July 2014 Sizumdeni Care Centres caregivers from the Diocese of Mariannhill participated in a retreat facilitated by Sr Maxentia Mkhize at Assisi Convent near Port Shepstone. They reflected on the role and qualities of caregivers in the community, drawing inspiration…
Fr. M. Makama, Mavis Nxumalo and Sipho Nxumalo facilitated a retreat for 20 caregivers, at Regina Mundi Church, Pigg’s Peak, Diocese of Manzini in June. The retreatants were joined by the resident sisters at the mission during the healing service…
In January 2014, one of the carers Francisca Cele worked with Sr Pascalina to venture into beadwork. The two trained and imparted their skills and knowledge to other child care workers of Sicelimpilo Project: how to make Zulu traditional belts,…
The Southern Cross review of the book “Catholic Responses to AIDS in Southern Africa” refers to a wide-spread belief that AIDS is yesterday’s story, and that there are more pressing health issues on the country’s agenda. Pressing though these issues…
The AIDSRelief programme of the Catholic Relief Services consortium begun in 2004 has wound up operations in all of the ten countries in which it provided anti-retroviral treatment with a grant from PEPFAR. The SACBC AIDS Office was originally part…
SITHANDIZINGANE, East Rand, Archdiocese of Johannesburg sent us a report concerning some of the activities they have conducted. We distributed most of the PEP clothes to the children. Some children received school uniforms. Children participated in a sports event hosted…
Omphemetse Mokgatlhe conducted research at KIDS CARE in Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria, towards a post graduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation through the University of Stellenbosch. KIDS CARE is one of the orphan and vulnerable children’s project of the SACBC…
Early in 2014 Priscilla Rakhetsi of the SACBC AIDS Office visited Rorisang Men and Youth Development Project which runs an OVC project for children affected by AIDS. She noted that Rorisang is supported by the Department of Social Development as…
June 2014 The SACBC AIDS Office began its final year of its PEPFAR-funded treatment and orphan and vulnerable children’s programmes on 1 June, having been granted an extension for one year. Two of the Church’s treatment sites, of the original…
Anti-retroviral treatment continues at Tapologo (Diocese of Rustenburg) and Nazareth House, Johannesburg for another year as a result of the no-cost extension granted by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) to the SACBC AIDS Office. The two centres were among…