the village of hope seeks to help children infected or affected by hiv, aids and tb in two different ways: we have a 9 bed children's unit to support those infected by hiv and aids and we also run a community-based sports and lifeskills outreach in the informal settlements and squatter camps each afternoon.

this blog has been set up to allow the key members of the team at the village of hope to share their thoughts, photos and experiences as we work in the community of grabouw in south africa

Thursday, February 4, 2010

where did our fence go?


in june last year our home at the village of hope was burgled, our laptops and cameras were stolen, included on them was a lot of history from the building work stages and opening days from the children's unit......therefore to prevent further theft we installed a 1000meter x 2meter high fence around the village, mainly to define our land from our neighbours and to let people know that if they crossed the fence they would in fact be trespassing..


...on tuesday afternoon whilst i was showing our new volunteer, harry hogarth from england, around we found that over 70 meters of this fence had been stolen......the thieves stolen the fence but left the poles and the razor wire which sat along the top of the fence.....looking at it they must have come over the river and up the steep bank to steal this....


....as you can imagine this is somewhat frustrating and a little worrying as we had hoped that the fence would offer some protection against theft instead it has itself been stolen!

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