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Marist Mercy Care Addo | Eastern Cape | South Africa Marist Mercy Care Addo | Eastern Cape | South Africa What is Marist Mercy Care? Achievements 2018 Marist Mercy Care is a collaborative effort between the Marist Crèche and Pre School: Caring for 140 children with a staff of Brothers, Sisters of Mercy and Lay Persons in the Sundays River 8 dedicated educators. Registered with Department of Social Development as a partial care facility and education institute. Valley, Addo, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Registered as an NPO, NPC and PBO. The project has been in existence for over ten years and assists Soup Kitchen: Soup Kitchens run 4 days a week feeding 400 families who are from incredibly disadvantaged communities, with a children and adults. specific focus on children. Clinic: Three dedicated Home Based Carers attending to those who are sick and dying. Hundreds of patients helped. 20 patients Programs include a Crèche and Pre-School, Clinic, Soup Kitchens transported daily to hospital. and Adult Learning programs as well as the Summer Camp. Food Parcels: 50 Parcels per week to those who have very little other sources of nourishment. Marist Mercy Care work extensively with children who have been abused and those that have HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, Cancer and other Education Classes: 295 Adult Graduates common South African illnesses. Summer Camp: 426 disadvantaged children, 20 special needs children, 50 volunteers, and 800 Christmas presents distributed. Sharing Our Call & Summer Camp An annual Summer Camp is held in one of the poorest townships in the Eastern Cape known as Langbos and started over ten years ago. Since 2014, The Summer Camp is run alongside the Sharing Our Call program involving the newly appointed Head Students, from each of the five Marist Schools in South Africa, for the following year. The program is run by Sr Martha O’Connor & Sr Breda Ryan (Sisters of Mercy), Br Christopher Zimmermann (Marist Brother) and Jason Grieve (St Henry’s Marist College Head Boy 2007 & founder of the Sharing Our Call program). This year we welcomed four hundred and twenty six children from the Langbos Informal Settlement and Valencia Formal Settlement, ten newly appointed Marist Student Leaders from the five South African Marist Schools, eleven From Top Left: Bogosi Msutwana, Njabulo Radebe, Lebogang Mathe, Bulelani Marist Alumni representing the five Marist Schools in South Kayingo, Busisiwe Radebe, Luthando Diba, Tashinga Chibaya, Kelsey Jones, Jesse Blignaut, Samuel Conrad, Joshua Clegg, Mandisa Msongelwa, Lyle Robson, Johanna Africa and two Marist German Alumni. Dittrich, Sean Ramsden, Nina, Daniel O’Sullivan-Hewlett, Noelene, Lena Krottenthaler, Sr Breda, Vanessa, Br Chris, Sr Martha. From Bottom Left: Br Jude, Leago Sebesho, Jason Grieve, Tamia Thomas, Zanzi Matsebula, Jaime van der Walt, Tariro Banganayi, Caitlyn Leigh Thomas, Br Misheck Throughout the week, a summer camp involving sporting, 10 newly appointed Marist South African dance, crafts, reading and word search, kindles and Head Student Leaders, computer skills is run for the children of the Langbos Informal Settlement and Valencia Formal Settlement. 11 Marist South African Alumni The vast majority of the children who attend the Summer representing each School, Camp come from homes where they do not have enough food or access to basic needs, but more than that, they come from homes where they do not receive the kind of 2 Marist German Alumni, love and attention which young children so desire. 426 Disadvantaged Children, Our Marist Alumni run a separate program in the afternoon for children who are too sick or have disabilities and are unable to attend our morning Summer Camp. 20 Special Needs Children, At the end of the week, the Marists distributed 800 Christmas gifts to the children and adults of the Valencia 30 Local Volunteers, Formal Settlement. 800 Christmas Gifts Throughout the week, Marist Alumni mentor the newly appointed Marist Head Students. The Marist Alumni are former Head Student Leaders of their respective Marist Schools. Addo | Eastern Cape | South Africa 2 Figure 12AgesWe had at the426 Summer children Campat the rangeSummer from Camp 4 to ranging16. Our betweenolder 4 . Above: Sr Martha and Sr Breda with Emily, a girl who had childrenand 16 years. have Oura seperate older childrenactivity wherepartake they in alearn different computer program lessons, where Above: The new Marists with Jason Grieve and Br Chris in Uitenhage at litheyfe skills, learn career computer options skills, and health health education education and career skills Tuberculosis and was being monitored by our Home Based the Marist Care soup kitchen. Carers until she succumbed to her illness in July Above: Pam Mills, an educator at Sacred Heart Marist College. Pam leads the dance activity for our children at the Summer Above: One of the Groups with a Marist on the field. We have no Camp running