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Who is Joint Aid Management?
Joint Aid Management (JAM) is a South African founded
non-profit, Christian humanitarian relief and development
organisation with 22 years experience in sustainable
development. JAM's programmes focus on nutritional feeding,
school feeding, assistance to orphans and vulnerable
children, the provision of water and sanitation as well as
skills development and community training. JAM believes that
without education there can be no development and effective
education is only attained through adequate nutrition. JAM
currently assists more than 350 000 children through our
nutritional feeding programmes.
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Organisation History
JAM started in 1984 after it's founder, Peter Pretorius, was
stranded in an area called Pambarra in Mozambique. Peter was
at a food distribution centre for 10 days without food or a
change of clothes. There was no food at the centre, only 34
000 starving people. Every day more than 30 people died and
he helped bury them in shallow trench graves. Broken by the
reality of this suffering, Peter was filled with a resolve
to feed and help as many people as possible. Now, more than
two decades later, Joint Aid Management is making a
difference to hundreds of thousands of lives in 5 African
countries: Angola, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and
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Nutritional Feeding
JAM's nutritional feeding programmes are
mainly focused on schools, with the main objective of
assisting malnourished children to attend school and further
their education while receiving good nutritional intake.
These programmes are a valuable incentive to stimulate
school attendance. Nutritional feeding also takes place in
hospitals, clinics and orphanages through health and social
welfare programmes. In this way JAM helps HIV/AIDS patients
to strengthen their immune system, enabling them to cope
better with and fight the effects of HIV/AIDS. JAM
distributes 100-150g food rations to beneficiaries daily.
This food ration is a porridge-type blend made up of corn,
sugar, soya beans and micronutrients. This ration provides
each child with 70% of their recommended daily allowance
(RDA) as determined by UNICEF. This food is manufactured at
JAM's food factories in Beira, Mozambique and in Benguela,
Angola.
Mozambique
More than 200 000 children are fed (through school
based feeding and health and social welfare programmes)
in the Gaza, Inhambane, Manica and Sofala provinces.
Angola
More than 120,000 children are fed (through
school based feeding and health and social welfare
programmes) in the Benguela province.
Sudan
Sudan is the newest recipient of JAM's school
feeding activities and is by far the most difficult. In
many areas schools need to be constructed and teachers
retrained before school-feeding activities can be
initiated. JAM is currently feeding more than 1
600 children in Pibor county. JAM also assists with
water, sanitation and medical assistance. We
plan to increase this programme to 15 000 beneficiaries.
South Africa
JAM currently feeds 10,000 children in the
Orange Farm region in Primary and Intermediate schools.
All these children are fed utilising the JAM
school-feeding model. JAM’s immediate goal is to feed
350 000 children in South Africa. In 2007, a nutrition
education and school gardening project called Healthy
Futures South Africa will provide 10,000 learners with
nutrition, hygiene and agricultural training, helping
them live healthier, more nutritious lives. JAM assists
orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) with a monthly
take-home food pack. These packs help improve nutrition
and household food security, allowing families to use
money normally reserved for food for other necessities.
A school gardening project in the Mt. Frere region of
the Eastern Cape has established 13 school gardens in
the community, which help the schools to teach learners
about gardening, provides food for the school and
generates income by selling produce to the community.
Water Drilling
JAM Drilling has responded to the great need for
clean and safe water in South Africa in the areas of Limpopo,
Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga. Drilling
operations are also underway in Southern Sudan. The main
focus is to supply potable water to desperate communities
close to a local school or community centre, where possible.
JAM has supplied more than 920 boreholes since drilling
operations started in 2001. JAM is starting water provision
operations in Mozambique and Ethiopia within the course of
the year.
Agriculture
JAM provides seeds, tools and agricultural
training for rural communities in the countries where they
operate, enabling families to help themselves.
Development Programmes
Rwanda
Orphanage
The genocide in Rwanda killed more than 800,000
people; 300,000 of these victims were children, 95,000
children were orphaned. In 1994, JAM established an
orphanage in Gitarama, Rwanda. This facility was built
to cater for 600 orphans yet has housed as many as 700
orphans at times. These children receive three
nourishing meals each day as well as loving care given
by staff and teachers employed at the orphanage. JAM
sponsors schooling for each child with a strong focus on
education. Although these children have faced
challenges, they are healthy, happy and are encouraged
to learn, play games, be creative, take part in sports
activities and learn new skills.
Training Centre
At the JAM Training Centre in Rwanda, young men and
women receive practical skills training in art, domestic
science, carpentry, pottery, computer literacy and
agriculture. The Rwandan Department of Education has
approved the courses offered and each graduate receives
a certificate. The training is practical, while
stimulating creativity and teaching discipline for the
student's personal enhancement, as well as providing
them with skills to offer their communities. Schools for
the hearing impaired, mentally and physically challenged
and a nursery school are also included in this JAM
Training Centre.
South Africa
Community and School Upliftment
In the Orange Farm area of South Africa, development
programmes include;
1.
The development of a training centre to train community
HIV /AIDS representatives as well as offering
agriculture, computer sciences and other skills
development courses
2.
The development of community and school gardens
3.
Renovations and development of sports facilities for
schools and the community
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Operating a multimedia centre, including a community
internet cafe
JAM is implementing a school gardening
project for 10 schools in South Africa's Eastern Cape,
providing seeds, tools and a borehole at each school.
Scholars will also receive training in agriculture,
sanitation, nutrition and general health.
Logistics
The Joint Aid Management headquarters are
situated in the Gauteng province of South Africa. JAM has an
extensive logistics network kept in operation by more than
500 full time employees and 2,200 volunteers. JAM runs a
fleet of 170 vehicles consisting of four-wheel drives, 3
Ton, 7 Ton and 30 Ton trucks, trailers and motorbikes. In
addition, JAM also operates 4 aircraft used to transport
supplies and personnel into the various African countries.
JAM has representative offices in Canada,
UK, Germany, Norway, and the USA.
Partnerships
JAM works in co-operation with a wide range of
organisations in the design and implementation of
humanitarian relief and development programmes throughout
Africa. JAM is continually grateful to their donors; without
whom, none of JAM's programmes would be possible.
Partners
Life
Outreach International
World Food
Programme
United
States Department of Agriculture
Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency
Swedish
Mission Council
EuronAid
and the European Commission
The Sunday
Times Newspaper
Caring
people around the world
Government
in all the African countries JAM works in
Churches
worldwide
Corporates
worldwide
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