Philosophy and approach

FrontLine Development Trust works to promote locally inspired models of good practice as sustainable solutions that help communities
which have been impacted by many challenges, with HIV and AIDS being the cross-cutting ones. These locally inspired livelihood models are community projects including nutrition gardens, contract farming, market gardening and community owned drip irrigation, apiculture as
well as other initiatives which are fostered through training, equipping and mentoring. These help re-build the capacities of communities, empowering them to break out of dependency and into dignity and self-sufficiency.
Such projects present a new hope to those often excluded: women, single parents, child-led families, those with disabilities, grandparents
(re-parenting) and orphaned children. Community based projects serve to help communities re-build their lives and livelihoods so they can not only be equipped to meet their basic needs now, but have sustained economic independence.
FrontLine provides technical expertise and support to set up sustainable agricultural and entrepreneurial initiatives so that individuals and communities are trained and equipped to build and expand their enterprises and have a voice of their own. Extended family units, which have been safety nets for most orphaned children, continue to be greatly stretched and there is an ever growing number of orphans and child-headed households throughout the country. We believe that institutional care is unable to provide for the developmental and long-term needs of these children, nor does it equip them to cope in real life situations.