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On 3 September 2005, an eight-month-old baby was found near the public water tap in the local slum. Young girls from the community who had come to fetch water find him. They picked him up and…

Dr Roux Martinez, then a resident in trauma and transplant surgery in Cape Town/South Africa, answered the question why she became an active member of the Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard:
"Indeed, there…

The Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard responded to the concentrated and enormous distress of the South African AIDS pandemic in many ways.

In 1997, the township of Sundumbili in Mandeni was described in the South African magazine Drum as the "AIDS capital of KwaZulu/Natal". A representative test among factory workers in the iSithebe…

My Visit to Blessed Gérard's Nursing, Social and Hospice Centre

Report of the Vice President of the British Association of the Order of Malta Lady Patricia Talbot of Malahide

The beauty of the country…

When we recently visited relatives in kwaZulu Natal, South Africa, we were able to accept the kind invitation of Clare Kalkwarf to visit the Hospice of Blessed Gerhard in Mandeni, which she runs…

The story of Thandi and her son Bhekithemba should give you an impression of the terrible situation of many people in our area and show you how we help people in a meaningful and effective way:

Thandi…

Our President, Fr Gerhard, is a Missionary Benedictine from the Archabbey of St Ottilien in Germany and was sent out as a missionary to Inkamana Abbey in South Africa on 6 January 1987. When two of…

Blessed Gérard's kindergarten is now ten years old-. 

All these years it has run continuously and is only closed during the annual Christmas holidays. Our pre-school then releases the children to the…

Qalile Uhlelo*, a 39-year-old woman, came to Blessed Gérard's Hospice in August 2004 asking for help. She was very ill and had all kinds of opportunistic infections. She openly admitted that she was…