A House, A Home, A Future.
The SACBC AIDS Office “Houses for Orphans” program has, to date, built nearly 200 houses for destitute AIDS orphans, either in orphan headed households, or living with elderly grandparents. A further 80 houses are currently under construction, or planned for…
Mud House Replaced for Sealoma Family in Thaba Nchu, Bloemfontein
February 2013 New house built by Batho Ba Lerato Thaba Nchu (Ratlou Location), Archdiocese of Bloemfontein In the Sealoma household, there are nine people living under the same roof. The head of the household is a granny of 67 years…
Thafeni Family moves into a new house in Thaba Nchu
February 2013 Thaba Nchu (Motlatla Trust) Batho Ba Lerato, Bloemfontein The Thafeni Family lives in one roomed shack that is not in good condition. Their house is in Motlatla Trust. This family is headed by a child of 20 years…
“AIDSRelief” – a job well done, and with thanks to PEPFAR
Sr Alison Munro of the SACBC AIDS Office and Dr Douglas Ross of St Mary’s Hospital, Mariannhill, participated in a seminar in Lusaka, Zambia, with representatives from Church treatment programmes in Africa, all formerly part of the Catholic Relief Services…
New treatment priorities, technical support rather than direct service delivery
Catholic Relief Services hosted a meeting in Lusaka , Zambia, of representatives of the AIDSRelief treatment programme that was funded by a PEPFAR grant to Catholic Relief Services from 2004. With funding cuts, and with new priorities around the provision…
New School Uniforms, Phalaborwa and Ofcalaco Parishes, Tzaneen Diocese.
News from Phalaborwa Parish: 71 households/families were helped, and 132 children – 75 boys and 57 girls – received school uniforms. Other families were helped in Ofcalaco parish. We identified the children by visiting the schools to see the condition…
Bakhita, Tzaneen Diocese, gets a face-lift
The Bakhita Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s project next o St Brendan’s School in the Diocese of Tzaneen was able to do some needed repairs at the centre accommodating the children.
SOURCING FUNDING, AND FUNDING SOURCES
Sr Alison Munro presented input on sourcing funding, and funding sources, at the recent CATHCA regional conference held at Willow Park Conference centre near Johannesburg this past week. The major donor funding that was available between roughly 2000 and 2010…
Orphanaid, Caritas, Siphafaneni House, Swaziland
Siphofaneni, Our Lady of Sorrows, Manzini Diocese The xx family has 3 members, [a father and 3 children, 1 girl, 2 boys]. The father is HIV positive and needs to visit the local clinic for his medication almost every two…