Team PATA

PATA means 'to reach out' in kiSwahili and in isiXhosa, and isiZulu it means 'to touch'

By reaching out and touching communities and health professionals and helping to build capacity in Africa, PATA aims to create a ripple effect of treatment action that will give a growing number of children access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy and holistic care.

You can contact the PATA network by emailing melanie@teampata.org or contact Lauren at the One to One Children's Fund on +44 20 8343 4234.

Sponsor PATA

Generous sponsors have enabled PATA to run an annual PATA forum and supply clinics with vehicles, computers and toys. All clinics are still desperately in need of support. We are currently gathering support for the PATA 2008 forum to be held in Rwanda and we are building resources for computers and software, play areas for children, vehicles and setting up income-generating projects. In addition, PATA is planning to sponsor regional coordinators to manage and support our clinic teams and to enable PATA to collect stats and clinic data so that we can measure the impact of PATA initiatives.

Where and how does PATA use its funds?

• $2 covers the cost of transport for a mother and child to attend their local clinic
• $5 purchases beadwork from the Kidzpositive beadwork project and to support the families of children with HIV. Contact www.kidzpositive.org for more information on the beadwork project.
• $10 buys seeds for PATA clinics wishing to start gardening projects
• $50 supplies toys and equipment to clinics that want to become more child-friendly.
• $50 purchases a beaded disclosure game from the Connaught Zimbabwe clinic to assist in child counseling at other PATA clinics. Contact info@teampata.org for more information.
• $100 pays the salary of 1 expert patient for 1 month
• $500 covers the costs of 1 participant's food and accommodation at the annual PATA Forum
• $1 000 covers the cost of airfare for 1 participant to the PATA forum
• $1500 covers the cost of purchasing a lap top computer for a clinic
• $2400 covers the cost of employing expert patients within 1 clinic for a year
• $6 000 covers the cost of a 4 member team's travel and conference costs at the annual PATA forum
• $10 000 covers the costs of a Kick 'n Test Football event at which 500 youth receive free HIV testing
• $ 12 000 pays the salary for a PATA regional coordinator for 1 year

What PATA-affiliated clinics have asked us to help them with:

• Brown Memorial Clinic in Nkhata Bay, Malawi, needs a boat so that they can do community visits and they want to extend their building so that more patients can be seen
• Connaught Clinic in Zimbabwe needs a partner who can source and supply peanut butter for supplementary feeding
• Harare Children's Hospital in Zimbabwe needs a direct telephone line to their clinic
• Livingstone Paediatric Centre of Excellence in Zambia needs funds to establish a Child Sexual Abuse Centre and a vehicle for outreach projects. They also need a PCR machine.
• Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Lesotho needs funds to provide snacks for children visiting their clinic, as well as electronic equipment such as a TV, DVD, Fridge etc for their resource centre and a vehicle for transport
• Mbeya Referral Clinic in Tanzania needs handkerchiefs for coughing patients, a PCR machine and funds to create a separate child-friendly room for child counselling
• Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya would like music and music equipment to play in the corridors of their clinic as well as an outside banda / 'wendy house'
• Kakamega clinic in Kenya needs seeds and funding to start a square metre gardening project
• FACES Nyanza clinic needs funding to start a memory box project. They would also like to start a staff exchange programme so that they can learn from other facilities.
• MRC Uganda needs toys, bright paint and equipment to make their clinic more child-friendly
• Paarl clinic in South Africa needs funding to implement child counselling
• Computers are urgently needed in the following PATA clinics for collection of data and to create computerized dispensing systems:
  • QE II Hospital in Lesotho
  • Harare Children's Hospital, Zimbabwe
  • Livingstone Paediatric Centre of Excellence, Zambia
  • Mbeya, Tanzania