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10/19/2011 • 8:22 pm Comments Off on Second week in Germany

Second week in Germany

Time is flying and I am already for 10 days in Germany. The BUGA, talks in St. Augustin @ the SVD seminary (Steyler missionaries)  and the KHG Aachen (Catholic Students Society) – visits to the Kath. Auslandssekretariat der DBK (German Bishops Conference), the German AIDS Foundation, meeting with individuals from church and NGO background and some interviews – sometimes it is difficult for me to exactly remember the date or the number of the hotel room while coming for breakfast in the morning…

Tomorrow I will be in Wuerzburg to meet with G. Stich from the Missionsaerztliche Institut – and then seeing other people before rushing on Friday morning at 6 am in the morning to be in time at a school in Ueberlingen to spend a morning with students. Friday afternoon I am expected in Freiburg and Sunday in Munich. Time is really flying but until now the talks have been beneficial for the cause of HOPE Cape Town or the RC church – new ideas and new perspectives for the work in Cape Town are being formed in my mind and as it looks I also will do pastoral work for the cruise-liner industry once in a while, organised by the Kath. Auslandssekretariat of the DBK.  A new task adding to the variety of my work portfolio.

So until now even the German weather cannot dampen my good mood and spirit and I hope for productive days ahead.

A place where loving couples express their love in a different way - Cologne

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10/13/2011 • 1:03 am Comments Off on SVD – Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini

SVD – Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini

This evening a talk on HIV and the church at the SVD institute for missionary work in Siegburg – St. Augustin. A lively debate and the clear message at the end that we still have to go a way until we accept HIV positive people, also priests and religious without any stigma into the church. Also the question of vocations of HIV positive persons has potential for quite a debate amongst  those in charge of the ministries of the church. It is good to know that religious orders are keen to get involved within the church with these questions.

SVD Talk in Siegburg / Germany

HIV AIDS in the church

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10/11/2011 • 10:00 pm Comments Off on BUGA 2011

BUGA 2011

A very exciting day in Koblenz - Germany

AIDS Action Day @ the BUGA (Federal Flower Show) in Koblenz Germany. A great day with lots of info, good music and attentive listeners.

Thanks to the AIDS Hilfe Koblenz, Woodstaudt and the Hildegard von Bingen Schule for their input and support of HOPE Cape Town, but also to make such a day possible.

Also thanks to the administration of the Federal Flower Show to allow such a day and make us all feel welcome and at home during the day.

More information either at your local AIDS Hilfe in Koblenz for local support or at www.hopecapetown.com for info on the work of HOPE Cape Town.

More impressions:

Hildegard von Bingen Schule hands over a cheque to HOPE Cape Town

an informative video to be shown during the day about HOPE Cape Town

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10/06/2011 • 2:02 pm 1

Flying again…

Time is flying and also the time has come to fly to Germany for an extensive and mixed programme of talks, presentations, meetings etc.

Tuesday, 11.10.2011 will see the AIDS Action Day of the National Flower Show in Germany (BUGA Koblenz) in Koblenz – meet the Koblenzer Aidshilfe, myself and others involved in the fight against HIV and AIDS on the “Rheinland Pfalz Buehne” on the BUGA.

Wednesday 12.10.2011 – 19h30 in Bonn Siegburg (SVD Priesterseminar) AIDS in Africa – Barmherzigkeit ist nicht genug – a lecture on HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Church related questions

Thursday 13.10.2011 I will visit the Domradio in Cologne and the D-Radio, the first digital radio Cologne – listen in between 18h00 and 19h30..

More on twitter – stefan_capetown

Looking forward to many encounters in Germany and obviously don’t forget the prestigious HOPE Gala in Dresden – 30.10.2011.

Vortrag in Bonn – Siegburg St Augustin

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09/23/2011 • 10:29 am Comments Off on Ithemba Ward with new playgrounds…

Ithemba Ward with new playgrounds…

ithemba Ward - HOPE Cape Town 2011

HOPE Cape Town and volunteers have made it possible: a new playroom for the children of the Ithemba Ward of Tygerberg Children’s Hospital. Thanks to all and everybody donating time and energy and money to make it happen.

now its fun to play

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