Lorraine Doña and Carolina Delgado visits

The morning of the 29th of Octobre we had 2 visitors, Lorraine Doña and Carolina Delgado, Loraine Doña is the new provincial Coordinator of the Andalucian Agency for Volunteers. We were able to show them the Centre and introduce them to the volunteers that were in the Centre. J...

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Another Care Volunteer meeting

The monthly meetings to support & follow up the care volunteers are a venue where they can exchange experiences, feelings & questions; they also get to know each other. In September’s meeting, following a dynamic “fishing for emotions” exercise, the volunteers had the opportunity to reflect on what they thought their work in Cudeca gave them.

Sensara Fashion Show in aid of Cudeca Hospice

Sensara, the beautiful development especially designed for people over the age of 55, in Benalmádena Pueblo, organised a Fashion Show in aid of Cudeca on the 24th October 2009. Our two shops in Arroyo de la Miel provided lots of lovely outfits for what turned out to be anoth...

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End of the visits to the Charity Shops

The training sessions at each of the 13 charity shops concluded satisfactorily. All who participated said that they found the sessions valuable & voiced their worries about Cudeca’s difficult financial situation which is mirrored in the shop takings. Many shops will be organis...

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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.  

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...

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