The Ndlovu Children's Program currently cares for around 3,500 children of which around 200 orphans live in the 60 registered child-headed households. These children lack almost every aspect of a normal life ranging from protection against the elements, food, clothing, and nutrition, to the security of windows and lockable doors. At this level, CHAMP identifies the specific needs of individual households and addresses these. It is important that these children receive these basics to foster early childhood development and ensure school attendance. In child-headed households, the biggest challenge is persistent hunger, followed by a range of other poverty-related concerns, including: the struggle to pay school-fees; lack of school uniforms and other clothing; lack of money for transport and health care; inadequate housing; and insufficient warmth. To normalise the lives of these children, the following problems have to be addressed:

    Access to running water for washing and cooking – children spend hours per day carrying water; this keeps them from relaxing, learning, playing, and developing. Boreholes closer to the identified dwellings will not only help the OVCs but also the other members of the population.

    Food – food security and the added burden of household chores, like cooking, and cleaning takes up valuable time in these households. The NCG Nutritional Units identifies malnourished children and enrol them, with their caretaker, into an educational and feeding program.

   Security - Windows that can close and doors that can lock. These children need to be able to sleep in a safe place to protect them against rape, theft, and to enable them to function at school.

Basic clothing, linen, blankets including school uniforms, casual clothes - Social exclusion is a daily obstacle in the lives of these children, it is essential that they are not stigmatised further.

OVCs are identified and adopted into the CHAMP as individuals.  NCG strives to create a ‘family’ support structure through the identification of informal ‘foster’ mothers that assist with monitoring the children, reporting problems to the CHAMP employees and social inclusion. This is a further effort to ‘normalise’ the daily lives of the children and to ease the burden on the heads of the families (child-carers). To capacitate families and households caring for OVC, it is necessary to develop interventions ensuring that mechanisms are in place to provide psychosocial support to OVC and their families and to provide skills training for child-headed households. Pre-school OVCs need to be enrolled into the Ndlovu Pre-schools that are currently not funded and therefore charges a monthly fee of R80,00 per child to subsidise teacher salaries, food, and other running costs.