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07/15/2010 • 10:47 pm Comments Off on 15.07.2010 Catholic AIDS network

15.07.2010 Catholic AIDS network

Meeting with Fr Sean and Sr. Margaret from the Catholic AIDS network. I just realise that I have a double booking on the 28.11. – one in Cape Town and the other in Hannover… well, even blackberries do not prevent the human factor… 🙂
We discuss a questionnaire we want to send out to all the parishes to get more information about what is done in the fields of HIV and AIDS in the catholic churches of the Archdiocese of Cape Town.

The Catholic Aids Network (CAN) is the official body of the Archdiocese of Cape Town dealing with the issue of HIV and AIDS and is so to speak a collection of all entities working within this fields. We try to create a room for exchange of ideas and stimulation for the pastoral work.

In the evening I am giving a talk at the Cape Town Club about HOPE Cape Town and it ends after a very interesting chat with some attendees over dinner with me signing up for the club. Well, I have to wait now for 30 days before I am formally introduced into the club if there is nobody voicing any concerns regarding my membership. I meet some very interesting people and the networking already has started.

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07/14/2010 • 10:30 pm Comments Off on 14.07.2010 Back to normal..

14.07.2010 Back to normal..

Besides office work today meeting with Clemens and Marion about their sports project, which they have had introduced to the TUM Munich. A brief discussion about how to develop and further this project.

At the end of the brief meeting someone used the opportunity to break in my car and take out a couple of things – and I am left with a broken window, lots of glass all over the show and spent the afternoon with police and other entities to get my case number and almost (yes almost) a new glass – but it did not fit.. So I have to wait whether tomorrow is my lucky glass day and by the way: plastic makes a meaningful glass substitute as I can hear now by the noise level how fast I am driving.  As I was busy with the aftermath almost all other appointments re-scheduled. Welcome back to the normality of South African life.

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07/13/2010 • 10:18 pm 1

13.07.2010 Confusing day…

It is indeed a confusing day… 9 out of 10 we got for the world cup organisation from Mr  S Blatter.  Our president promises that the lessons learned during the preparation will be brought now into action when it comes to health, education and other burning issues. At the same time thousands of non South Africans fleeing the country, threats, some death foreigners, some shops looted – but officially no xenophobia.

This is the time  most South Africans were afraid of – even during the jubilation and celebration of the Soccer World Cup 2010; they were afraid of the “days after”.  The start of these days is definitive bad news for the country – problems can only be solved when they are admitted.

Fleeing people back to Zimbabwe means also for many to stop treatment, to lose their medical support – it has more consequences than to be seen on TV. Let’s hope for a some good news in the next days…

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07/05/2010 • 11:50 pm Comments Off on 05.07.2010 New website

05.07.2010 New website

Creating a new website is always a bigger story.. chosing the right features, the right functionality. We are re-designing in the moment our HOPE Cape Town website and lots of work will go into every detail. Checking all the information, adding new ones, chosing the right pictures.. it is amazing what one has to consider to get it right at the end. And whether we get it right or not, that our supporters will decide – they have to like it and to find the information easily they want to know about.

So today another meeting on the new website – and an interview with the “Domradio” in Cologne – not about HIV and AIDS but about the soccer world cup and the perception of Germans in South Africa. One can feel that the world cup draws to an end, more requests came in on interviews for the coming week and the topic is always the same: What has this soccer world cup brought to the ordinary people of South Africa? We know that FIFA got their share on proceeds, that SJB could promote himself in many ways (and advertising himself as a good candidate for the Nobel Peace Price) – but what is the ordinary person thinking? What will be the legacy – and the debt for the future of South Africa? What does it mean for the fight against HIV and AIDS?

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07/02/2010 • 2:10 pm 1

01.07.2010 What happens..

…if I am silent and not blogging? That is the question I am more frequently asked. Well, the answer is very simple: I either do work I don’t want or I cannot tell about in the moment – there is a lot about confidentiality in the life of a priest – or I really take a break from the internet 🙂

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