In April 2011, fifteen Child Care Workers from SACBC AIDS Office affiliated OVC projects began an 18 month training under the National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW). Fourteen modules in literacy and numeracy made up the accredited training funded…
Early Childhood Development Training, Kroonstad OVC Project, July and August 2012 The SACBC AIDS Office collaborated with Realeboga Bakubung Organisation of Thaba Nchu in the Free State in the training of 39 care workers of the Diocese of Kroonstad OVC…
Hope, concrete realities the focus at gathering of African theologians – by Joshua J. McElwee NAIROBI, Kenya – Bring up the subject of Africa at dinner conversation and you may feel like you’ve removed the air from the room. By any…
The SACBC AIDS Office joins the Holy Cross sisters in mourning the death of Sr Emmanuel Nyeka who had been matron at Holy Cross Hospice, Suiderberg, Pretoria, and co-ordinator of the ARV programme run under the auspices of the SACBC…
The SACBC AIDS Office joins the Franciscan Nardini in prayerful support after the Maria Ratchitz hospice near Wasbank in the diocese of Dundee was razed by fire after it was struck by lightning. All patients were moved to safety and…
On Tuesday 4 September 2012 Sibonakaliso and Johan Viljoen visited the Diocese of Kroonstad and met with the management team of the Diocesan AIDS Committee. The SACBC AIDS Office was able to announce that Lotto funding has been approved for…
Sr Hermenegild Makoro (the Secretary General of the SACBC ), Bishop Jose Luis Ponce de Leon (SACBC liaison bishop for AIDS) and the heads of SACBC agencies supported by funding from Catholic Relief Services for programmes in HIV and AIDS,…
Batho ba Lerato sent in the following report for July 2012. 468 children were served in the OVC programme. “Clinical nutritional support:- In many of the areas we serve, there have been problems with malnourished children. Workshops were held with…
Tirisanyo Catholic Commission, Diocese of Gaborone, retreat for home based care givers Tirisanyo caregivers participated in a retreat, reflecting on their lives, and noting that only what is done for Christ in compassion and with care will last. The retreat…
The SACBC AIDS Office, the SACBC Catholic Parliamentary Office and the Jesuit Institute were represented among the delegates to a conference in Nairobi, Kenya in late August 2102 examining aspects of Africae Munus the post synodal document presented to the…