Sr Alison Munro, OP, November 2016 Over the past six years the AIDS Office of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC AIDS Office) has received funding from individuals as well as from a couple of NGOs to support the…
Anna Kaura (SACBC) Dr Claire Botha (Aurum, PEPFAR Partner) attended the Families Matter! Graduations at Patrice Motsepe HBC Project. Once again we heard wonderful testimonies about how FMP has broken communication barriers between adults and children in homes, resulting in…
Siyabathanda Community Based Organization in the ILembe District Maphumulo Municipality was able to do some shelter renovations benefitting 136 children and their families with funding received through the SACBC AIDS Office. It…
Anna Kaura represented the SACBC AIDS Office at the Familes Matter graduations at Emmaus Community Centre in September 2016, and submitted this report There were six groups of 20 each graduating, and each group rendered an item to entertain the…
Families Matter! is a training programme targeting guardians of children entering puberty and helping them to be able to talk about sexuality issues with the children. It has been one of the main focus areas of the OVC project of…
Sr Alison Munro, OP Hundreds of journalists present at the 21st International AIDS Conference ensured that the world was kept informed of the developments in scientific research into new drugs and vaccine trials, and of gains made in programmes reducing…
Catholic AIDS Conference, July 2016 Sr Alison Munro The Catholic Pre Conference ahead of the International AIDS Conference in Durban in July heard a message from Pope Francis, read by the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Peter Wells, encouraging “the Bishops of…
