Charity / Christian Living / Church
by Admin · Published September 18, 2019 · Last modified September 16, 2019
By Sheila Pires – In a relatively short time, the social development arm of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Caritas SA, has achieved in the areas of agriculture, palliative care for HIV/Aids and...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published August 17, 2019 · Last modified August 15, 2019
Moira Gillmore, Durban – Jean Vanier, the founder of the L’Arche communities and Faith and Light, who died on May 7, and I became friends after he had visited South Africa in the...
My personal association with Catholic Welfare & Development (CWD)—the welfare agency of the archdiocese of Cape Town which had to close its doors in November—makes me think of the 1980s. It calls to...
The official reopening of Nazareth House in Durban takes place on Saturday, June 8, and members of the public have been invited to tour the facility and meet the management team. This time last...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published May 1, 2019 · Last modified April 29, 2019
The Catholic Health Care Association (CATHCA) held its Gauteng provincial conference, with staff and members coming together to meet other care workers and share their experiences and challenges. CATHCA, a non-profit organisation, is the...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published May 1, 2019 · Last modified April 29, 2019
The closure of Catholic Welfare Development may have come as a surprise to many, but that wasn’t the case for the financial administrator of Cape Town archdiocese, who says the CWD which closed in...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse / News
by Erin Carelse · Published April 30, 2019 · Last modified April 29, 2019
Catholic parishes around the country are being invited to participate in a major national programme to help the poor in the colder months. Every year for 17 years the Dutch Reformed Church has organised...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published April 25, 2019 · Last modified April 24, 2019
The theme of this year’s Little Eden Society fête is “Royal Affair”, and visitors are challenged to dress up for the theme, with the chance of winning prizes. The fête will be held on...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published April 18, 2019 · Last modified April 17, 2019
A centre run by the Good Shepherd Sisters in Madidi, North West Province, was declared the best-practice model of integration of services by the provincial department of social development’s HIV/Aids directorate. Since its inception...
Charity / Church / Raymond Perrier
by Raymond Perrier · Published April 3, 2019 · Last modified April 2, 2019
The Lord reminds us it is better to give than to receive. During Lent, I am sure that most readers are focused on the value of giving. But as someone who runs an organisation that...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published March 28, 2019 · Last modified March 27, 2019
A Catholic childcare centre in Mthatha has won a prestigious service excellence award. The Catholic Development Centre (CDC) won the best-performing community-based childcare services category at the second Charlotte Maxeke Service Excellence Awards in...
The last project which Catholic Welfare & Development (CWD), the former social development agency of the archdiocese of Cape Town, worked on was its annual “Buckets of Love” campaign. These buckets contained food and...
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