The grant applied for at the beginning of the year has been approved by The Andalucian Agency for Volunteers. It will support the Cudeca Home Care Volunteer programme by funding recruitment & training.
Pepe returns to Cudeca
At the end of April Pepe Martinez, one of our volunteers & friends had to take a break from volunteering due to health reasons. We were thrilled when he was able to renew his Thursday morning activities on 22nd October. He has been helping for more than 7 years. We want to take this opportunity to welcome Pepe back & thank him for his unconditional support.
Cudeca Autumn Concert representing Spain in the 2009 Voices for Hospices world-wide performances
The International Palliative Care Day consists of a collective movement to celebrate and support the World Wide Palliative Care movement. The act took place this year on the 9-10th October 2009.
Voices for Hospices, celebr...
Hospice and palliative care: Discovering your voice
Unifying story for 2009 event
A story from Malaysia submitted anonymously has been chosen as the unifying story for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day events around the world. This story was chosen because it clearly shows how hospice and palliative care makes a ...
Oximesa collaboration
Oximesa, the Home Oxygen Therapy Company, has supported the Cudeca Cancer Care Hospice by donating 2 oxygen machines and 2 oxygen bottles to help care for the patients in the Inpatient Unit.
Cudeca would like to thank Oximesa for this generous donation, that will help us to continue offering our “Special Kind of Caring”.
Volunteer satisfaction questionaire
Knowledge about how volunteers do their work is extremely important for Cudeca. Every year we ask the volunteers to complete a questionnaire so we can continue to improve the programme. 149 volunteers completed the form in 2008 which was almost a 40% increase over the previous year. Th...
Meeting Lions Club
We had a further meeting on the 11th September in the Lions Club Nerja to carry on the work started earlier in the year. Amongst the conclusions reached it was decided to start the Information & Counselling service in Nerja. This service will now be every 2nd Friday in the month. Susan Hannam, Cudeca...
TRE holds Summer Party for Cudeca
Talk Radio Europe held another ‘Party for Cudeca’ on 29th August 2009. Maurice Boland, TRE Director, invited listeners to organise a party, inviting friends and asking them for a donation in aid of Cudeca.
We had a huge response from TRE listeners from all over Spain, who held a sum...
Alejandra Mérida Sánchez Celebrates her Birthday in aid of Cudeca
On Saturday 12th September, Alejandra Mérida Sánchez celebrated her birthday party together with family and friends in Estepona.
Alejandra’s parents wanted to celebrate a “Charity Birthday Party” to teach the children that it is not only important ...
EXPERTS WANTED!
Cudeca is sometimes donated articles which are obviously more valuable than the norm sold in our charity shops. Our problem is to find people to help us in validating, valuing (and possibly even repairing) them - and for this reason we are appealing for anyone with a keen amateur interest or professional e...