Holy Cross Hospice

Providing quality care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers since 1994.

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Where we serve

Botswana, in sub-Saharan Africa, has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world: according to the United Nations, one in every four adults in Botswana lives with HIV/AIDS. The number of people affected by HIV/AIDS - those who have lost friends and family - is far greater. Among those are children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Holy Cross Hospice serves people living with HIV/AIDS, their families, caregivers and orphans in four neighborhoods Botswana's capital city: Old Naledi, Gaborone Central, Gaborone West and Broadhurst.

What we do

A ministry of the Anglican Cathedral of Botswana, Holy Cross Hospice began in 1994 in effort to reach out to the terminally ill and their families. Since then, the Hospice has developed into a team of doctors, nurses, social workers, community members and international volunteers. Our activities revolve around the Loratong Day Care Centre, where clients, their children and children of former clients come for meals, skills training and medical care four days a week. In addition, our social workers and nurses continue to provide home-based medical care and psychosocial support.

Where we are going

In the next three years, Holy Cross Hospice will be expanding dramatically, in response to the growing number of clients and children coming to the Day Care Centre. First, we will begin this year construction of an orphan centre in Old Naledi, called Bana ba Naledi: "Child of the Star." The centre will serve 100 orphans and vulnerable children in the Old Naledi area. Second, we have recently begun planning of a residential palliative care clinic, to be located at Tlokweng, about 20 kilometers southeast of Gaborone. The thirty-bed hospice will serve three populations: those just released from local hospitals but not well enough to go home; patients whose caregivers need short-term respites; and lastly those in the last stages of AIDS.