beanies for babies

a visit from huis groenland

the lovely folks from the local home for the elderly, huis groenland, visited the village of hope today and came bearing gifts which they had made for our children who are currently staying with us and also some of those we have successfully placed back into the local community.

the photo shows the children with their new hand knitted beanies, which will bless them as the play outside in the colder winter weather, and we are looking forward to dressing them in their new tracksuits which were also made for them, in the near future. the visit and the time taken to make these clothes was much appreciated and we were also able to enjoy a cake with one of the ladies who was celebrating her birthday today which was nice.

mandela day starts early for the children

the mandela day visitors

this coming wednesday we celebrate nelson mandela's 94th birthday with a nationwide 67 minutes of social action to commemorate the 67 years that nelson gave to fight human rights issues here in south africa.

there will no doubt be many visitors to the village of hope on the official mandela day on wednesday but today the local old age home run by ACVV came up to spend time with our children, they had made up goody bags which contained home made cookies, teddies and jumpers for all of our children.

doing their 67 minutes of social action!

the children had a wonderful morning with our special visitors and we hope that they provided a glimmer of hope for the future of this country to those in their senior years!


thanks for all your hard work ladies and thank you for coming to visit!