saying goodbye....

lauren, jess, kat and ashlyn with some of our
thembacare staff who they have been working with

over the last few months we have been blessed to have the help of a plethora of volunteers who have been working with both the village of hope via our children's unit, sports outreach and rainbow smiles club, but also with our sister project thembacare grabouw.

this afternoon we held our regular wednesday 'church service' at thembacare, which was lead by our wonderful team from midcities in the usa, more of them later in the week, but this was the last 'service' for four of our volunteers, jess, kat, lauren and ashlyn.

we want to thank and honor them for all their hard work, commitment and willingness to give so freely of their time to help those that we seek to support. we will really miss each and everyone of them and whilst some have really got their teeth into their own project, like jess and the support she has been to rejoyce and the other team members at our rainbow smiles HIV support group, or katia with her medical side, the others are invaluable and play a big role in 'just being big sisters' to the children that live here with us and those we work with in the community.

so we say a sad farewell but each of them knows that they will always have a place at the village of hope should our paths cross again in the future.

as per a previous post entitled 'an alternative view' please visit jess' and kats blogs via that link and laurens but clicking on this link