the soup run continues!

collecting the soup from the orchard farmstall

blessing the local creche with the lovely warm soup

people are often willing to get involved in helping those in need but are either unable to spare the time or know who to link up with to enable them to do that...and this was the case when a few years ago i chatted to the owner of a local restaurant as we tried to encourage them to get involved with the local community in a tangible way. they didn't want to give money and couldn't spare the time for a visit to see what we were doing at the village of hope, both via the children's unit or our sports outreach however the way they could do this is by committing to making us up a batch of soup which we would transport into the creche in rooidakke as well as iraq informal settlement each and every friday. this worked well for the last few years however our initial suppliers restaurant is due to close for the winter next week so we were left with a bit of a dilemma.

whilst this isn't really part of our main calling towards those infected or affected by HIV, AIDS and TB it does allow us to be a conduit between those that have and those in need, after a few conversations we have been blessed with the provision of soup from the orchard farmstall who have taken up the batten to supply us with this much needed soup for the foreseeable future, and although all we have to do is deliver the soup from their kitchen to the creches in the community it is a wonderful way to see these people gain an extra nutritional meal which will help with their TB medication.