We have been blessed in the last week by a few of the local Primary Schools: St James Preparatory, Hurlyvale Primary and Leicester Road Primary. The first School donated blankets, the second, groceries and the third gave our staff Coffee Mugs filled with chocolates. Our staff were so surprised and grateful for the gift.

It’s the last day of School today and trying to organise a Schedule for our children for the School Holidays is a mission! The children have so much to do these holidays, including a Holiday Bible Club for the first week. St Andrew’s School is organising a function on the 16^th of July for Lambano and they’ve asked our children to perform a dance. The children are practising really hard for this big performance - Lindsey the choreographer is working really hard with them!

Winter blessings!!!

Our children were blessed by the Life Roseacres Clinic’s Sizanani Project with blankets - my office was packed! Each child received their own blanket. Thank you for blessing our children with such a lovely gift!

Office packed with blankets

The Roseacre's staff with some of the hospice children

What a day!

Elyse - our new volunteer from Ameraica

On Tuesday we had 4 different appointments in different hospitals and, to top it all, Jenna - our Hospice manager was sick, so Elyse (a new volunteer) and I had the privilege of taking two of our children to the occupational therapy appointment at Baragwanath Hospital and Sibylle had to take another girl from the Hospice to a diabetic clinic in Boksburg. In the afternoon Elyse and Sfiso took another boy to the Johannesburg Hospital for a follow up at the Burns unit.

The two children that Elyse and I took for the appointment received splints and I was told that the boy has to have occupational therapy every day. This boy is 13 years old and he had a fungal infection on his left pointy finger (amongst many other problems). Some of the things that he has to do is learn to wash and dress himself, to pull his damaged finger back and hold it for a count of five. While they were showing me all this I saw how he struggled with every activity and this made me realise how much I take for granted, even knowing how to type this blog with all my fingers. I was saddened when I saw how this boy struggled with even these simple tasks.

Another Goodbye!!

Every time when the volunteer leaves we ask ourselves how we ever coped without them. They drive our special needs children to their schools and therapies, help with the hospital visits, do homework and therapies with the children – what a tremendous help they are. That’s why we are so grateful for each and every volunteer.

On Wednesday we said goodbye to Rachel who has been with us since January.

When Rachel came, she was really quiet and we thought the children would make toast of her but to our amazement Rachel handled the children very well, she was strict but loving. Thank you Rachel for all your hard work, you will be solely missed!

Rachel with some of the children

The guys working hard

Last week we were blessed by Distell Company making a vegetable garden at 82 McAlpine. It’s really encouraging to see people taking time out of their busy schedules to come and spend time working to make our homes look good. Thank you Distell for all your hard work!!

May Birthdays!!

Our little madam turned 3

He turned 12