Lifeskills for 2,587 Children in South Africa

Dear All,

we are starting to spread further a field with confidence know that the projects we are running back in Tzaneen are continuing in a proper manner. We are able to mover further afield through a new partnership with the Japanese Volunteer Centre. This partnership is taking us to Elim about 1hours drive North of our present position. It is exciting because after spending two days with the 3 Drop In Centres they are fired up and excited about working together and so are their children.

We are also spreading to Acornhoek, Hoedspruit and Haenetzburg during this season. Our foot print is getting bigger and bigger within Limpopo. We are not waiting for the franchise finances to come in, we are stepping out. If it has been a while please consider donating once again to us. We are seeing near enough 3,000 children a week now. We need your ongoing support.

We will start a Journey of Life training which teaches adults about the pitfalls children have to negotiate when growing up. To us this is common knowledge but because of poor education, migrant labour issues, working away from home many parents do not have the basic parenting skills that we take for granted. This training often causes the participants to look back over their own lives and re-evaluate their own issues, this can be very confronting at times as well.

Then we will introduce all the staff to KTD196's children's program which is particularly effective in the rural areas. So by the end of the year we should have trained the staff extensively, followed up on their training with monthly visits plus worked with their parents. Its great to see our replication happening already in another desperately needy area.

You may or may not know but we have added a second project to Global Giving, we are desperate to own a farm for a variety of different reasons but predominantly so we can continue running our camps on a weekly basis which are currently limited to the winter school holidays due to access to a venue. Secondly, for 12 years we have been operating out of my home, now we reached maximum capacity and we need a proper office space and training venue of our own. Please consider partnering with us on this endeavour. All you need to go is go to Global Giving and enter Keep The Dream196 and both of our projects will come up.

We also have had the privilidge to be on international television this last month. If you missed it please go to YouTube on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjxb2aUF94  or go to http://keepthedream196.com and look for the youtube icon. If you have any comments please dont hesitate to leave me a message on our website under subscribe.

Thank you all once again for your ongoing support. You are making this possible.

Take care all

Louise Batty

Being a scout has had a huge impact on my life because it changed the way I think, the way I look at people and the way I look at myself. Being a Scout is not about what you do when you are with other Scouts but it becomes part of your lifestyle.

Joining Scouts is a decision that one makes because you want to change for the good. Scouts changes us in different ways: firstly, you gain confidence. Secondly, you learn how to interact with different people and thirdly you can discover your abilities.

Thank you to KTD196 for bringing Scouts to our area. Join Keep The Dream196 and your life will change forever.

Khanyisa 1st Shiluvane Rover

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