People of HOPE Cape Town

The HOPE Cape Town Board, Fulltime-Employees and Honorary Members

HOPE Cape Town Association Board Members
The Management of HOPE Cape Town consists of the following members that meet with the HOPE Cape Town staff once a month. The management supervise ongoing projects, negotiate or plan new projects and do fundraising in South Africa and abroad.
 
Dr. Monika Esser

Chairwoman of HOPE Cape Town Association
Dr. Monika Esser is head of the department of immunology of the NHLS and the University of Stellenbosch. Together with Rev. Fr. Stefan Hippler she is a co-founder of HOPE Cape Town Association. Since November 2006 Dr. Esser is the also the chairperson of the management committee.
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Rev. Fr. Stefan Hippler

Board Member
Chairperson of HOPE Cape Town Trust
Member of the management committee of the German HOPE Kapstadt Stiftung
Rev. Fr. Stefan Hippler was chaplain to the German speaking Catholic Community in Cape Town from 1997 to 2009. He brings international experience in the areas of social work and humanitarian issues. He is Vice-chair of the Western Cape Regional Council of the Southern African-German Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Board member of IAM. He is laureate of the Erich Kaestner Award and a Paul Harris Fellow. Together with Dr. Monika Esser, he is co-founder of HOPE Cape Town Association and chaired the management from 2001 - 2006. In 2006 he was elected Chairperson of the Board of Trustees for the HOPE Cape Town Trust.
From October 2009, Hippler works as a "Fidei Donum"-priest for the Catholic Church in Cape Town with the portfolio HIV and AIDS.
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Prof. Mark Cotton

Board Member
Founder of KID CRU Tygerberg
Prof. Cotton was made responsible for the Ithemba Ward in 2001 due to his specialty in paediatrics and triple therapy treatment. He is a one of the specialist in the fields of HIV/AIDS, children and treatment not only in South Africa, but worldwide.
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Prof. Wolfgang Preiser

Board Member
Professor and Head of the Division of Medical Virology at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Stellenbosch since August 2005. He had previously worked as a medical virologist in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and in London, United Kingdom. His special interests are the diagnosis of viral diseases with particular emphasis on HIV, viral infections affecting immunocompromised patients as well as emerging viral diseases. He has for many years followed the development of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and published extensively in the field. He is also one of the authors of several textbook chapters including one on HIV medicine that is available free online.
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Prof. Bernd Rosenkranz

Board Member
Professor Dr. med. Bernd Rosenkranz is Head of the Division of Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch (Tygerberg Hospital). His main research area in the Division of Pharmacology is the drug treatment of HIV and TB patients, especially children. Before the appointment in his current position, he has worked in clinical drug research, mainly in the pharmaceutical industry in Germany, France and the United States.
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Rev. Fr. Wim Lindeque

Board Member
Fr Wim Lindeque is the parish priest of the Catholic Church in Manenberg where he has lived and worked for the last 5 years. He is chairperson of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission in the Archdiocese of Cape Town, as well as a board member of the Prison Care and Support Network. He also works as an assistant chaplain in Pollsmoor prison and assists with the Confirmation training for the German-speaking Catholic community in Cape Town. At present he is working on a Master's degree in Theology through St Augustine's College and hopes to complete his research paper soon. He is delighted to be part of HOPE Cape Town because it reaches effectively into the lives of so many people and brings healing and help where it is most needed.
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Staff at Tygerberg Academic Children's Hospital 
The main offices of HOPE Cape Town are located in Tygerberg Hospital, 25 km outside Cape Town. In Tygerberg, HOPE Cape Town supervises the work at township clinics and hold meetings and training for the HOPE Cape Town Community Health Workers.
 

 

Noëline de Goede

 

Director – HOPE Cape Town Association

 

Noëline joined HOPE Cape Town Association in September 2011 as the Director.  She is responsible for the day to day operation and management of the organisation, its programmes, personnel, finances and governance in liaison with the Board of HOPE Cape Town Association. 
Noëline obtained her Social Work degree in 1996 at Stellenbosch University and has also completed her MAP course at WITS Business School in 2005. Since 1997 she worked within NPO’s and was the National Director of an NPO from 2004 – 2011. She has a wide range of experiences within the NGO sector in South Africa from which HOPE Cape Town can benefit. She has worked within the health, child and family and disability sectors and has a passion for people, especially focussed on empowerment and human rights.

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Dr. Sadeeka Williams 

Medical Officer / "HOPE-Doctor"
Sadeeka Williams is HOPE Cape Town’s fulltime medical officer. She works at the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Clinic and KIDCRU, both based at Tygerberg Hospital . She also assists Pauline Jooste in the training of HOPE Health Care Workers and oversees medical students engaged in the HOPE Cape Town/ KIDCRU elective program.
She obtained her MBChB from the University of Cape Town in 2004 and has since worked in Umlazi in Durban and the communities of Khayelitsha, Retreat and Kraaifontein in Cape Town. She has been with HOPE Cape Town since June 2009.
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Pauline Jooste

Training and Compliance Officer
Pauline Jooste, a senior nurse with extensive experience of 27 years in the hospital and clinic setting, has been with HOPE Cape Town Association since January 2005.  A nursing graduate from Tygerberg Hospital, Pauline is responsible for the training of all HOPE Community Health Workers as well as professional liaison with clinic staff.

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Kerstin Behlau

 

PA to chair & management
Kerstin Behlau welcomes our sponsors and visitors and is always available to respond to enquiries and requests in both, English and German. Kerstin is in charge of the preparation of information documents, proposals and general correspondence. She handles all administrative tasks friendly, competently and timely.
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Sonia Daniels

 Team secretary
Sonia Daniels takes care of our little patients and their mothers or relatives as well as the sisters at the ITHEMBA ward at Tygerberg Hospital, for example she distributes food donations and commodity contributions. Sonia also administers all commodity contributions in our storeroom.
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