- Mandela Day
- Nelson Mandela’s birthday is celebrated every year throughout the country but last year it became an official United Nations Day.
- HIV programs
- A team of our volunteers travelled to Phalaborwa in Limpopo to conduct HIV/AIDS programs for rural schools, where they were very well received. We received thank you letters with the following comments:
“Our learners have received several workshops and lectures on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
- Food Distribution
- Through sponsorship from the Lion’s Club, Durbanville, we received over ten tons of rice, samp (cornmeal mush), beans, and split peas to distribute. Volunteers helped unload this massive amount of food and piled it high on 16 palettes.
- Mother and Baby Support Group Highlights
- Micro Businesses Bring Economic Empowerment
We received sponsorship to initiate micro businesses for the members of our Mother’s Club for HIV positive women and their babies. We supplied the women with products of their choice to the value of R1,000 each.
- Mother and Baby Support Group
- Through this project we support a total of 19 HIV-positive mothers and their babies.
- Project Hope
- Project Hope currently administers the following programmes:
HIV/AIDS counseling
Bible-based education that promotes lifestyle changes that help in HIV/AIDS infection prevention
HIV/AIDS awareness seminars
Counseling
Conflict resolution
Collecting and distributing nutritional
- Helping Hand, Cape Town - 2007 Statistics
- (Email: helpinghand@telkomsa.net; Tel: 072 4437846)
We were able to locally collect and distribute ZAR 3,191,584 worth of goods during 2007 (approximately 280,000 euros).
- Carpet a Creche Campaign, Diepsloot
- Every year we work to upgrade the crèches (childcare facility) in Diepsloot in some way. Most of the babies and toddlers take their naps during the day on cement floors, often with just a thin blanket underneath them. Most crèches have very little carpet.
- The Three Desert Team
- A team of some of our teenagers and young volunteers embarked on a trip through the arid landscape of three deserts: the Karoo, the Namib, and the Kalahari, with a mission to make a difference in the lives of other young people.
- Combating Disease and Starvation
- After spending 2004 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), carrying out humanitarian projects and sharing the message of God’s love in Jesus, escalating violence in the country’s ongoing civil war forced us out. Recently, four of us returned for six weeks.
- All in a Day
- Lesotho Academy of Arts is a school that we visit and help on our mission trips to Lesotho. When we arrived this month, the staff was quite discouraged. They had no gas for cooking, little paraffin for heating, no phone, almost no electricity, and no food!
- Blankets and warm clothes for over 200 children
- The winter had been particularly cold and we wanted to give all our Sunday school children something to keep them warm, many who attend barefoot and with ragged clothes. We identified the neediest children and gave out 15 warm, fleecy blankets. The next week we gave out fifty more, one to a family.
- Showers of Blessings
- It had been an unusually cold and wet week. In fact, half of our team was stuck in Durban due to snow on the mountain pass between there and home. (This is Africa!
