Swaziland: Help 50 orphans become future leaders

In a little over a year you have contributed more than $50,000 to New Hope Centre. Your contributions have been the life blood to this home of refuge for the fifty orphans of Swaziland sheltered within our walls. We are more than an orphanage; we are a family. Each child has been given a new name, a family name: Abraham. They have a sense of belonging and community and think of each other as brothers and sisters. Within this family they have developed an identity and have been given the hope for bright futures.

With your help we have provided the infrastructure for these children to pursue their individual gifting and dreams. Some are clearly equipped to go on to professional careers. One of our older kids has been accepted into a school where she will direct her education toward becoming a medical doctor. She has felt called toward this path for several years and now is on track to actually begin working toward a degree.

Within the past month one of our sponsors has given another student all of the fees necessary for him to begin training toward his commercial pilot’s license. He has already attained his civil aviation security pass. This was an incredible boost to his possibilities that would not have been possible without the support of people like you.

Some of our kids will take their places in the agricultural and farming industries within our country. One of our older students has attended a training center where he will learn how to manage chickens. He will be able to come back to New Hope Centre and apply those skills toward helping us to become more self-supporting as well. When he reaches adulthood he will be able to go out and run his own business. Along these same lines it is our goal to create a dairy industry here at New Hope Centre, both for the purpose of creating a stream of income and as a training tool for practical skills. You may hear from us regarding this project later.

We continue to educate the children in the history and culture of their surroundings. Recently, one of our students was able to travel to Table Mountain and Robyn Island where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years of his life. When she returned we had the opportunity to discuss the implications of this powerful role model for our kids. One of our girls has a strong desire to work with the victims of human trafficking. She was given the marvelous opportunity to go to Cambodia and learn from a center that has been successful in retraining women into other skills.

The students continue to pursue sports and fine arts as they remain in training for swimming competitions, dance, piano and other instrumental lesions. We recently obtained the funds to get our own swimming pool functional and received a donation of Fast Track equipment that allows our swimmers to train right here at home. The skills they are learning in their chosen disciplines do not go to waste. All of our students have rich opportunities to share theses skills by performing for others and providing the inspiration that it is possible to overcome the adversity that has darkened this land. They have become beacons of light to hundreds of other kids throughout our nation that they, too, can be survivors, overcomers and conquerors.

Thank you, once again, for believing in New Hope Centre. Thank you for continuing to provide the sustenance that gives life to the goals we laid out to you in this project. Of course, this includes the basics of providing love, nurturing relationships, safety, on-site education, life-disciplines, food, clothing and shelter. These necessities of life provide the springboard for all of the enrichment we’ve shared with you in this update. Without this, without you, we could not continue. Our needs are on-going; we are so grateful that your generosity is as well.

We pray that you will receive a hundred fold blessing from what you have invested this year into the lives of these precious children.

With gratitude,

Cherry Brandstater

Project Coordinator

Links:

• New Hope Centre Website