Fanele

Fanele, one of our Girls from Hospice past away last sunday, somehow unexpected for us. We loved her and we miss her a lot!!!!

Time to say good bye!

It has been a very busy time since the New Year started and a special time for all of us, as 3 Volunteers left, to go back home to their Country.

Devyn who stayed with us since August 2011 went back to America, Sarah who stayed with us since September 2011 went back to Switzerland and Sandra who stayed with us since December 2011 went back to Paraguay.

All of them have been a huge help to us in terms of driving around, cleaning our storerooms, helping the kids with their home work, helping in the Office during Martha is on leave and for all the time they spent with our kids and entertained them during the weekends and holidays.

It was very sad for the kids and all of us to say good bye. But we wish them all the best and may god bless them. And of course we hope they will at least visit us soon again…

If you know of anybody who is interested of being a Volunteer at Lambano – please let us know, extra help is always needed!!!

Back to school!

On the 18^th of January all our kids went back to school.

It was a very special day especially for 5 of our kids:

The 3 who started Grade 6 are now going to a new School. They are attending the classes now a Leicester Road School. We are very excited about this because it’s a really good school and we would not ordinarily be able to afford their fees, but they have agreed for us to pay 50% of the school fees. This is still a lot of money but we feel it’s worth it to raise the level of our children’s skills to prepare them for High School in two year’s time. The children are really enjoying their new school.

They have already started with extra classes in Math, English and Afrikaans.

We also had 2 children start Grade 1. Since the classes at Wychwood are so overcrowded we decided to run Grade 1 our premises. The preschool teacher who has been running our preschool for about 5 years is going to teach them Grade 1. Again Leicester Road School has helped us by giving us the materials and curriculum to do this.

Since their biggest disappointment of not going to “Big School” was the uniform and school bag, we put together a uniform for them to wear every day and gave them school bags just like the older children have. They are very proud to wear their uniform and do their homework after school.