water, electricity or sports field. Left: Johanna Dittrich and Lena Krottenthaler are Marist Alumni from Germany. Johanna is our third international . Marist volunteer and will be helping at our Pre School for the next ten months. Above: We welcomed 426 children at the Summer Camp. Each child is given food and drink. In most circumstances this will be their only meal of the day. Addo | Eastern Cape | South Africa 3 My adventure to Addo began on the 6th December 2009 with two of my friends (Adam Watson and Leroy Sibisi) who also attended St Henry’s Marist College in 2007. We were invited by Br Chris to be part of a Summer Camp in one of the poorest informal settlements in the Eastern Cape known as Langbos. Together with Sr Martha, Breda, Mary and Br Chris under the banner Marist Mercy Care, my friends and I successfully completed our week running activities for ninety disadvantaged children from the Sundays River Valley. From then, I could never have imagined the growth of my involvement in the area with the Marist Brothers and Sisters of Mercy. Since 2009, I travel to Addo frequently to assist the Brothers and Sisters in many aspects of their projects. It has been unbelievable to be part of Marist Mercy projects and seeing them develop over the years. From helping formalize and become a Director of Jason Grieve, Founder of the Sharing Our Call, Head Boy of St Henry’s the Place of Mercy and Hope that cares for a Crèche, Pre School, Soup Marist College 2007 and Financial Director of the Place of Mercy and Kitchen and Clinic, to carrying incredibly sick children to hospital, and to Hope. see the registration of our School with the Department of Social Development. Growth and sustainability our vision for Addo! Br Chris was one of the people responsible for building the Place of Mercy and Hope. It consists of two transformed forty foot containers and three brick classrooms. As such, I consider this a Marist School where our children are taught the ethos of Marist and Mercy. The Sundays River Valley, whilst world renowned for Citrus and the Addo Elephant Park, has significant poverty. There have been many deaths this year due to HIV/Aids and Tuberculosis. Our Home Based Carers work out Figure 56 dd of a transformed forty foot container and deal with these situations daily. Adults and children are equally affected. In 2014, I wanted more Marists to experience this truly Marist project in Addo. With the Sisters’ and Brothers’ guidance, we developed the Sharing Above: Jay Jay and Shaun Salter at the Place of Mercy and Hope in a Our Call program involving the newly appointed Marist Student Leaders newly renovated Classroom. The Classroom was renovated thanks to a (Head Boy and Head Girl) for the following year, to be part of our Summer donation from Marist Brothers Linmeyer Alumni. Camp. We have created a new kind of leadership camp. We put these Marist Below: Sr Breda with Mthimkulu Pamla (Head Prefect St Henry’s Marist students in real life situations with children (many of whom do not speak College 2007) and Bulelani Kayingo (Marist Mercy Volunteer since English) and guide them in running activities for the children of the Sundays 2010) River Valley. There are limited resources and no electricity or running water. The Marists are exposed to our projects whilst working in very difficult circumstances throughout the week. Since the first Sharing Our Call the response has been incredible! Annually, we have past Marist leaders wanting to be part of the Summer Camp and Sharing Our Call program. These Marists, now Marist Alumni, want to return to the Summer Camp and Sharing Our Call to share knowledge and experiences with the new Marist Student Leaders so that they are suitably equipped for their year ahead. Addo | Eastern Cape | South Africa 4 We do not advertise nor promote volunteers for this program. However, we are inundated with Marists in South Africa and Internationally wanting to be part of our program. We have unintentionally created a significant Marist Youth network. All Marists who return to our program have been part of the program in prior years. They were Head Boys and Head Girls of their respective Marist Schools in South Africa. In 2018, we had a Marist Alumnus from each Marist School in South Africa. A significant milestone for not just Marist Mercy Care but for Marist South Africa. The Marist Alumni who attend our program are all currently studying for degrees such as Medicine, Law, Engineering and Accounting, to name a few. They are all willing to travel to Addo for this program at their own expense and involve themselves to their best ability. A project such as the Sharing Our Call and Summer Camp commences planning a year in advance due to our vast numbers. The Sisters, Brothers Marist Youth 2018 and I have to take into account many unpredictable factors due to the remoteness of Addo and the unexpected events that could occur during a Leago Lee Sebesho ***** week such as this.
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