The SACBC AIDS Office managed to secure funding to support the orphan and vulnerable children programme in the Diocese of Kroonstad. A new hall where the children can gather was constructed in Hennenman. A shortfall in the building costs resulting…
The entire trip from South Africa On Saturday we gather at the airport for check-in. Most of the group did not know each other, so here are introduced. It is a fun and diverse group, with more women than men….
News from the Tiyimiseleni Orphanage project [May 2014] Winter has arrived and the early mornings and afternoons are already getting chilly. It is so wonderful to see how everyone at the Tiyimiseleni Centre is enjoying the new building. The ladies…
Swaziland Visit Highlights Dire Rural Poverty Johan Viljoen, 16 May 2014 The SACBC’s “Early Detection of TB” program has been implemented in two sites in Swaziland (Good Shepherd Siteki and Regina Mundi Piggs Peak) since August 2013. In these few…
Maria Ratschitz Mission, PO Box 194, Wasbank, 2920 We are writing to thank you for amazing support you have given us in this past two years since the beginning of the Orphans and Vulnerable Children housing project under…
15 members of staff at Tiyimiseleni, Diocese of Witbank, showing off their brand-new Tee Shirts! The care workers are part of the orphan and vulnerable children programme funded by the Global Fund.
HOUSES FOR ORPHANS: POMEROY RISES TO THE OCCASION Johan Viljoen SACBC AIDS Office has been in partnership with the Dutch NGO Homeplan since 2010, building two-room brick houses (with corrugated iron roofs, 2500 litre rain water tanks and pit latrines)…
The OVC project Noyi Bazi in Pomeroy, Diocese of Dundee, provides an update on some of its activities in February 2014. In the Gabela area, about 35 children were present for a workshop on teenage pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS. The children…
March was a month of thinking: how do we get the Savanna Trust up and running as quickly as possible? How we do get the gas to work properly? How can we get this huge table top made for the…
The SACBC AIDS Office organised training for childcare workers working in orphan and vulnerable children’s projects, Ahanang (Sebokeng), Ekuthuleni (Leandra), Tiyimiseleni (Hazyview) and Vezokuhle (Hazyview), in March 2014. Successful training leads to a recognised qualification. The training was conducted at…