Orphans and Vulnerable Children - CRIN

Preparing for Home Visits: OVC Access to Education

In this activity, you will:

 Assist participants to put together basic information on children’s access to education

for their home visitor’s handbooks

Facilitator’s notes:

In the previous activities, the participants talked about the barriers that often keep vulnerable

children from attending school and the types of actions the community (the CCC) may take to

minimise these difficulties. In this activity, they will compile this information into their home visitor’s

handbooks. They will also go through an exercise to help formulate steps to take when they come

across cases where the children they visit are not attending school.

For this activity you will need:

 Flipchart and markers

 Extra sheets of blank paper

To facilitate this activity:

1 Explain to the participants that, as home visitors, their role will be to monitor which vulnerable

children they are visiting are not in school; and then to follow the steps identified by the CCC

for reporting this information and working to assist the child to return to school.

2 Hand out sheets of blank paper and ask the participants to label a page:

Steps to take when OVC are not in school. You will help the participants to

decide on what actions to take, based on what has been discussed in

the previous activities. It will help home visitors to know what actions

to take when they find a child not attending school, so it is best if

they are prepared for this. For example, they may find that more girl

children are not attending school because of household chores or

caregiving responsibilities; or that physically disabled children are being

denied schooling and are kept at home.

Emphasise to participants that all children should be given the

opportunity to attend school, and that home visitor’s should be

especially sensitive to this issue when monitoring households.

It is important for a child’s development to take part in schooling;

as well as being a fundamental children’s right.

3 When the participants have completed the page, they should include

it into their home visitor’s handbooks.

Activity 4

40 minutes

(^258) Unit 2, Module 4 Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children