Malumulele Shelter Renovations, Limpopo
Malamulele Yinhla Project gave this report: At Shigalo we renovated 3 houses where we did roofing, plastering, flooring. At Mphakati we renovated 3 houses (roofing plastering, flooring). We helped 12 adults and 17 children in these communities. The families are…
Happy Family in the Diocese of Dundee
Maria Ratschitz Mission serves a remote area of rural Zululand, in the Diocese of Dundee. SACBC AIDS Office funds the orphan housing program there, building 24 square meter, two-roomed houses for destitute orphans. Progress has not been easy – there…
Education for Life Workshops for Child Carer Workers
A number of Education for Life Workshops were conducted for child care workers engaged at different AIDS projects to help them look at their own lives and engage more effectively with children in their care. The SACBC youth team facilitated…
Orphaned youth build houses in Swaziland
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DEPENDENCY: SWAZILAND SHOWS THE WAY Johan Viljoen In existence since January 2000, the SACBC AIDS Office has frequently had to change its focus and priorities, to adapt to the latest realities of the AIDS pandemic in…
Huge Benefits for Children and Careworkers in PEPFAR Funded Programme
An end of programme assessment was conducted in eight of the SACBC AIDS Office orphan and vulnerable children’s projects supported by PEPFAR. We acknowledge and applaud the wonderful work happening where it is most needed.
Cycling for Pomeroy
At the beginning of October 2014, Johan Viljoen (Program Manager of the SACBC AIDS Office) set out with three Dutch businessmen on mountain bikes. The final destination was Nairobi. The purpose of the expedition was to raise funds for the…
INDEPENDENT EVALUATION HIGHLIGHTS SUCCESS OF SACBC TB PROGRAM
South Africa has one of the most serious TB epidemics in the world. It is the leading cause of death with over 60 000 deaths notified in 2010. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that in 2011 there were more…
Legacy helps people in the greater Johannesburg area.
Johan Viljoen The SACBC AIDS Office began operating in 2000, with a mandate from the Bishops to coordinate the response to AIDS of the various Catholic Church structures in South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana. Since then it has developed such…
SECAM’s training for AIDS pastoral care
Delegates to a SECAM training for Anglophone Africa met in early November at Bredell, near Johannesburg. The Second African Synod called for a training manual for Africa on pastoral care for people living with and affected by AIDS, and SECAM…
Reaching out to children in the North West
Priscilla Rakhetsi of the SACBC AIDS Office visited Tsibogang, Mahikeng and its Zeerust subsite, and filed this report. Khunotshwane sub site has 158 children registered in the programme and eight child care workers providing services to the children. The following…