What a week!!!

I came back from leave on Tuesday and the first thing I was asked to do was take the children shopping! The daughter of one of our donors decided she and her friends wanted to do a fundraiser for Lambano and another charity and organised a fashion show for us. As part of this they found people to sponsor R350 per child so that all of them could have a new set of clothing. The children were allowed to choose whatever they wanted and, on the whole, they came back with beautiful clothes although we did see a few strange outfits J. We couldn’t take all 30 children to the shops at one time so we had to take them in groups which took the whole morning, but the children had so much fun!!! Thank you Alexi, Emma and Jade for making this possible (thanks too to the parents who also put in a lot of effort!)

As if that was not enough shopping, we also had to buy clothes for the 10 children that are performing on Saturday, so on Wednesday and Thursday Elyse and I were back at the shops trying to find the right clothes. This proved to be very difficult as the children range widely in age and size so finding the same outfit for all 10 children was very difficult but by God’s grace everything is in order now and we were able to find white T–shirts, Takkies (for my American readers that’s sneakers) and blue jeans for all the Dancers. Thank you Lord!

Update on the fashion show:

If you have been following our blog you have read from the previous posts that the children are working hard on rehearsing a dance that will form part of the fashion show. This week they had a number of extra rehearsals. Saturday will be a long day for the Dancers as they have to be at the venue at 12:00 for the concert which starts at 14:00, but the dancers are excited at being there the whole day!

We will post the photos of the children’s dance next week!