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Our most recent Major Accomplishments
A. CLINICAL CARE 1 355 Community members came to COPESSA for help in the 2009 financial year. The major concern is domestic violence and child abuse. Of these, 298 received intense therapy; each person receiving on average six therapy sessions.
B. TRAINING COPESSA with the help of The Foundation for Professional development trained about 102 community members on HIV related issues, in the Eastern Cape village of Cofimvaba. Dr Nobs Mwanda is a native of this small village, which like other similar areas in the Eastern Cape is ravaged by the effects of HIV/AIDS, poverty and unemployment. COPESSA could not have decided on a better area to enlarge her national footprint. (See brick making project under Community Development). We have also trained six volunteer lay counsellors from the community with the assistance of the Infant Trust in the United Kingdom and CATTS. The volunteer lay- counsellors assist with the counselling of victims of abuse at the centre and in the community. They also play an important role in caring for the thirty-four families consisting of vulnerable and orphaned children that COPESSA supports on an ongoing basis with monthly food parcels, and where necessary school uniforms clothing.
C. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT The following are just some of the 2008-9 highlights: FOOD PARCELS & SUPERVISION COPESSA supports 34 vulnerable and orphaned families with monthly food parcels with the assistance of SPEKKO. Our volunteer counsellors visit and supervise these families fortnightly.
YUDHIKA, FROM SPEKKO & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTING FOOD PARCELS	YUDHIKA, FROM SPEKKO & COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTING FOOD PARCELS
HOLIDAY CAMP About 100 orphaned and needy children were taken on two holiday camps. They were also received training in life skills during these outings.
SCHOOL SHOES Global Soles, a social profit organisation based in the United States of America, donated About 200 pairs of school shoes to COPESSA. COPESSA distributed the shoes to needy schoolchildren in the Protea Glen, Zola, Emdeni and the informal settlement of Waterworks.
ESITHEBENI PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS RECEIVED SHOES FROM GLOBAL SOLES	L-R: MR MOTHA (COPESSA BOARD MEMBER), MR ROTIMI AKINNUOYE (PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL SOLES & pupils from FARANANI PRIMARY SCHOOLS, choosing the right-sized shoes
PLAY PARK COPESSA recently transformed an illegal dumpsite into a Play Park in our locale, with the assistance of City Parks and the Mike Horn Foundation. The purpose of the play park is to ensure that children have a safe place where they can play. Plans to build a similar play park in a nearby informal settlement are afoot.
ILLEGAL DUMPSITE in PROTEA GLEN	PLAYPARK TRANSFORMED FROM THE DUMPSITE (Left)
ILLEGAL DUMPSITE IN THE WATERWORKS INFORMAL SETTLEMENT Consequently, a big piece of land has been donated to COPESSA and we would like to develop this into a multi-purpose community development centre.	ILLEGAL DUMPSITE IN THE WATERWORKS INFORMAL SETTLEMENT
BRICK PROJECT We have initiated an income-generating brick making project in Cofimvaba, in the Eastern Cape with the assistance of Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). This is a follow-up to the training of community members on HIV/AIDS issues and an extension of our footprint into other provinces. This project has tarried because of mining permits but plans to start training of the twenty beneficiaries are underway.
BRICK MAKING PROJECT MEMBERS WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS IN EASTERN CAPE	BRICK-MAKING MACHINE FUNDED BY IDC

COPESSA continues to strengthen the families and neighbourhoods through all her works, thus preventing hundreds of children from falling victim to child abuse and neglect.We trust that the wider society will strengthen our arm and make it possible to achieve the above and more.