Blessed Gérard's
Care Centre

Our projects:
What we do ...

Blessed Gérard's Care Centre provides a comprehensive and holistic system of care by running:

Blessed Gérard's Hospice and HAART Programme:
We render a health care service to poor and needy persons by providing
- hospice palliative care and counselling of terminally ill persons and the counselling of their families in this regard,
- hospice palliative care, counselling and Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) of persons afflicted with HIV/AIDS, including the care or counselling of their families and dependants in this regard
- primary health care education
through training, home care, day care, outpatient and inpatient care.
Blessed Gérard's Children's Home:
We look after counsel and give a home to sick, neglected, abused, malnourished, abandoned, homeless 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 distribute information to the public relating to HIV and AIDS, namely how to avoid HIV infection and how to live positively with AIDS. This includes information about antiretroviral treatment.
Blessed Gérard's Pre-Primary School & Crèche:
We provide "educare" and an early childhood development service for underprivileged pre-school children.
Blessed Gérard's First Aid and Emergency Service:
We provide rescue and care of persons in distress by offering First Aid and assisting people in emergencies.
Blessed Gérard's Malnutrition Clinic:
We provide a health care service to poor and needy persons by running a clinic, where we examine, treat and feed malnourished infants and teach their parent/carer in proper baby care and nutrition.
Blessed Gérard's Poor-Sick-Fund:
We provide poverty relief by helping sick people from our local community, if they cannot afford urgently needed medical treatment.
Blessed Gérard's Bursary Fund:
We provide poverty relief by giving bursaries to poor pupils and students of our local community.
Blessed Gérard's Relief Fund:
We provide poverty relief by helping people in our local community in genuine cases of immediate need (like hunger, lack of clothing, .destruction of their home).
Blessed Gérard's Disaster Control & Civil Protection:
We provide disaster relief being ready to give medical assistance and care as a relief organisation in case of a disaster.