Latest News:

13-Mar-2017

Latest News: March 2017


Well, the good news here is that we made up for more than the R4000 per month that we had recently lost. Thanks be to God for hearing our prayers and to all of you for your extra contributions, and a special welcome to the new people that started making donations! In fact one of our HfC directors has challenged me now to try and attract some more donations so that we can sponsor an extra house with children. Would that not be great? Can I count on your assistance again? We include two stickers for you giving you Heart for Children’s contact & banking details. My thinking is that if all new donors (and maybe the old donors as well) can ask one of their friends to also consider making a regular monthly contribution, we should definitely be able to make it to sponsoring another house. Please show again your heart for children! Any monthly contribution a person can make, no matter how small, will be much appreciated. Remember, all donations made to Heart for Children are tax deductible. We include the annual relevant tax certificate for all our donors with this newsletter. Please keep this for when you do your tax return later in the year. Please ask us (!!) for any tax certificate that you did not receive or that you lost. From us: lots of love, hugs and kisses.

We were impressed by the work that is being done by Victory4All for handicapped children at the special needs school in Humansdorp. From the last time that we had been here, the school had expanded enormously and now had many more classes and pupils. Johan has plans for more schools and pre-schools and we were shown a building in progress that would become the school hall for the special school with handicapped children. We visited the four foster homes in Humansdorp and four homes in Jeffrey’s Bay that get support from Heart for Children. We were also impressed with Machrista who is the social worker and who accompanied us. The houses were on the whole orderly run and organised. We could see that Machrista has a special heart for each of the children. Only one house was found without children but this was known beforehand. The house was occupied by older children of whom two had left the home to study outside. The other children were absent at the time. It was understood that action is being undertaken by Victory4All to bring more children into this home. Victory4All also plans to run the houses similar to the Home from Home model, namely one paid foster mother with up to six children per home, as indeed was already evident in most of the 8 homes run by Victory4all. Husbands of the mothers in the foster parenting situation often seem to create some special problems in the homes, making the work of the social worker a bit more complicated.

During the board meeting, Johan offered to become more active for Heart for Children and he will become our liaison for potential new donors, both personal and corporate.

Just a reminder: Your donations to Heart for Children are tax deductable! If you do not do so already, would you please consider helping us to help more children? We are distressed to see the increase in the number of orphaned and abandoned children in South Africa. Your regular monthly donation enables us to support more foster homes. For those this year that have made contributions to Heart for Children: we have included the certificate with this newslette