Ndlovu Nutritional Unit (NNU) Program is integrated in the Ndlovu CHAMP Children's Program.

Ndlovu Care Group reaches its goals by engaging with Home Based Care givers linking the community to relevant Government Departments in order to provide better services for these targets at community levels.

The CHAMP team regularly conducts awareness campaigns during which HIV counselling and testing (HCT) is encouraged. This has resulted in an increased number of caregivers reporting for HCT, an increase in knowledge around health care issues, especially HIV, and a marked improvement on statistics around unplanned teen-age pregnancies.

Community health workers, trained to perform according to Ndlovu Care Group standards, who work at the four Ndlovu Nutritional Units, identify and enrol malnourished children with their caregivers into a training and feeding program.   With the unique inter referral program that the Ndlovu Care Group offers, the children’s health status is determined at the Ndlovu 12-Hour Community Health Clinic, where underlying disease is treated.  The children are brought back to health with an adequate diet at the Nutritional Unit, where weight, medical status and progress is monitored.  The inter-referral system of the Ndlovu Care Group ensures holistic care.  The Ndlovu Nutritional Units project bridges the gap between the doctors' recommendations and the care-givers' limitations regarding health care knowledge.  Care-givers are enrolled in a series of lectures, educating them on a life-skills curriculum including all issues relevant to childcare and early childhood development.  These lectures include information about nutrition, personal hygiene, HIV / AIDS, and physical and mental child care and milestones. The Nutritional Units maintain their own vegetable gardens, which provide a constant source of fresh vegetables to the pre-schools and nutritional units.  The gardens are also used to educate care givers and encourage them to grow their own gardens at home.  Care-givers are issued with seedlings for this purpose. 

Malnourished children are admitted to the Ndlovu Nutritional Units for an average of three months, depending on the health status of the child.  Once a child is deemed healthy and fit enough to be discharged, the child's progress is monitored for two months with weekly visits from the Community Health Services and after that by Home Based Care-givers to ensure that children do not regress.

The children graduate from the nutritional units into the preschools where their early childhood development is monitored and where they receive balanced meals.