When someone has COVID-19 sickness from infection with novel coronavirus, the most common symptoms are: fever cough,  tiredness, and  shortness of breath.  Sometimes people may also have aches and pains, nasal congestion, runny nose, a sore throat or a headache. Rarely, patients may also present

If you would like to offer your site for use by an NGO or Government Department, please fill out this form. If you would like to offer your Church Site as a full Care Centre, please fill out this form. If you would like to

You may decide as a local church that you have the capacity and expertise within your congregation to be involved in some key frontline responses during the lockdown period. If this is so, the first place to start would be to compile an inventory of

At the moment, a huge amount of local community mobilisation is happening across the country. In Cape Town, this is largely in the form of Community Action Networks (CAN!s). One of the best ways for churches and church members to be good neighbours within their

The church has an extremely wide reach in South Africa. If you are a church leader, consider how you can connect with and mobilise impactful responses from the people within your sphere of influence at this time. Some questions to help you think through this

The local church has one of the most valuable resources available in times of crisis; readily arranged networks of people. The first important step to take is to map and become aware of these networks. Find out if there is a church database of members,