I do worry about my health but I worry more about people who take this virus for granted.

This is the story of Samantha Vilakazi, as told to Teagyn Gracey

Tags: care worker, CCW, community care worker, covid-19, healthcare worker, Support
Posted on 26 Aug 2020 under Stories and news from the frontline.

I’m concerned about my health during this pandemic because I don’t earn much money and we don’t have medical aid.

I am Phina Seefane, a community healthcare worker from Limpopo. I have been working at Daspoort clinic for 8 years now.  I’ve come to realise that I am good at helping my community with their lives! Mostly we find that people don’t have food and clothes and so we try to help them with this. […]

Tags: community care worker, community healthcare worker, Eljade Huis, healthcare worker, Limpopo
Posted on 25 Aug 2020 under Stories and news from the frontline.

We haven’t lost anyone in our team yet, thank God, though most of our community healthcare workers have been infected.

This is a story about Lorraine Matloga from Tembisa, as told to Jade Jacobsohn

Tags: community care worker, coronaviris, covid, covid19, essential worker, healthcare worker, masked heroes
Posted on 23 Aug 2020 under Stories and news from the frontline.

Community Care Workers – Heroes on the front line

A version of this first appeared in the Star Newspaper on the 10th of June. Sadly, our friend and colleague Malini passed away a week later. By Malini Mohana “I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls […]

Tags: care worker, clinical psychologist, community care worker, coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, health care workers, malini mohana, psychologist, social workers, south africa
Posted on 30 Jun 2020 under Stories and news from the frontline.