Support 80 abandoned children in Cape Town

Reaching out to make a difference.  It starts with you and me thank you for your donation which enables us to make a difference to the lives of abandoned children.  To love them and care for them is the easy part they have this amazing ability to creep into your heart and to bring joy to everyday.  Happy children , smiling children is a good sign when you have this enormous responsibility to let the children know that they are important and that they are special.  It takes hard work, strategic thinking and planning with the assistance of care workers, social worker, manager , administrator , the drivers , the cleaning to get the children through the day. WE are 28 staff in total which includes myself as the Director of the project.  Every day without fail as we open our eyes we acknowledge the new day and we welcome the sunshine, the rain, the wind, the clouds we have breakfast together and our day then starts with the educational program from 9-00 till 12-30 .  Each child receives a book with their own personal profile this is pasted into their books and when they leave and are re-unified with family or foster families they take their memories with them.  This is also a good way for us to monitor their progress and to show them when they arrived and what they were not able to do and what they have achieved. The older children are enjoying the life skills program which we equip them with for better choices, improving their relationships with each other and to deal with their own personal stories in a better way.  Many of the older children don’t understand why they have been neglected, abandoned, removed from their homes and we have to affirm them all of the time.  Our older children as they understand their situations we are beginning to see behaviour change and we have now arranged for counselling sessions for them with an off site service provider.  WE have our own internal support group sessions with them on a bi-weekly schedule and they love having these sessions as they listen to the stories of their peers they realise they are not the only ones experiencing these feelings and emotions.  Thank you for assisting us to make a difference to the lives of the children.