15 years Brotherhood of Blessed Gerard

The Brotherhood of Blessed Gerard was founded by Father Gerard T Lagleder O.S.B., Dr Paul Z T Thabethe, Sister Nokuthula M Thabethe, Mr Geoffrey Kalkwarf and Mrs Clare A Kalkwarf on 28 October 1992.

Many great things could happen through God's grace in these 15 years of our history.

Today we run

Blessed Gérard's Hospice and HAART Programme:
We run a Hospice to provide home based care, day care and inpatient care for needy sick people, suffering from HIV/AIDS, and train the public in home based care. We provide Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) for poor AIDS patients free of charge.
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home:
We look after and give a home to sick, neglected, abused, malnourished, abandoned and orphaned children.
Blessed Gérard's Friendship Club:
We organise meetings to enable the elderly to get out of their isolation and socialise with others.
Blessed Gérard's HIV/AIDS-Education Programme:
We teach the public how to avoid HIV infection and how to live positively with AIDS.

Other Projects of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard:

Blessed Gérard's Pre-Primary School & Crèche:
We run a Pre-Primary-School & Crèche for underprivileged children.
Blessed Gérard's Malnutrition Clinic:
We run a clinic, where we examine, treat and feed malnourished infants and teach their parent/carer in proper baby care.
Blessed Gérard's First Aid and Emergency Service:
We offer First Aid and assist people in emergencies.
Blessed Gérard's Bursary Fund:
We give bursaries to poor pupils and students of our local community.
Blessed Gérard's Poor-Sick-Fund:
We help sick people from our local community, if they cannot afford urgently needed medical treatment.
Blessed Gérard's Relief Fund (hunger relief / clothing / rebuilding):
We help people in our local community in genuine cases of immediate need.
Blessed Gérard's Disaster Control & Civil Protection:
We are ready to give medical assistance and care as a relief organisation in case of a disaster.

HIV-infected patients currently in care	421
HIV-infected patients seen in our HAART Clinic per month	202
AIDS-patients specially counselled per month	60
AIDS-patients currently on antiretroviral treatment (HAART)	128
new patients in home care	89
home care visits made	1213
new inpatients in the hospice	386
outpatient visits	1995
children in the children's home	39
children in our pre-primary school & creche	42
children and youth were granted bursaries	60

Patients
- 2183 inpatients
- 1670 home patients
- 1492 patients transported
- 1064 patients counselled
- 608 patients transferred
- 600 day- and outpatients
- 515 HAART patients
- 411 paediatric patients
- 297 patients were administred First Aid
- 243 emergency patients
- 255 social cases
Training
- 497 home carers and caregivers
- 204 First Aiders
- 16 therapeutic counsellors for Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART)
- 275 seamstresses (basic training)
- 188 seamstresses (intermediate training)
- 3 seamstresses (advanced training)
Transport: We have driven more than 500.000 km with our vehicles to render our services.
Cost: We have raised and spent close to 35 Million Rand to look after those entrusted into our care. (as on 8th December 2007)

We thank all our supporters and members wholeheartedly for making all this possible.

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