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Fr. Babychan has been involved with prison ministry since his arrival in Namibia in 1998. He served as a chaplain in Mariental Hardap prison, Namibia for three months and later when he arrived in Vredendal, South Africa; he worked in Van Rhynsdorp as the Catholic Chaplain for two years. Upon his arrival in Cape Town in 2002, as assistant priest at Matroosfontein, the then archbishop LP Henry requested him to take up prison chaplaincy in the archdiocese. Since then he has been involved with Prison Care and Support Network an organization that is involved in the pastoral outreach to the prisons in the archdiocese. Since 2009 he is a full time prison chaplain and serves as the co-ordinator of Prison Care and Support Network.