1 January 2009: Father Gérard takes up office as (newly appointed) Diocesan Caritas Director and as (re-appointed) HIV/AIDS Coordinator of the Diocese of Eshowe.
1 January 2009: Father Gérard takes up office as (newly appointed)
Diocesan Caritas Director and as (re-appointed)
HIV/AIDS Coordinator
of the Diocese of Eshowe.
2 January 2009: Mrs. Cynthia McQue starts her full time employment as Personal
Assistant to Father Gérard.
3 January 2009: Dr. Vicco von Arnim, a member of the German Association of the
Order of Malta, pays us a visit with his family.
3 January 2009: Chapter General of the Bendictine Sisters of Twasana at Inkamana
Abbey: Our member Sr. Theodora Ntuli O.S.B. is re-elected as Mother General of
the Community.
13 January 2009: Patients of Blessed Gérard's
Hospice "take possession" of wheelchairs which have been donated to us by
Romex:
15 January 2009: The Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard
is listed at betterplace.org:
http://de.betterplace.org/organisations/bbg.
This will enable us to receive donations online from creditcard users, but we
much rather prefer that donors would transfer donations directly into our own
accounts: See Donations to the Brotherhood of
Blessed Gérard
15 January 2009: Dedicated Members' Meeting of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard.
17 January 2009: A first Support Group - calling themselves "Buhlebempilo Group" - of AIDS Patients who are being treated by Blessed Gérard's Hospice HAART Programme is established and started with 12 people attending.
19 January 2009: Waiting outside the Children's Court: The Magistrate placed
another three of the children of Blessed
Gérard's Children's Home officially into our care: Miriam, Siya and Noxolo.
20 January 2009: Mr. Victor Himunchul, the Project-Coordinator of
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home was
appointed a member of the Management Committee of
Blessed Gérard's Care Centre and the
Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard by the Board of
Directors.
21 January 2009: "First day at school" and "Back to school" for the children of
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home.
22 January 2009: Tony Wende and a TV crew from Public Broadcasting System Network (PBS)
Canada came to interview Fr.Gérard on the challenges of antiretroviral treatment
in Africa. The interview will be broadcast in Canada in the special reports nd
features of "World Focus".
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23 January 2009: The Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard
establishes a group on XING, a social software platform for enabling a
small-world network for professionals.
Our XING group can be accessed at
https://www.xing.com/net/brotherhood/. If you want to join our group
click here!
Joining our XING group does not constitute membership in the
Brotherhood of
Blessed Gérard.
If you want to join us as a member of our organisation click here:
Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard - Application for
Associate Membership
27 January 2009: A very special day for
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home: Since today
all our children are finally officially placed into our care by
the children's court (Magistrate Pat Naicker of Eshowe): Njabulo, Siyabonga,
Jody, Meagen, Hloni and Thuli were placed into our continued care today.
(left picture: Magistrate Naicker with our children and Victor Himunchul, the
project coordinator of Blessed Gérard's Children's Home and Hlengiwe Dube, our
Social Worker.
right picture: Father and "his" children outside the court having lunch.)
28 January 2009: Our Social Worker Hlengiwe Dube finally receives her registration certificate from the South African Council for Social Service Professions making her a registered Social Worker.
31 January 2009: Our member Sr. Benedicta Nzimande O.S.B. of Twasana Convent celebrates her Silver Jubilee of monastic profession.
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