Excitement in South Africa

I’d like to share greetings from our South African colleagues! They say thank you to Suncoast Hospice for hosting Jacqui Kaye and Ritta Khunga from the Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand this past April. Jacqui shares that all Hospice Wits sites have a bulletin board with pictures from Jacqui and Ritta’s trip here and examples of our partnership. This way all of their staff can learn more about us and our wonderful partnership.

Our sister hospice also want to share their country’s excitement about hosting the World Cup Soccer. Those of us who have traveled to our sister hospice in 2007 and 2009 saw the soccer stadiums being built. Hospice Wits has used some team supports to support the World Cup excitement. Attached are two pictures- one of a street scene of celebrants and the other some of Hospice Wits staff dressed in their team’s (Bafana Bafana) colors.

Many foreign dignitaries have visited Johannesburg and other South African cities because of the soccer tournament. I’m very proud to share that Dr. Jill Biden, wife of our vice president, visited Hospice Wit’s Mapetla daycare center. Mapetla provides care to children who are HIV positive, have a parent HIV positive, or are orphaned because of HIV. You can imagine the amount of security work that went into arranging this visit. I hope to have some pictures soon to share with you about that visit.

As Jacqui said in her email, “Our country is looking so fantastic and creative and colourful at the moment – the excitement is palpable…..!!”

Stacy Orloff

They’re Here!

Our colleagues from the Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa have arrived for a two-week visit in the United States

Jacqui Kaye, (HR Manager) and Ntombi Ritta Khunga (patient care manager) were greeted at our Roosevelt location on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, by Suncoast Hospice staff who made the trip in 2007 or 2009, and Suncoast Hospice Foundation staff who helped in making the trips possible.

Photos: Christine Petitti gives Ritta a welcome gift while Dr. Amy Post-Grady, the keeper of maps on our 2009 trip to Soweto and Johannesburg helps Jacqui get her bearings with map of Florida.

Jabula 2010

JABULA! Gospel Fest

Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church
955 20th Street S
St. Petersburg, FL33712-2350

Friday, April 30, 2010
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Join Suncoast Hospice in celebrating the 8th Annual JABULA! Gospel Fest. There will be gospel music and fellowship, all to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and acknowledge the efforts of our sister hospice, in Soweto, South Africa. Suncoast Hospice calls this special evening JABULA! which is a Swahili word for Rejoice. All proceeds from the free-will offering will help support the Hospice of Witwatersrand in Soweto, South Africa, where HIV/AIDS is a major health issue.

For information call Ann Sherman-White at (727) 324-6795

Jabula!

What an Event!

A good time was had by young and old alike at the 7th annual Jabula! gospel fest. We estimate over 350 people attended (including all the choir members). This number is even all the more remarkable as it was pouring before the event started. The choirs were great, the MC was wonderful, and drum roll… we raised just over $2300!!!!

Thank you to everyone who came out to this wonderful evening filled with song and praise. And a special thanks to Mount Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church for hosting Jabula! and all of the talented individuals and choirs who made this an event that no one who was there will soon forget:

Bayboro Community House

Michael A. Walker

St. Joseph's Catholic Church

Le' Zaire Reese

Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

Mount Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church

This was, by far, the largest and most profitable Jabula! ever.

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Care 4 Soweto is a partnership of Suncoast Hospice with the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa supporting the important work of the Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand and Soweto Hospice.

Our purpose is simple – To provide care, aid and support to the Soweto community - ravaged by endemic disease. The people of Soweto and surrounding Jo-burg, are making valiant strides in caring for those patients and their families who are battling terminal illness, and also helping with some of the most basic of needs: food, housing, and care for the children.

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