more birthdays and more fence stolen!

two year old girl, her mother, our house mom and
other children enjoying a game of pass the parcel

we have been able to celebrate two birthday's this weekend, yesterday i celebrated my 44th birthday with maz and arron, they took me for a wonderful birthday lunch at the guardian peak vineyard near stellenbosch and then we enjoyed an evening of cheese and biscuits with our wonderful volunteers....however that wasn't the main party that we had a the village of hope this week!

on friday we were delighted to have a birthday party for one of our newer children, she came to us a few months ago and has been very ill since she has been with us, ending up in hospital with TB meningitis  however it was great to celebrate her second birthday and also welcome her mother, who is also quite sick, to the party. as usual our house mom's and volunteers did an amazing job with lots of party games such as pass the parcel and lots of yummy food.

unfortunately we did suffer another loss of fence and fence posts from around the edge of the property on friday, this is a real pain in the neck and we are wondering what to do to prevent more being stolen. we are trying to make those that steal it realise that they are actually stealing from themselves as we have to spend donated money to replace that which is stolen rather than helping those in need through our two projects (village of hope and thembacare) here in grabouw.