well after a few weeks of waiting the wonderful book entitled 'footprints in the sand' by wayne shoenfeld arrived in our post box this morning, we spent a good hour pondering over the thought provoking photos and reading the text about the work that we (village of hope and thembacare) are doing here in grabouw and then this afternoon i was able to take a couple of copies of the book out into the community to bless those who appeared in the book with us.
see photos of our security guard and care worker
the guy that provided 'security' for the team has now moved into one of the newly built government homes, his neice once spent some time with us at the village of hope and he is still fully employed as a security guard, however the thembacare worker who features throughout the book isn't doing so well. i was very embarrassed to have bought them a present, which wasn't going to sustain them through this tough period, her husband has not worked for a couple of months and they are waiting on his salary R830 for 4 weeks work which will only come through in 3 weeks time. this care worker had to be laid off from thembacare due to short funding and when i asked what they were eating she said that she had spent her last money on a cabbage and had borrowed R30 for some paraffin to cook over, she had a lot of washing in tubs on the floor of her shack but couldn't wash it as she didn't have any soap powder.....
...i came away feeling really really sorry for her, to be the star of a book and to be living like this is not the way it should be.......we really want to reemploy this amazing lady who lives with the HIV virus but with limited funds we have had to cut back.....it is shocking in a community with such a need we cannot employ enough staff cause of funding....
if you would like to find out more about the book then please visit waynes web page by following this link or have a look at the work that exeko are doing by visiting this page.
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