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01/22/2011 • 11:30 am Comments Off on AGM’s

AGM’s

AGM’s always sound like long meetings with boring topics – a pain in the neck for most of us. Well, I attended two yesterday and both went smoothly and in a professional way without wasting time or rushing through important issues. Well prepared might be the secret of it.
It is amazing to listen to the chair of the HOPE Cape Town Association just giving her report and suddenly things almost forgotten from the last year come to mind again – the last year was indeed full of action and development.
It seems we also get the balance between the HOPE Cape Town Association as the working body and the HOPE Cape Town Trust as the body safeguarding our finances right and slowly but surely things are falling in place, thought about and prepared and sometimes even fantasized about years ago. It is a great feeling to sit in such AGM”s and seeing the process having a meaningful outcome – and, this is not less important: all responsible are agreeing about the way forward.
So Friday was a very good day for HOPE Cape Town Association and Trust and after the blessing of a new home for friends followed by a great supper I went to bed with a smile on my face.

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01/12/2011 • 8:39 am Comments Off on Job advertising HOPE Cape Town

Job advertising HOPE Cape Town

HOPE Cape Town

POSITION: DIRECTOR

Salary Range: Negotiable

(A portion of the package can be structured according to the individual’s personal needs)
Starting Date: immediately

HOPE Cape Town has been established in 2001 as a non-profit organisation working in education and outreach in the field of HIV/AIDS and related conditions in the Western Cape. Management of the paediatric Ithemba ward at Tygerberg Hospital as well as management and training of Community Health Workers employed by HOPE Cape Town in 16 townships surrounding Cape Town, as far as Grabouw belong to the core work of the organization. Nutritional and sport projects, as well as grassroots projects, research projects into traditional health practices and basic e-learning programs for health education are some of the activities in which the NGO specializes. Due to continued growth and expansion of the NGO, the position of a Director is now being advertised for HOPE CAPE TOWN to assist the management board and lead the staff.

Job description:

The Director will be responsible for the overall management of the organisation

He/she will

  • contribute to the development of the overall vision and strategic planning of the organisation
  • manage the day to day activities of the organisation
  • provide financial oversight of the organization with the support of the Finance Portfolio Committee
  • manage the organisation’s Human Resources
  • participate in fundraising for the organisation as well as represent and advocate HOPE Cape Town in the media
  • ensure the development and maintenance of strong partnerships internationally, regionally and nationally where appropriate

The Director reports directly to the Board.

Requirements:

Fluent in English and one other language (preferably German),

At least 5 years experience in a business/managerial position

Recommendations:

MBA, alternatively MBChB (MD) or equivalent

Medical background with an understanding of HIV/AIDS, especially in terms of the clinical, scientific, social and political aspects of the epidemic

Experience in working in partnership with civil society actors and advocates;
Knowledge of the commercial world and ability to nurture industry partnerships;
Experience in acting in a representative capacity;
Experience in fundraising and the capacity to engage with non-traditional sources of resource.

Enquiries: Kerstin Behlau, Phone: 021 – 938 9930, Email: admin @ hopecapetown.com

Please submit your application for the attention of Kerstin Behlau to HOPE Cape Town, P.O. Box 19145, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa (Email: admin @ hopecapetown.com). Successful candidates will be invited for an interview.

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11/20/2010 • 7:36 pm Comments Off on 20.11.2010 Companies as sponsors…

20.11.2010 Companies as sponsors…

Meeting with major sponsors is one of the major focus points while traveling in Europe. And it is one of the more tricky matters. Many people think it is easy: Someone wants go give money and someone wants to have money – that’s the deal.
But in the world of serious NGO’s there is more to it: Does the sponsor fit the projects objectives? What is the motivation? What is the reputation of a sponsor? Are sponsor and project able to go together in the next years to come?
HOPE Cape Town is taking sponsorships very seriously – companies which want to commit for a couple of years must fit the objectives of our project and must accept and support our mission statement. There must be a sort of relationship and for us from HOPE Cape Town it is important that someone of the company is able to visit and see by him/herself what HOPE Cape Town is all about. We are proud of our sponsors and they should be proud of the work we are doing.
At the end, money is not everything – only when there is a real partnership, sponsorship is making sense for me.

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11/07/2010 • 10:52 am Comments Off on 07.11.2010 AIDS Gala Berlin – and where is the bishop?

07.11.2010 AIDS Gala Berlin – and where is the bishop?

Again, I am guest at the German AIDS Gala in Berlin, the 17th of its kind. And again the German Oper Berlin is booked out and masses of people are flocking to attend this prestigious event. Michaela from Dresden is accompanying me to this event and after being picked up by the Shuttle Service at the hotel, it is once again a funny feeling to take the red carpet, letting the journalists and photographers guess who the couple is.. 🙂 Being asked how I felt about the feature of myself and HOPE Cape Town in the Berliner Morgenzeitung I must admit that I even didn’t know about it – nobody told me. Quick I realise that HOPE Cape Town will feature prominently this eve as one of the projects sponsored by the German AIDS Foundation. Brief chats with Her Highness, the Begum Aga Khan, the National foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and his husband and others from the Board of Trustees follow before the programme starts. And as now expected, the chairperson of the board of trustees of the German AIDS Gala in Berlin, the Begum Aga Khan tells the audience about her visit at HOPE Cape Town last year – a film shows her and me visiting the Ithemba Ward and I wish all our HOPE Community Health Workers, senior staff and management could hear the applause as she congratulates the projects and the priest for their work down there in the Western Cape. These are moments were I would love to beam myself away for the time being – sometimes it is interesting enough for me difficult to hear public praise. But it is also the feeling of encouragement present.

The programme contains great opera – I do enjoy it and when the Opera Children’s choir sings “Laudate Domino” I suddenly realise that there is no official representative of the church. And if feels suddenly so completely wrong: National ministers, certainly all important people of the local and national business world, politicians and artists are present – showing their committment towards the battle against a pandemic which changed the world – celebrating also partly a project, which originated and is still support by a German-speaking Catholic community and no representative of my church is present. And I suddenly realise that also in Dresden the last five years there was no-show of the local bishop or his representative. The sorrows and the joy of the people are the sorrows and the joy of us Christians – I ask myself whether it is not poor judgement to be not present visible as a church at major events where people from so different walks of life unify and come together in this important cause. I suddenly feel sad a moment, but then the joy of the choir carries me away from it.

Congratulations to the German AIDS Foundation and all its helper for this great eve – and I am grateful that within one week I am able to attend to major fundraising galas bringing hope and future again to South Africa. A big part of the proceeds of Berlin are also going to HOPE Cape Town and supporting our work. Deo gratias.

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11/05/2010 • 11:24 am Comments Off on 04.11.2010 TUM

04.11.2010 TUM

The workshop in Munich was excellent – lots of interesting information and the first ideas how to get the partnership between HOPE Cape Town,  Technical University Munich and the University of Stellenbosch going in the fields of HIV and sports. If everything is going well, we are planing to involve the community of Manenberg in a mentors programme and also try to get a project running which would see people living with HIV running the Two Ocean Marathon. But as always all needs a proper structure and some money. But i am hopeful that we succeed in launching both projects sooner than later.

This morning a talk with a representative of the Katholische Buero in Munich. We discuss the possible involvement of the Freisinger Bishops Conference in the partnership between Bavaria and the Western Cape.
Luncheon with my book agent to discuss possible new projects before heading to the University again to reflect on the workshop yesterday with the dean of sports sciences, Prof. Beckmann.

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