Last week St Joseph’s Home of Compassion in Silverstream was formally handed over to private provider Heritage Lifecare. Heritage Lifecare has been managing the facility since August 2022, which it has since purchased. Heritage Lifecare chief executive Norah Barlow said seeing the home close would have been a shame. “Losing this home and the vital Read more
Eulogies for a Timaru City Councillor speak of a man who started his life at the Home of Compassion and spent his life working for the benefit of others. Even as a toddler the young Terry Kennedy knew what he wanted and how to get it. His determination, persistence and stubbornness made Kennedy the man Read more
The Sisters of Compassion and the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference have announced the first Sunday of October as a day of celebration for the Venerable Suzanne Aubert. Suzanne Aubert was the founder of the Sisters of Compassion, New Zealand’s only home grown order of Sisters. In 1997 the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference supported Read more
On Friday 1 July the Compassion Soup Kitchen hosts its Annual Street Appeal with a variety of activities happening across Wellington. Over 200 volunteers will be out on the streets of the capital collecting donations from the public. In the past 12 months, the Compassion Soup Kitchen served 9,939 breakfasts and 17,493 dinners. Providing two Read more
An old creche in Memorial Park could bring an influx of tourists and millions of dollars to Wellington, but it’s not without headaches according to Suzanne Aubert Compassion Centre director Francis Fanning. Fanning said a key part of that plan would be to turn the Home of Compassion creche, which was built by Mother Aubert in Read more
The former Home of Compassion crèche on Buckle St in Wellington has reached its new home, but the future use of the building is undecided. The three-stage relocation involved moving the 200-tonne building 15 metres to the west and raising it 3m. Built in 1914, the creche continued the work that Mother Aubert began in Read more
In a recent interview published in the Fiji Times, Compassion Sister Annette Green shared some of her life story with reporter Sailosi Batiratu. Annette said she made her first trip to Fiji in 1962, teaching at St Agnes Primary School in Nabua until the end of 1976. This time she says she is there to help Read more
Sister Loyola Galvin, from the Home of Compassion in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay, was named national NZ Gardener of the Year 2008 by NZ Gardener magazine, and interviewed twice by Kim Hill in 2008. Filmmaker Jess Feast was inspired by those interviews to make a documentary film about Sister Loyola, Gardening With Soul, Read more
On Tuesday the senior residents and invited guests of the Chanel Home of Compassion in Tamavua, Fiji, took part in a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the construction of a new wing. The $3.5 million project will increase the bed capacity up to 33, and will make it easier to meet the greater needs of today Read more