Nazareth House Cape Town opened its doors in 1882 when a small group of Sisters arrived from London o
07/11/2025
All the freedom you desire with the peace of mind you deserve ... Independent living at Nazareth Care offers:
• Safe & secure living
• Freedom of movement within a community
• Hassle-free living with services included
• 24-hour emergency care
• The option of add-on private care
For more information, please follow the link below or follow the link in our profile. www.nazarethcare.co.za
05/11/2025
Nazareth House Durban has been selected as one of the official beneficiaries of the Ocean 8 Charity Swim.
The Oceans 8 Charity Swim is South Africa’s first warm water ocean event, and it’s all for charity! Whether you're an experienced swimmer or new to open water, this is your chance to take part in an incredible cause. All funds raised by 1 and 4-mile swimmers will directly support our work at Nazareth House Durban.
🌊 Going the distance where it matters!
✅ 1 & 4 mile swimmers fundraise for our 10 invitational charities
✅ 8 & 16 mile swimmers champion one of our 4 founding charities
Choose your distance.
Choose your impact.
👉 Early Bird entries now open at oceans8swim.co.za
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03/11/2025
🎄Xmas Campaign
This December, we invite you to a magical night of Christmas carols filled with festive cheer. Come and enjoy a heartwarming sing-along hosted by a local musical act, savour seasonal snacks and drinks, and share in the joy of a wonderful community atmosphere with friends and family
Your ticket helps us buy beautiful, reusable Christmas decorations to make the holiday season magical for our residents for years to come!
Today is National Children's Day. The aim of this celebration is to highlight progress being made towards the realisation and promotion of rights of children in South Africa. Let's continue to pray for our children – they are our future!
29/10/2025
Today is the last day to RSVP for our Open Day on Sat, Nov 1st.
Join us for a private walk-through and information session of our assisted living units at Larmenier Garden Suites, where cosy dining, a host of activities, and compassionate care create the perfect homely atmosphere for our residents.
What To Expect:
Facility Tour
Explore our renovated home, secure living spaces with ensuite bathrooms and scenic views.
Meet our Team
Chat with our dedicated staff about life at Nazareth House and how we can help you.
Location: Larmenier Garden Suites at Nazareth House, Cape Town - 1 Derry St, Vredehoek, Cape Town.
To ensure a personal and comprehensive tour for every our guests, we are offering a limited number of private viewing slots.
- Only 4 exclusive hourly slots are available
- Bookings are essential and must be confirmed by Tuesday, 29th October
Henco Walker, CEO of Nazareth House African Region is passionate about creating opportunities that uplift others. Over the past 8 months, he’s trained hard, lost 35 kilograms, and is building up the endurance to take on the 4-mile swim - all for a cause that’s close to his heart. 🙌🙌
Nazareth Care Africa has served vulnerable children and the elderly for over 140 years, and this swim is his way of honouring that legacy while giving back through the .
Let’s and for every person whose life can be changed through kindness in action. 💙
"Live independently, surrounded by care when you need it."
Join us for a private walk-through and information session of our assisted living units at Larmenier Garden Suites, where cosy dining, a host of activities, and compassionate care create the perfect homely atmosphere for our residents.
What To Expect:
Facility Tour
Explore our renovated home, secure living spaces with ensuite bathrooms and scenic views.
Meet our Team
Chat with our dedicated staff about life at Nazareth House and how we can help you.
Location: Larmenier Garden Suites at Nazareth House, Cape Town - 1 Derry St, Vredehoek, Cape Town.
To ensure a personal and comprehensive tour for every our guests, we are offering a limited number of private viewing slots.
- Only 4 exclusive hourly slots are available
- Bookings are essential and must be confirmed by Tuesday, 29th October
All of our houses have tea and coffee stations to ensure that a good cuppa is at hand whenever you need it.
17/10/2025
At Nazareth House Durban, our living spaces provide a warm, homely atmosphere with all the comforts you need. Enjoy community in our shared spaces, relax in the library, unwind in sunny lounges, and savor meals in our dining room. Pamper yourself at the salon and spa, watch movies in the cinema room, or stroll through lush gardens.
Experience comfort, care, and connection at Nazareth House Durban.
Discover Comfort & Community at Nazareth House Port Elizabeth
Looking for a safe, welcoming place to enjoy your senior years? Nazareth House Port Elizabeth offers a variety of one- and two-bedroom cottages, including newly renovated one-bedroom units now available.
Embrace a hassle-free lifestyle in a beautiful, supportive environment where you can age with dignity and comfort.
Are you or an elderly family member looking for independent, assisted living or frail care accommodation? At Nazareth Care our focus is on quality of life. We provide residents with a home where they are valued, loved, cared for and understood.
