Not much happened this week.

What a long day!! On Monday 3 of us spent the whole day at the hospital with three of our children who had their tonsils removed. All are healing well.

We had a chicken pox outbreak at the hospice and the hospice children have been under quarantine for 21 days and couldn't go to any of the parties/activities or mix with the children from the other homes. Thank the Lord that the quarantine is over and they can now leave the hospice, play with the other children and go to all the parties.

Shopping adventure!!!

Mama Barbara took the two toddlers shopping and as you can see in these photos that boys will be boys! He fell asleep while shopping and obviously as girls we love our shopping.

I’m bored of shopping, can’t we go home

I love shopping

Time to say goodbye!!!

Stephanie from Switzerland

Marie from Germany

For the last 3 months we had 2 volunteers staying with us. Stephanie is from Switzerland and Marie is from Germany. These ladies have been a blessing to us and the children. We’ve been really busy over the last couple of months and they have been a huge help by driving the children to the different schools and therapies and helping with home work and packing our store rooms - this was probably one of the worst jobs for them but they didn’t complain once.

They will be greatly missed!

Winter is nearly over!!!

2 of the toddlers that started swimming!

Winter is nearly over and the children have started their swimming lessons. The 2 toddlers went for the lessons for the first time and they are enjoying every moment of it.

Another school holiday - unscheduled

The school children have been home for a week now because the Teachers’ Unions are all on strike. Whilst most of the teachers at the Wychwood School aren’t striking, there are fears of what the strikers might do to the children if they try to go to school as some of the children who tried to go to school were threatened. We hope that by next week the strike will be over.

Hospice arrival

In the last two weeks we have admitted two nine year olds, both are very sick. One has meningitis and has had to go to hospital to receive specialised IV antibiotics. The course is at least 6 weeks long and the drugs have bad side affects so we had to take a chance and send him to hospital despite the Nurses Unions also being on strike. We could not take him to our usual hospital as the strike there is quite violent, but we got him into another hospital. Hopefully, once he is stable on the medication we will be able to bring him home and continue his treatment here.

Wychwood Fashion show!!!

Our Church had a fashion show on Saturday!!

The Lambano ladies in their traditional outfits.

The children also enjoyed themselves

The catwalk

Posing for the camera :)

The children were treated to an outing at the movies to see Shrek. This was their first 3D movie and they really enjoyed it.

On Saturday we had our first jumble sale. To our surprise many people came and bought the clothes. With the money we got we are able to buy some new clothes for the children. Thank you to all the people that gave clothes and books for this jumble sale.

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.