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Bringing HOPE to the people
Welcome to Temba Community Development Services.
The mission of the Temba Community Development Services is to fight HIV/AIDS and Gender Related Injustices, mitigate the effects through Awareness Raising Workshops & Education, Circles of Support, Provision of Care and Support to Women and Girls; Men and Boys Infected and Affected by the virus and Advocating and Lobbying for policy changes and implementation. To this end, Temba’s overriding guiding principle is gender sensitivity. The organization primarily targets the most rural areas of the East of the Eastern Cape Province, and secondary Gauteng, for purposes of national lobbying and advocacy.
“Temba has a vision of a PEACEFUL community
characterized by strong spirit of ‘Ubuntu’; free from poverty and related social ills”
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THE BIG DAY ARRIVES — FINALLY MOVING TO
THE NEW SHELTER
OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN
SANAC WORLD AIDS DAY EVENTS CALENDAR
The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) is preparing a calendar of events across South Africa for World AIDS Day (WAD).
You can search for events in your region at
www.hiv911.org.za/world-
If your organisation is planning an event on our around World AIDS Day we would like to hear about it. This is your opportunity to share news of your event with the rest of South Africa!
You can add your organisation’s event to the WAD calendar by submitting the following
information to the HIV-
Title of the event:
World AIDS Day event, Temba Men Circles of Support leading
in the Care & Support of the sick
Host Organisation(s):
Temba Community Development Services
Contact Person: Lulu Boxoza (M/s)
Contact Tel Number: +27 82 566 0998
Start Date: 1st December 2009
End Date: 1st December 2009
Start Time: 11h00
End Time: 15h00
Venue (provide full venue address details including town, local municipality, district municipality and province): Temba Shelter; No. 14960 Laura Mpahlwa Street, Maydene Farm, MTHATHA, 5099
Cost / Entrance Fee: None
Who is invited: Community Members, including Partner Organisation, Govt. Depts., especially Dept. of Correctional Services
Further particulars (limited to 50 words)
Temba Shelter admits clients who have chronic and terminal conditions, thirty (30) at a time. Temba Carers conduct Home Visits and are able to refer sick people to the Temba Shelter, Hospital and Clinics. About 100 people who need help are identified monthly, and those who have no one to look after are admitted at the Shelter.
Temba is working with Men who have started a Circle of Support who, together with the Management and the Board, have decided to show that Caring is the responsibility of each one of us, and on the 1st December 2009, will give love, care and support to the Clients of Temba who are both infected and affected. This will be done together with the Department of Correctional Services, and the fifty (50) members of the Temba Garden Pogramme who will display the vegetables they have harvested, and will donate to the Temba Shelter.
To do this call HIV-
or complete the electronic form on: www.hiv911.org.za/wad-
from Tuesday, 3 November 2009.