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Nazareth House Cape Town opened its doors in 1882 when a small group of Sisters arrived from London on the request of the then Bishop of Cape Town. Poverty-stricken communities often abandon or neglect children with special needs and the frail elderly who are dependent on the goodwill of others. Over the past three years, Nazareth House continued to make a major impact on the local communities of the Western Cape by taking care of those most left ignored or abused. Being ostracised by the community because of poverty, age and disability is not a rare occurrence. Our comprehensive approach ensures that we address all levels of Children’s and Elderly development and health, albeit on an intellectual, emotional and/or physical level. Our interventions are both programmatic and systematic in nature as it allows children to live healthy and contributing lives, regardless of their circumstances.
Children's Program
Nazareth House is committed to providing love, nurturing, care and protection for orphans and other vulnerable children. We do this by rendering comprehensive, holistic services to address their physical, psychological, medical, educational, nutritional and social needs as effectively as possible. Nazareth House is registered to accommodate 40 profoundly disabled children from birth to 18 years. Many families disown or abuse their children because their disability is a burden on them or their medical status may be exposed and the family ridiculed because of it. All our young beneficiaries come from previously disadvantaged and impoverished communities.
Nazareth House provides long-term residential care to children ranging from ages 5 years to 18 years who have very special needs and absolutely no other source of care and support. These severely physically and mentally challenged girls, all with variety of disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy, Down’ s syndrome and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, live in a purpose-built, cottage on the grounds of Nazareth House in Vredehoek, Cape Town. Given their very special needs and challenges, they will most likely remain permanently in our care.
The Department of Social Development approached Nazareth House with the request to provide terminal care to children, where no further medical intervention was possible. Normally these children would lie in a hospital ward or institution and pass away within a cold, clinical environment, as their families have either abandoned them, or can no longer care for them.
These children have very particular medical needs, which home-based care cannot alleviate. Our Special Care Unit offers around-the-clock palliative and terminal care to medically vulnerable children living with life-threatening conditions. It is almost impossible for a child to communicate that he/she is in pain when he/she has Spastic Cerebral Palsy with Microphaly and Epilepsy. He/she has no expressive language apart from crying. Some would assume that he/she is just naughty and irritable and may neglect him/her even further. This was the situation of one of the boys in our care who has been suffering for over 9 months with severe bedsores, laying alone in a hospital, unable to contract or flex his knees, elbows and wrists, he could do nothing more than cry nonstop and excessively. We identified his crying as a plea for love and comfort when he was admitted into our care. It did not take long for our dedicated staff to pinpoint all the problems and offer immediate relief. His chronic sores would soon be healed and with the intervention of occupational therapy his positioning was changed so that his sores would not reoccur, and he would be in less pain and experience more comfort.
Dedicated massage treatment to assist with the contraction of his joints, has allowed the smile to reappear on this precious child’ s face again, and if a tear is seen on his cheek, it is one of happiness. The dedicated staff members are not only focused on the wellbeing of the child, but in some cases we are lucky enough to work with the parents so that the child may be reunited with them. Encouraging this little boy's mother to spend as much time as possible with him and learn how to care for him properly, has resulted in him returning home to his family, weighing 2kg heavier and in improved health than when he was admitted.
All the children will still be placed under the children’ s act as this unit is just an extension of our existing work and not an additional program.
Care For The Aged Programme
Compared to childcare, caring for the elderly is not a priority for most donors. However, similarly to orphans the elderly are often also abused and abandoned or have no financial resources. This programme provides full-time care to 74 frail elderly in our residences in Vredehoek and Elsies River. The elderly in our care are without family support and, without exception, suffer from age related conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Parkinson’s and diabetes. They require full-time nursing support. Security, dignity, comfort and peace in the twilight years of life For a frail elderly person without family or finances, life can be a terrifying ordeal. With Government subsidised homes for the aged stretched to the limit, care of these vulnerable elderly people fall onto the shoulders of organisations such as ours.
Our services include:
On-going health monitoring and personal hygiene assistance
Medical and nursing care
Frail care facilities for those who require more specialised care and attention
Comprehensive support services such as physiotherapy and chiropody
Preparation and provision of nutritious meals
Individualised psychological support and counseling according to each residents needs
Charity Shop
Wish List for our Charity Shop:
Volunteers
Towels
Bedding/linen/curtaining
Toys
Baby clothes and accessories
Men’s and ladies clothes and shoes
Bric-a-brac
Kids and teenagers clothing
Furniture, crockery etc
Books, puzzles etc
One man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure!
If you are cleaning out, think of us. Everything from second hand clothing, furniture, kitchenware to bric-a-brac is gratefully accepted at our charity shop – where it is sorted, priced and turned into cash to help fund our homes for the aged.
If you have any unwanted items you’d like to donate, please contact us on +27 (0)21 461 1635, or call in at Nazareth House.
Open Tuesday-Friday from 10:00am-12:00pm and open on the first Saturday of the month 09:30am to 12:00pm.
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