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, July 29, 2010

USA teams racing around!


over the last couple of weeks we have been blessed by the visit of two teams from the USA who have returned to work with us at the village of hope and the wider thembalitsha projects in grabouw. i will post more about the amazing team from augusta in another post but this one will try to capture the work that tim berger and his team did during their 10 day visit to our project.

well where can one start, i suppose the most amazing news is that we now have a fully fledged race track, see photo, where our older children can enjoy riding their small bikes around and around and around, it is a real hit.

other than that they installed a much needed carport/wood store for the volunteers unit, they helped cut and shift wood along with our longer term volunteer tyler and they blessed sister thandi at thembacare by completing some much needed repairs and repainted the whole of the in patient lounge which now looks fantastic.

they also blessed the children in our unit, helped out at our sports outreach clubs and made home visits with the thembacare home based care team....we want to thank them for their wonderful support, love and care and we will miss them, come back soon guys!

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