Blessed Gérard's
Friendship Club

Mandeni · kwaZulu/Natal · Republic of South Africa

1993-2013

The objective of Blessed Gérard's Friendship Club is the care and counselling of indigent poor and needy persons where more than 90 per cent of those persons to whom the care or counselling are provided are over the age of 60.

We invite all interested senior citizens twice a month to join us for a cup of tea and a chat and a different activity each time, for example a doctor gave a talk on geriatric ailments, a nurse taught calinetics, they played games or did handicrafts. This serves to get the elderly out of their isolation and to find new friends.

Ladies from the Friendship Club at their meeting on 12 February 2009

Reports on Blessed Gérard's Friendship Club (formerly Twilight Club) in:

• A piece of Africa no tourist ever sees (by Diane von Wrede)
• A piece of South Africa no tourist ever sees (text of a video film)
• Our newsletters
  • No. 1 (May 1993)
  • No. 4 (December 1994)
  • No. 7 (Christmas 1995)
  • No. 10 (September 1996)
  • No. 11 (Christmas 1996) poem by Margaret Paxton · report
  • No. 14 (Easter 1998)

We are a member of the

South African Older Persons' Forum

A project of

Blessed Gérard's Care Centre
established by the
Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

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