Mandela day!

Mandela Day is an annual celebration of Nelson Mandela’s life and a global call to action for people to recognize their individual ability to make an imprint and change the world around them. Everyone gives 67 minutes of their time, whether it’s supporting your chosen charity or serving your local community.

For Mandela day, Parrot Company put up a fence around our vegetable patch at one of our houses, and one of the gardens was cleaned up and we had people coming and playing with the children too!

We would like to thank individuals and companies that came on this day and gave their time to play and interact with our children.

The holidays are almost over and it’s back to school!!!

We can’t believe that the school holidays are over. The children had lots of fun running around! The children start school on Tuesday and they are really looking forward to going back to school.

Sad news:

2 weeks ago we received a little boy with terminal cancer - he came for palliative care and, on Tuesday he passed away quietly while watching TV. We are so grateful that his passing was so quick and peaceful. Please pray for the family during this time of grief.

June birthday!!!

He turned 4

She turned 7

He turned 1

Soccer fever!!!

For the last 10 days our church has been running an amazing programme for the children in the community called League of Champions – we managed to get sponsorships for all the Lambano children.

In the morning the children go to the church and play games and learn Bible verses, then they play soccer for an hour. On Saturdays are the tournaments days and parents are invited to come and watch their children play. The children have had a wonderful time and don’t want to miss any of the games even in this cold weather.

Our future Bafana Bafana team

The girls also enjoy playing soccer

Updates!!!

This little boy from the hospice turned 11 on Sunday! He wanted to go to Spur for his birthday and everything was organised but his condition worsened again and we couldn’t take him. Please continue to pray for him.


Updates:

The little boy that went for an assessment on Saturday last week was also accepted to the special school, he will start school in July!!!

God is good!!!

We’ve been struggling for the past few months to get 4 of our children into school. The two 4 year old boys need to go to a special pre-school because of their physical disabilities but everywhere we went we were told that the schools are full or they did not have the facilities for disabled children.

This week we got some good news – we have found placements for three of our children. The 10 year girl that we wrote about on the 07th of May will start school on Monday in a remedial class that will help her catch up with all she’s missed. The other girl and one of the boys have been accepted at a nursery school that integrates disabled children with normal children (we really like this) they will also start on Monday. The other boy will go for an assessment on Saturday to see if he qualifies to get into a school that specialises in cerebral palsy children.

Thank you all for your prayers!

Thank you!!!

The Lord is good! Last week we sent out an appeal for funds to all our sponsors many people responded. We would like to say thank you for your help and love for our children.

Dental Programme:

Smile of Joy is an NGO that gives each HIV infected and/or affected orphaned child in South Africa the foundation for total oral health.

For the past few weeks we have had a dentist coming to work on some of the hospice children’s teeth that had been identified as needing treatment. Some of the children had to have some teeth extracted, but most of the children were really good. Only one 14 year old refused to open his mouth – he’d seen the tray of instruments and he wasn’t budging!

Raising funds for the church:
McDonalds Mcpastor night - This event is to raise money so that the AWANA children can attend a special Holiday Bible Club based on a soccer theme during the June/July holidays. Most of the Lambano children go to AWANA and they love it.

On the night we took 35 of our children to the Mcpastor night to support the church and give them an outing. We had decided that we could afford an ice-cream cone for each child. However, on arriving there, one of the men took the matter out of our hands and insisted on paying for the ice-creams. Each child received an ice cream cup with strawberry, caramel or chocolate poured over it – what a treat!
We would like to thank the people who helped with the children and those who paid for the ice cream. The children had lots of fun.