the village of hope seeks to help children infected or affected by hiv, aids and tb in two different ways: we have a 9 bed children's unit to support those infected by hiv and aids and we also run a community-based sports and lifeskills outreach in the informal settlements and squatter camps each afternoon.

this blog has been set up to allow the key members of the team at the village of hope to share their thoughts, photos and experiences as we work in the community of grabouw in south africa

Monday, January 20, 2014

car/s down!

you've heard the common term 'man down', well physically we are all fine but we are having some major issues with our cars here at the village of hope therefore we are 'car/s down'.

it all started when we had a few issues with our audi which has been having some electronic problem for a few months but we needed to get that sorted as a priority, however all of the other cars seem to have come out in sympathy, so that's been in the garage for a week or so now with no sight of return, emma's car then broke down on the way to the hope@cluver concert last weekend as is in a bad way after a radiator leak, there is no sign of that coming home soon, mel's car then had some power steering problems and is in the garage as we speak, today the H1 is in for its normal service which was planned but last night my old bakkie wouldn't start when we took the sports mentors to the football in cape town over the weekend and is in this afternoon to try to find out why that happened!

so that's the audi, emma and mel's private cars, the H1 and the old bakkie all in the garage at the same time and on top of that rob has still to sort his air conditioning unit in his private car which is pumping out hot air instead, the joys of running cars!




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  2. Awww! To have the breakdown strike two cars at the same time is rather unwanted. I guess the only option for those kinds of things is to send them off for repair and just let the repair folks do their job right. I bet it's just some aspect or feature acting up and being wonky. I hope everything is doing well now.

    Jaime Mcgee @ Michael’s Auto Body and Glass

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