GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - Despite restructuring last year, Camdeboo Hospice is not yet out of the woods. "Corporate funding has become so difficult to source and secure and we haven't managed to find anything yet," explained fundraiser Colleen Buckle.
The non-profit organisation currently provides home-based palliative care service to 91 terminally ill patients in Graaff-Reinet.
Ongoing income-generating projects include regular book sales at the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, jumble sales every Friday morning, and sales of pure Hospice Honey.
The first event of the year is the Crazy Book Clearance sale on Friday 28 February, outside Spandau Spar and on the Hospice stoep from 8am, with books and CDs at only R1. At Hospice, there will also be a selection of DVDs and LP records, with the "better" books inside the office at half price. Assorted bric-a-brac will also be sold on the stoep.
On Saturday 29 February a Blind Wine Tasting takes place at the Graaff-Reinet Club at 7pm. R150 per person includes tasting all the wine and a meal. During March, a Knit-a-Thon will be held, with the twofold aim of creating warm blankets and scarves for patients, and also raising some money towards the home-based care fund.
Volunteers are asked to knit or crochet 20cm squares, and to get friends to sponsor them per square. Donations of wool are most welcome.
All participants are invited to a meeting on Monday 2 March at 10am at the Assembly Church Café, when sponsor forms and wool donations, if needed, will be issued.
More information is available from the office on 049 892 4608.
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