INTRODUCTION
KT Emergency Services and Social Support is a leading social care and community NPC Company. We are currently supporting the elderly in Region D. The Organization is currently rendering services to the senior citizens in the region D, in line with city’s social support package. The programme components include Social support, Nutrition, Economic development, Health Lifestyle, Empowerment and Excursion.
OUR VISION
Providing communities with social relieve needs and play a meaningful role in the socio-economic development the vulnerable groups.
MISSION
Our mission is to be committed towards communities in a bigger picture aiming at making a difference in livelihood through awareness of the living conditions such as:
- Improving their socio-economic standards
- Access to affordable healthy cost efficient nutrition
- Chronic management tools through weekly vital records
- Physical training through different activities
GOALS
Our goal as KT Emergency Services and Social Support are:
- Direct socio-economic transformation
- Improving the living standard of communities
- Health improvement
- Create deliberate programmes for community longevity
OBJECTIVES
KT Emergency Services and Social Support conducts its social and economic activities within the destitute societies to achieve the following objectives:
- To improve the socio-economic condition of the society especially the elderly by improving their living situation.
- Building environment that will keep them healthy
- Strengthening partnerships that will improve socio-economic conditions in communities especially the elderly people.
VALUES
- Trust
- Integrity
- Honesty
- Transparency
- Loyalty
Programmes
- Vital Signs chronic illness program
Fitness
The elderly will be provided with a weekly chronic assessment check-ups which includes the following illnesses: Hypertension, Diabetes, Asthma, Epileptic, Stoke, Cancer, Arthritis, Alzheimer, etc.
Access to Health/Care Giving Centre
Qualified Nurses, Physiotherapists and social workers especially those who are in service training will be sourced from tertiary institutions to assist the elderly who will require their services. They will conduct site visit once a week.
Counselling
We will conduct different types of counselling ranging from mental health to substance abuse through the FAMSA workshops. Youth and former workers will be trained to become counselors to address mental health and substance abuse. Once these counsellors have graduated KT Emergency services and Social support will absorb them and others will be placed to different NGO, NPO and CBO to trade their skills for compensation
Partnership Arrangements
KT Emergency services and Social support is in partnership with Gauteng Education Health and Safety Unit as a service provider where we have 5 Pilot schools 4 being high schools and 1 Primary, Training First aid and basic Fire Level 1 where each schools has the opportunity of 25 beneficiaries who are trained and can operate as first responders in emergency incidents. Skills Training The elderly will be provided with technical and soft skills to keep them active. The training programmes will be highly basic considering their different ages. There will be also activities that they will involve touring places of interest, becoming choir members, social outing (Zoo, Museum, Picnics).
Target Group
KT Emergency services and Social support through its socio-economic programme is targeting destitute societies especially elderly that are pensioners those who are residing from their homes and those who are living in old aged homes as well as youth with manageable disability and also take interest to youth that does not have skills from impoverished families and provide with skills to transform the living conditions of their families.
On any day, we support
- An older person with dementia to live independently in their own home.
- A dad of young children to reduce his risk of eviction by understanding these responsibilities as a tenant.
- A young family with respite care
- Someone leaving a long term hospital stay.
- Maximizing independence in the home, including with medication, personal care, health wellbeing and adapted environments.
- Building and maintaining relationships with friends and family of elderly.
- Staying involved in social activities and choosing to try new things.
We aim to achieve...
Being tenacious and not giving up on people
Our specially trained team has considerable experience and skills in developing strong support relationships and positively persisting with people to engage in support and community activities
Our Elderly Care
KT Emergency services and Social support is designed to provide care and companionship for local older adults who need assistance or supervision during the day. This offers relief to family members whose have other responsibilities or who simply need downtime. Family members can b sure their relative is well cared for, safe, and socially stimulated. The goal of our organization is providing social activities, meals, recreation and health related services. We welcome seniors functioning at all levels even high functioning, independent seniors who wish to join for the social aspects
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
GOGO on tour program is a program solely focusing on the elderly citizens, were we conduct awareness such as elderly abuse, healthy lifestyle and the importance of taking their chronic medication, and as a result we would like to change the system by encouraging elderly citizens not to default on their medication by offering our service to collect their medication on prescribed dates as well as conducting vital signs and home based care for those who are bed ridden.
