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Proceeds from Mission Bazaar support our AIDS Hospice

Beautiful angels, Christmas trees and stars

Finally, the Advent Bazaar again - with required distance and in compliance with all Corona regulations

Brightly shining trees for the Advent and pre-Christmas season

For many years now, the women of the Mission Committee of the parish of St. Antonius in Rheine (North Rhine-Westphalia) have been supporting our work in Ekukhanyeni in South Africa with the proceeds of their traditional mission bazaar.

This year, the Mission Committee of St. Anthony's Parish in Rheine (North Rhine-Westphalia) once again organised a mission bazaar - under the strictest conditions and in compliance with all hygiene and corona regulations.

Volunteers had spent many months creating, cooking, tailoring, knitting and decorating with love. The Mission Committee has donated the proceeds of the bazaar to our hospice in Ekukhanyeni in South Africa.

Ekukhanyeni is located on the edge of "The Valley of a Thousand Hills”, a poor, rural area. The Congregation of Oakford runs an AIDS hospice there. This is an after-care facility of our former Osindisweni hospital. Not only AIDS patients are cared for here, but also chronically ill and some elderly people who no longer have relatives and who come from very poor backgrounds.

The AIDS Hospice sponsors volunteer caregivers who visit the sick and poor in "The Valley of a Thousand Hills" and, if necessary, initiate other social assistance. The AIDS Hospice also supports a small orphanage in the area.

The contact with the mission committee of the parish of St. Antonius in Rheine came about through one of our benefactors, Magdalene Wolters from Rheine. She founded the mission committee of the parish of St. Antonius in Rheine and has been working with us for many years.

Magdalene Wolters loves South Africa. She has been very involved in the facilities of the Dominican Sisters of St Catherine of Siena of Oakford/Natal for many years. She discovered her love for South Africa during her stay at the Oakford Priory mission station from the beginning of 1981 to the end of 1983, she says. Since then, she has arranged sponsorships that have helped hundreds of children.

Magdalene Wolters runs her own sponsorship website on which she describes how the sponsorship moneys are used and which projects they support.

We would like to thank Mrs. Wolters and all the committed members of the mission committee of the parish of St. Antonius in Rheine, all the helpers and all those who have worked and used their spare time to create so many beautiful things.