Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Talking to Samantha and Anouk

 Anouk and Samantha Skyped with me this morning. They will be with us soon as interns at our playgroup.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Training of children in mindmapping.

A big number of children were motivated to study and then trained in mindmapping with a lecturer from Varsity college. I was so amased at the good behaviour of the Motherwell children. We had children from Thansanqa, from the social worker's caseload and from our soccer team.
They took activekly partin the discussions, work hard and enthusiastically in the groups. She took them akong with her on a lovely journey. She motivated the girls by using a coloured singer, Ella Fitsgerald as
example and a soccer player, KAKA and that was just right up their sleeves.
Each child received a lunch and a drink
I posted two photos

Children at work at the training on Saturday

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Boy's house

 Look at the lovely glass that Toon put into the door to give more light to the diningroom where the boys will be studying The dining/study room is the old lounge that was so small. Thank you Thamsanqa for the beautiful table and chairs.
Thank you for everybody who helped to bring the boys house on par with the other houses. We are thrilled and the boys and their mother Nosi are very happy.
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 Finally the boys house is completed. It is such a lovely home now. Marian and Josina I hope that you are very happy with what you see. A big thank you to you two and everybody else who helped make this house so beautiful I have mentioned the other people already in this blog. Toon spend so many hours repairing ... Thanks
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Nadine and Evelien who stands here with the old mattrass taken off the eds have today bought a new stove for Lulama's House at Game. I think Lulama and the children are in their seventh heaven. It was quite a mission. The plug oif the first stove they bought did not work. So they took the stove in the Volksie return it from where it was bought, went to Game(or MACRO) and bought a brand new stove. Then they had problems to pay with their Dutch cards. But it is done.
Our houses are in such good shape at the moment. Thank you Nadine and Evelien.
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Girl-child training Louise talking.
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Tia Louise and Sarah with the Thamsanqa girls after they sang their beautiful songs.


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Here Louise is talking to the group at the girl-child training on

what boys dont know about girls, they dont know what it is to wear silk stockings, and many other things and then she said about being pregnant and gave a wonderful sex talk to them
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These beautiful girls are the bigger girls from Thamsanqa. Except for one, these girls are now with us for 6 years from when we started. I talked to them today about time management and also gave a bit of a motivational speech on why should I study.
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It is Sunday afternoon 4 March and we did some girlchild training. We started with Lunch - KFC and Coke. The chikldren from Lulama's House with a few smaller ones from Cynthia's house opened with a few lovely dances. Then I gave a talk on Time management and a motivational speech. After that 10 of the girlchild children dance. Then Louise gave a talk on what boys dont know about girls. It was very inspiring and fun. After that some of the girl child children danced. They looked and danced beautiful. Then it was Sarah with a story, t some encouragement from Ntombekaya. The bigger Thamsanqa girls sang a few beautiful songs. Mhimhi and Delsie said thank you and a girlchild girl closed with prayer
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Jeanne did a wonderful job with our task record cards. She taught Simphiwe how to do it in future. She was really wonderful in helping us.
I am now looking for photos of Samantha and her mother to put oin our blog. They did such a lot Next time you will read about them.
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And beautiful new cupboards for Lulama's House kitchen. Toon repaired many beds in many of the houses.
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Toon was our hero for five weeks. He fixed the ceiling at the boys, put new doors on, put new shelves up in the kitchen, put a glass in the front door, put curtain rails up and the boy's house is as good as new. We are so thankful.
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Matrasses for the Boy's House


These two lovely volunteers donated 5 new matrasses to the boy's house
They also bought beautiful curtains and many other things. I wanted to put many other
photos here but only know how to put one photo per page
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