Monthly Updates

Blessings to readers observing Holy Week and Passover

• Update on victims of violence
• Plea for funds to respond to xenophobia
• Shared Iftaar with our Muslim neighbours
• Pausing to reflect during Lent

Blessings to readers observing Lent and Ramadan

• Speaking out for victims of violence
• AGM with Mayor and Archbishop
• Outstanding service by DHC workers
• Entering into periods of Fasting

• Homeless Conversation in Cape Town
• UK news and a great time to donate
• Honouring our Departed
• Fun times raising Funds

Wishing blessings to Jewish and Hindu friends celebrating special festivals at this time

• Psalms of Suffering and Hope
• Update on Healthcare for Foreign Nationals
• Providing Work and Dignity for Homeless men
• Celebrating our different Heritages

• Marking Women’s Month at the DHC
• Latest on Healthcare blockade
• Honouring Paddy through a lecture and a visit
• Webinar on Counting the Homeless

• Street Store serves another 1,000 people
• Changes within our social work team
• Tributes following three untimely deaths
• Staff outing to try new skills

• The Municipality reacting to the homeless
• Churches working together
• A homeless German man arrives home
• Support from a loyal Dutch partner

• Much Fun at a Jazzy Sunday Afternoon
• Ways of connecting with Lent
• Marking Ramadan with our Neighbours
• 5 years on – Memories of COVID

• The Search begins for a New Director
• Highlights from our recent AGM
• Winners of this year’s Barry Wood Awards
• On-line Seminar on Addiction

• A unique shared Meal helps reconcile
• Graduation at the Dalton creche
• A new bookshop for Street Lit
• Looking back over our Anniversary year

• National Homeless Conversation at the DHC
• Embassy Reception in London
• Annual Justice & Peace Lecture
• Rest in Peace: Priscilla McKay (1940-2024)

• Inspirational Christian Conference
• Cross of Nails arrives in Durban
• Talks about Paddy Kearney
• Farewell to two fearless South Africans

• Annual lecture by Judge Chris Nicholson
• Book launched about Paddy Kearney
• Support for the DHC from the UK
• Film festival focusing on lost voices

• Three New Faces in our Clinic Team
• Receiving the Coventry Cross of Nails
• Street Store 2024
• Book shops, book drive, and a book launch!

• Election Day 2024
• Preparing for the Elections
• A Knight in Shining Under Armour
• The Leadership Role of Catholic Schools

• Lectures about +Hurley and St Oscar Romero
• Diakonia Good Friday Service
• Partnership with DUT Drama Department
• Paddy and other DHC friends honoured

• Remembering +Hurley 20 years after his death   
• The DHC reports back in its 10th year
• Winners of the Barry Wood Awards
• 7th National Homeless Conversation

• A special link to the Day of Reconciliation
• Happy Endings after a frustrating theft
• Reflections from an Oblate trainee
• Re-capping recent Arts events

• Fundraising Christmas Concert
• Remembering those who Inspired Us
• An unusual Retreat at the DHC
• Eve of World AIDS Day

• Meet Maighlin, our new Clinic Co-ordinator
• Irish and Israeli youth leading sports
• Church conference on social justice
• Ways of marking Heritage Month

• Annual Paddy Kearney Memorial Lecture
• Founder’s Day and the ‘Paddy Grant’
• Law students, police and the homeless
• An Angel flies into our Pharmacy

• ‘Round Table’ at DUT to honour Paddy Kearney
• Street Store returns for the 5th time
• Two overseas cooks raising funds for us
• A host of engagements with partners

• Homeless Man to chair Municipal committee
• Holy Family Sisters meet in Rwanda
• Digital Art on display After Dark
• An invitation to eThekwini Municipality

• Marking Human Rights Day
• Interfaith Iftaar
• Making Holy Week holy
• Reports from the UK

• The Start of Lent
• Annual Stakeholders’ Meeting
• Barry Wood Awards for Service
• Partnership to tackle TB

Blessings of Hannukah, Christmas and the New Year!

• Meal of Reconciliation restored
• Justice and Peace Lecture
• A life saved and transformed
• A chance to say thank you in 2022

• Learning from other Metros
• Learning from the Homeless
• The power of live theatre
• Remembering those who have passed

• UKZN law students offering help
• Update from Dalton on Heritage Day
• Women of Substance
• Remembering the late Queen Elizabeth II

• Pravin Gordhan delivers Paddy Kearney lecture
• DHC team inspired by other NGOs
• Exploring the issue of ‘Spatial Justice’
• Our Street Lit Co-ordinator receives an award

• Positive news in the fight against AIDS
• Chiropractors changing lives for free
• Prestigious venue for our booksellers
• The return of Street Store

• London Reception celebrates 10 years
• Threat to put 550 homeless back on the streets
• Synod discussions from non-Catholic leaders
• What the homeless really want from churches