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World Doctors Orchestra (WDO) – Charity Concerts in South Africa

70 top medical doctors from over 30 nations exchange their white coats for evening attire and perform benefit concerts in Cape Town, Elandsdoorn and Johannesburg for people in need of healthcare in South Africa.

34 children of the Ndlovu Youth Choir will join them

As special guest the Ndlovu Youth Choir performs among others traditional South African music. The choristers hail from Elandsdoorn and the surrounding Dennilton townships.

The highlight both for the orchestra and the community of Elandsdoorn is going to be the concert at The Miracle Theatre, which is the first theatre that has been established in a township. In co-operation with the famous and well known Johannesburg International Mozart Festival the WDO’s South Africa tour ends at Linder Auditorium’s Concert Hall, in Johannesburg.

The proceeds from the concert will go to the Hugo Tempelman Foundation which in turn supports the Ndlovu Care Group providing medical and social care for people suffering from HIV/AIDS in Elandsdoorn near Johannesburg and elsewhere. Since 2008, the orchestra, which was founded in 2007, has been assisting the Hugo Tempelman Foundation and the Ndlovu Care Group. Both organizations are not only supporting public health in South Africa, they also focus on holistic and sustainable development in a healthy living environment.

Ndlovu Care Group is an innovative, multi award winning community development group that has been operating in rural areas in South Africa since 1994.  

It is the Ndlovu Care Group dream to replicate their Rural model for Community Health and Development to other rural areas in South Africa that lack access to quality healthcare and sustainable community upliftment in cooperation with National Governmental Departments. We strive towards sustainable upliftment through community mobilisation.

The group initiated the development of the model in 1994 in the Elandsdoorn Township, Limpopo Province and aligned their objectives with the Millennium Development Goals, to assure validity and applicability in the broader context of poverty relief. The second site opened in 2007 in Lillydale, Mpumalanga, proving that replication is possible, economically viable and successful. The third site has just been completed.

The foundation of the replication is built on partnerships. Partnerships are based on cooperation between Government, Corporate Social Responsibility Programs, a wide range of international donors, the public sector involvement and the Ndlovu Care Group.

The Ndlovu model divides operational activities into two broad groups: Community Health Care and Community Development Programs. The impressive  Ndlovu site boasts amongst others an excellent clinic that includes on site dedicated HIV monitoring laboratory, a maternity hospital, digitalized X-ray, IT infra structure, sports grounds with gymnasium and disabled sports facilities, amphitheatre with music academy, nutritional units with pre-schools, water and waste projects and numerous entrepreneurial efforts.

Charity concerts

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 8 pm, Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town

Saturday, February 11, 2012, 4 pm, The Miracle Theatre, Elandsdoorn

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 6 pm, Linder Auditorium, Johannesburg

Ticket prices range from R 90 to R 120. Discount for students and senior citizen are available. Block bookings are also available. The entry is free at Mircale Theatre.

Book for World Doctors Orchestra (Cape Town and Johannesburg) is through Computicket on Tel: 0861 915 8000 and on-line at www.computicket.co.za.

Conductor: Stefan Willich

Soloist: Maria du Toit, Clarinet

Ndlovu Youth Choir, director: Ralf Schmitt (Johannesburg and Elandsdoorn)