busy busy busy...

wow i can't believe it was last monday, that's 10 days ago, since i last updated our blog site, having said that it has been crazy crazy busy here and i really haven't had any time to think, let lone create a new post.

so what's been going on i hear you cry.......well the following is a snapshot.

the ukuqala3 team worked long hours into the night to complete the project, some members of the team left at 3.30am one night and others worked through from 8am till 6am (the next day!).

our key sponsor from germany sent a representative to view the project and it was great to show her around the village of hope and other areas of work here in grabouw.

we were also joined by the professor of the architectural faculty in stuttgart, this was his first visit and he was able to see the work that his previous students (ukuqala 1 and 2) had done.

last thursday was a public holiday but there was soooo much work to be completed that both myself, maz, shannon and mel worked tirelessly painting and decorating the new children's unit.

on saturday evening we held our 'unofficial opening' of ukuqala3, with workers, sponsors, volunteers and students enjoying a party like atmosphere, this was an amazing evening and if you would like to see some photos from that evening then please follow this link to the elgin grabouwer facebook page.

there have also been visits from paul cluvers and his daughter who bought some wonderful people to see our project, some friends from sweden visited with a whole group who are on tour, the village of hope was one of their planned highlights before venturing to franschhoek for a wine tour! and we also welcomed on a lady from finland who was visiting the rest of the thembalitsha projects.

and finally we have been able to host our first volunteers into the newly finished ukuqala2 short term accommodation, which still has some work for it to be completed but thank God that flip (yes that's his name) is around to help.

i hope to provide some links to photos etc soon but please bear with us as we seek to get the children's unit habitable but we will post further updates soon, promise!