Merry Christmas and a great 2010

WE WANT TO WISH YOU ALL A LOVING XMAS AND MAY YOUR HEART BE FILLED WITH PEACE AND JOY FOR THE NEW YEAR

WITH LOTS OF LOVE FROM THOLA IKHAYA

KHUMBULANI, PERFECT & LILIAN

Up date our house Thola Ikhaya "find a home"

We have had some changes in our house. Tessa has left our house and now it´s just Khumbulani, Perfect and me. The plans of taking more boys in the house have changed as well as we financially can not effort it but we help some of the boys (3), we wanted to take in the house, with food parcels ones a month. I also keep a close eye on them. They all passed to their last year. I am very proud of them. Perfect passed with great marks to grade 10 if he continues like this he will become the lawyer he dreams about. For Khumbulani we have a changed plan he will not be going to do his last year at the school he went to, he will be going to study and work at the same time. Perfect has joined a dance company and has been performing a few times now (photo´s included) he realy enjoys it and will continue next year. Khumbulani started a weekend job and also works as a volunteer for an organisation which helps out animals. He works in the Music shop, they sell donated stuff to fundraise money for the organisation. He enjoys it very much as he checks all the electronical stuff that´s delivered before it will be sold. They are very busy even on their holiday. Also for next year they will help me out with the things we want to do for Khulani Simunye. Also for our house Thola Ikhaya it´s going to be a great 2010...With lots of love........

I was invited as a guest speaker for grade 1 at the school our children go to.....Look at the picture!!!!! How cute they look, the future of South Africa.

New year new start

Hi family and friends,

It´s been a longtime you had some news from me....

I would like to tell you some great news. After a few months with a lot of doubts and worries I finally got the answer on the question "Can I stay or not?" YES I will stay for at least one more year !!!!!!! I am getting help from sponsors....... Sponsors for my 5 boys school fees/transport, my teen mom school fees/transport/rent/groserries, food parcels for 3 students and help with the rent for our House "Thola Ikhaya" (Find a home).....I am so happy with all this help, I herewith would like to thank all the sponsors, Susane van Rijn, Stacie Mohagen, Organisation "Thalente", Sonsoles Garcia, Jan-Paul & Rob, Mom and Dad. Also I would like to take the opportunity to thank for all the help I received last year, as you will understand I can not do this without your help!! thank you all so much!!! There is also another change for next year, I will be helping the organisation Khulani Simunye with the field work. As my friend Lizzy is leaving South Africa to have her baby in the Netherlands I will take over some of the work she did. I am very happy with this responsibility. I will continue with all the good work the organisation does. Most important will be helping the community out with getting their birth certificate/ID books. Also I will continue with delivering bread to other organisations which we get from the factory. "Kids in action" will also be one of the activities I will do with lots of pleasure. We also would like to restart with the english lessons and create more workshops for the people from the community to make sure they learn skills which might help them with an income. We have a lot of plans for 2010 and we will still need your support to make it all happen. It´s going to be a great year !!!!!