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       Welcome to the CATHCA Website!

Who we are:

CATHCA is the Catholic Health Care Association of Southern Africa. Some of us are doctors, some nurses, some community health workers, or other health professionals, and many of us are lay people doing voluntary work as home based caregivers, administrators, bookkeepers, or looking after orphans or the elderly in homes and care centres across the country. 

Where we are:

We work around the country in all nine Provinces of South Africa, and in Botswana and Swaziland, in 38 clinics, two hospitals, many old age homes, hospices, orphanages and many Diocesan and parish projects combating HIV/AIDS.  See the button marked "Members" to the left.  

News from the National Office - October 2009

August and September were full of governance issues for CATHCA staff, with our 6-monthly audit followed by a meeting of the Finance Committee and then the CATHCA EXCO . Teresa and Sinikiwe attended certification ceremonies for our newly-certified home-based caregivers at Nzhelele in Limpopo and Yvonne spent an interesting morning at the Theology Dept of the University of Pretoria where people from the Zimbabwean diocese of Bulawayo were looking at the future of their hospitals and clinics in the diocese. She also met with Denise Hunt of the AIDS Consortium to discuss support for community-based caregivers in South Africa .

 Staff have been engaged in interviewing applicants for two posts of Monitoring and Evaluation Officers at CATHCA, one for the Global Fund programme and one for CATHCA, and Jane Munyoro and Ian Hove will be taking up their positions at CATHCA very shortly – we extend a big welcome to them and look forward to some great M & E work. Thuli wrote her preliminary Palliative Care Nursing exam in early September (with her final exam due in October). CATHCA staff surprised Loek with a birthday tea party for her 70^th birthday, attended by several tenants of The Haven; the secret was nearly out when Loek arrived at work earlier than expected and had to be hastily taken on a wild goose chase of Melville while the tea party guests gathered!

The CATHCA Eastern/Western Cape regional conference was held at St. Luke’s Centre in Port Elizabeth for 40 delegates over the weekend of 11-13^th September (a link to the excellent presentation made by the Dept. of Health representative is provided further down).

Finally last week CATHCA staff joined overseas volunteers and volunteers from seven CATHCA member organisations (Inkanyezi, Holy Cross Hospice, Elandskop, the dioceses of Kroonstad, Aliwal North and Gaberone in Botswana and Mofumahadi) in assembling 268 sturdy bikes to be donated to the organisations’ home-based caregivers, thanks to the generosity of BMS Secure The Future Foundation, Kona Bikes, UTi and BikeAfrika, before the office closed for a well-earned rest on Friday 25^th September.

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CATHCA Staff June 2009  

Back l to r: Yvonne Morgan (Director), Loek Goemans (Administrator), Hester Barnier (administration assistant), Thuli Mzamane (Development Manager)

Front l to r: Teresa Whitaker (Global Fund Finance Manager), Sinikiwe Sithole (Global Fund Manager), Robin Martin (CATHCA Finance Manager).

Not in picture; Lungi Mbokazi (Capacity-building Officer).

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More information

Click on a button on the left for more information about CATHCA, its history, membership, addresses of clinics and other institutions, structure, parish nursing programme, staff members, work with HIV/AIDS, and medicines.  

Contact details: CATHCA, P O Box 52015, Saxonwold, 2132

St. Vincent School for the Deaf, 158 Oxford Road, Melrose, Johannesburg

Telephone: +27 11 880 4022  Fax: +27 11 880 4084

E-mail : info@cathca.co.za