African Hospice Partnership

Providing the “Gold Standard” in Comfort Care

African Hospice Partnership

Hospice East Rand

Hospice of the Calumet Area, Inc.

Thirty years ago the hospice movement in America mobilized in many locales because people were dying alone in hospitals, anxious and afraid, frequently in pain, hooked up to machines, and often ignored by healthcare workers. Today that has changed. Most Americans have the option of hospice care and of dying at home. Most can be relatively pain free and able to spend valuable time with their love ones. We know that children need special attention, and that dying is a normal process. We even know that healing, growth, and transcendence happen as part of life closure and effective grieving.

Today, sub-Saharan Africa is on the cutting edge of the hospice movement on our planet and we are being called to respond—just as we were 30 years ago.

Today, global HIV/AIDS has spawned a situation parallel, but far more desperate than we faced 30 years ago. In sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 7,000 people are dying each day; Many are alone and in pain, in the midst of stigma, gender abuse and child neglect, and anxious and afraid. In some countries, there is no access to basic pain medication while hunger and poverty are common co-morbidities. In the midst of this situation, which many public health agencies have already called the worst epidemic ever, African hospice and palliative care programs are heroically struggling to start and scale up services.

For these reasons, Hospice of the Calumet Area has partnered with Hospice East Rand. This mutually beneficial relationship fosters intercultural learning between both hospices and creates resource mobilization for the African program.

Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa (FHSSA) offers a unique way in which U.S. donors can help improve the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDS pandemic. Leadership provided by FHSSA ensures that donations will benefit African hospices via a regionally coordinated program with monitoring, evaluation, and a consistently high standard of care.

To make an online donation to FHSSA, click here.

A Tanzanian mother shows off her baby to

Paulina, one of the hospice nurses.

Though the language may change, many of the hymns are the same. A Hospice of the Calumet Area nurse takes a singing break with some of the villagers.

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Hospice of the Calumet Area, Inc.

600 Superior Ave., Munster, IN 46321

3224 Ridge Road, Suite 202 & 203, Lansing, IL 60438

Phone: 219.922.2732 / 708.895.8332 / 219.736.2422

Fax: 219.922.1947

E-mail: info@hospicecalumet.org