Sunday 20 May 2018

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial 2018

Today (Sunday 20 May) is International Candlelight Memorial Day. On this Pentecost Sunday, we lit candles, read prayers and remembered people living with HIV, as well as those we have lost to HIV.




Big thank you Cathedral bookshop

On Saturday 19 May, CHATT organised a morning tea for the Cathedral Bookshop and Volunteers to thank them for their incredible work over the years. The Bookshop has raised funds for many initiatives supported by the Cathedral. This includes funding CHATT's activities, especially the work we do 'caring for carers'.





Sunday 14 January 2018

It's 2018! CHATT is going strong & excited about the year ahead

Our annual CHATT social activity took place over a delicious breakfast on 13 January at Rhodes Memorial Tea Garden. Desire Martin, the Cathedral's communications lead and a super supporter of CHATT joined us for the breakfast. CHATT involves a beautiful group of people - we enjoy each others' company, fellowship together and do important work to speak up against social injustice, especially stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV.





World AIDS Day 2017

At our 9h30 Cathedral service on 26 November 2017, to mark World AIDS Day, CHATTers wore t-shirts carrying messages against HIV and TB-related stigma. We processed with the clergy, spoke to the entire congregation about why HIV remains critical and affects us all, prayed for people living with and most affected by HIV, and spoke with Cathedral members during the tea and coffee after the service to share information, resources, experiences and stories of support.