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Vatican RadioInterview with Father Gérard on 27 July 2009
Responding to the AIDS problem in kwaZulu-Natal, the Blessed Gerard Care Centre.
Today we are going to visit a centre which has developed in response to the problem of AIDS in rural South Africa. The centre is found in KwaZulu-Natal, just over 100 kms north of Durban, in the town of Mandeni, in an area which is said to have the highest rate of AIDS anywhere. Mandeni lies on the trucking route between Durban and Mozambique, a fact that contributed to this high rate of infection.
The Blessed Gerard Centre is named after the founder of the Knights of Malta who have contributed greatly to the construction of the centre through the foundation, Brotherhood of Blessed Gerard, first set up in 1992. The building was opened in 1996 and since then has grown in response to the needs of the people.
Fr. Gerard Lagleder is a Benedictine missionary and it was he together with a local doctor, who saw that something had to be done to help relieve the suffering of the people in Mandeni.
Fr Gerard shared with us about what led him to see the need for the Blessed Gerard Centre.
That was the first part of an interview with Benedictine missionary, Fr. Gerard Lagleder, telling us about the work of the Blessed Gerard Care centre in Mandeni.
If you would like to learn more abut their work you can visit their web site. The address is www.bbg.org.za
You can contact Fr. Gerard by writing to: fatherbbg.org.za
[quoted from: http://www.radiovaticana.org/en3/Articolo.asp?c=307638]
For further information visit: http://bbg.org.za/vatican.htm
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