craft workshop as well as a storehouse and a classroom. Currently we use 1 room for combined cooking, sewing and storage etc. We can also expand Home Craft to become a poly-disciplinary vocational training centre to incorporate boys as well because the idea is to help those that might have been unfortunate in the conventional schools. • Need to motivate staff through staff competitions e.g. FFM Worker of the Year Award. Targeted support is needed in issues such as nutrition, maybe through shows or field days. • Some talents are fading away without being recognised e.g. poets and dramatists • Other institutions have own transport. We need maybe a staff bus to ferry staff about once to and from town etc. • We have 7 primary and 2 secondary schools in ward 3. Primary school has expanded recently to include Early Childhood Development (ECD) ranging from 3-year olds implying need for supplementary feeding. • Need for compartmentalised hospital wards for privacy of patient consultation • Retention of doctors needs active strategies e.g. vehicles as benefits • Need for scanning machine and currently there is only 1 old machine

13. MISSION • Safeguarding steady access to quality services for the general wellbeing of Matibi community

14. VALUES • Commitment to duty • Diligence • Transparency • Honesty • Teamwork

15. CRITICAL OBSTACLES • Economic instability • Under-communication • Poor coordination • Discontinuity • Political hijacking • Incompatible cultural expectations

16. STRATEGIC, LONG-TERM GOALS/DIRECTIONS • To facilitate comprehensive healthcare for Matibi community • To meaningfully involve individuals and groups of Matibi community in home-grown livelihood activities • To build the capacity of Matibi community to access and enjoy competitive educational services at all levels possible

17. INSTANT GOALS/OBJECTIVES • 1.1. To contribute to the prevention of, and improving awareness on preventable diseases in Matibi community • 1.2 To assist Matibi Mission Hospital in meeting the treatment needs of Matibi community • 1.3 To facilitate comprehensive care and sustainable support for the chronically ill and/or disabled in Matibi community

18. Objectives contd. • 2.1 To rehabilitate existing water sources and expand their capacities to cater for community gardens and livestock • 2.2 To empower out-of-school youths in Matibi community with survival vocational skills

19. Objectives contd. • 3.1 To assist St Ambrose Matibi Primary School in meeting its infrastructural and technical needs to offer valuable ECD and primary Education • 3.2 To contribute to improving accessibility of secondary education in ward 3 of Mwenezi district • 3.3 To facilitate enhanced local-based staff development and retention at Matibi Mission

20. INDICATORS OF SUCCESS/ BENCHMARKS

21. Indicators contd.

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23. INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT

24. Infrastructure contd.

25. Infrastructure contd.

26. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

27. Implementation contd.

28. Implementation contd.

29. DISSEMINATION PLAN