- HIV/AIDS Education
- Our school programme for HIV/AIDS education is a big hit with the children. We mix information with drama and music in a dynamic, fast-moving programme, which involves a lot of interaction with the students.
- 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.
- Limpopo––Reaching Out in the Rural Areas
- We took a trip to the northern province of Limpopo as we had been receiving requests for our programme of HIV/AIDS education from the schools there. One of our part-time volunteers comes from Limpopo, so he was very enthusiastic that we visit his own community.
- Mandela Day
- Nelson Mandela’s birthday is celebrated every year throughout the country but last year it became an official United Nations Day.
- 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.
- Christian Outreach
- Each day our volunteers go out to share the Good News with those from all walks of life brings new tests as well as triumphs. During 2007 we distributed over 120,000 tracts and nearly 9,000 Activated magazines.
- 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.
- Ray of Hope
- There is so much pain and confusion right now in the townships, but we wanted to share a ray of hope which we experienced this month. Our full-time counselor and peer educator, Barbara, had phoned and told us to expect a surprise this Wednesday morning.
- Help for the refugees of xenophobia – June 2008
- During the recent xenophobic attacks, our Sunday Club grew as children joined us from the refugee tents, which were not far from our site.
- Love in Action versus Xenophobia – No competition!
- Instant Playground and Fun Day at the Refugee Camp
A refugee camp was set up in our area to house the victims of the xenophobia attacks that were happening here, and we were first on the scene to help. Surrounded by thick and high barbed wire, the camp is somewhat depressing.
- Thousands of Easter Chicks, Johannesburg
- Easter was suddenly upon us. We had no chocolate eggs to give out, as we usually do, to the children of the township where we work. We have used the eggs to illustrate and help the children to understand and celebrate Easter.
- Sport Against Crime
- Limpopo––Reaching Out in the Rural Areas
On a recent visit to Limpopo we were able to spend time with some of the members of the Sport Against Crime youth group. There are 120 teenagers in the group, and they have been managing with only one football between them for several months!
- More on Steps to Education
- Our Steps to Education project started in 2006. Steps to Education addresses the urgent need in our modern society to reinforce positive values in children, helping educators and parents to take education beyond just academics, providing moral and character-building material for their training.
- 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.
- 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
- Aid to AIDS Sufferers
- Over the past eight years we have had an ongoing project in the Khayelitsha Township. We worked with a community health worker named Mildred and an architect named Mr. Smart who had volunteered his services to help the poor of this community build better housing.
