Home-based Care
Home-based Care projects initiated by Anglicans
in the Diocese, comprising Anglicans and members
of other church denominations and faiths and
involved in the care of members of the community
are: Tshepo-Hope Care and Counselling Centre,
Tsakane: Zakheni Home-based Care, Tembisa West:
Udumolwethu Home-based Care, Wattville.
A training course in home-based care was conducted
for caregivers living in the community of Tsakane
(1999). Tshepo-Hope and Zakheni are partly funded
by the Department of Health Gauteng. Some members
of the Anglican Women's Fellowship were trained
in home-based care in 2001 as well as a group
of caregivers from the Uniting Reform Church
- also in 2001. Volunteers from parishes in
the Katlehong and Vosloorus Archdeaconries were
trained in Katlehong in 2002 by Florence Ngobese,
Diocesan AIDS Co-ordinator. Volunteers are discouraged
from forming their own home-based care projects
and competing with existing projects which may
or may not be funded by government in the area.
They are encouraged to visit the projects and
offer their support. Some volunteers are absorbed
into existing projects.
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