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Baphumele Educare Centre

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Dear Friends of Baphumelele,
I am delighted to invite you to a gala event to be held in Cape Town on Thursday,10 May to thank our friends and supporters for all the great work that has been achieved over the past years, and to raise awareness of the ongoing needs of
Baphumelele.

On the same day, I am also pleased to invite you to visit the Baphumelele organisation so that you can see for yourself the progress that has been made, and to meet the children and young adults who benefit so much from your support.

You can find further details of the visit and the gala event in the attached invitation. Please send your RSVP to lauramillion@gmail.com by Monday, 23 April. I look forward to seeing many of you on 10 May for a celebration of Baphumelele.

My grateful thanks to you all as always,
Rosie Mashale

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Baphumele Educare Centre

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Dear TCD trust,

I wanted to write and tell you about the progress that we have made at the Baphumelele Educare center since the incredible renovations that you have done.

For a long time we had wanted to improve the stimulation and education that was occurring there. We could not even attempt this intervention until the building was in much better repair. Thanks to your hard work, our dream has become a reality when we opened up two Grade R classes this February. We were able to beautifully equip these rooms since your renovation was completed. They have blackboards and many stimulating developmental toys. The teachers are being further trained. The children’s faces shine with enthusiasm and purpose each day as they learn.

It is our hope that we will have further groups to do the same for the classrooms downstairs. We want this education to begin well before these children turn five years.

Again, THANK YOU for getting the ball rolling on this project. We could never have achieved this next milestone without your renovation. We are working hard to build upon the generous support that you have offered.

Many thanks,

Erin Brovet

Volunteer Coordinator

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A heartfelt “thank you” from Rosie

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

The trust recently received the following heart-warming letter from Rosie Mashale, the lady that runs the Baphumele creche, edu-care centre and respite centre.

Dear Di,

Thank you again and for everything you have done for us at Baphumelele all these years.

You have taken care for the creche,help to build the Respite Care and for always helping with buying the food for all the children at Christmas. It has been more than three years now. We all at Baphumelele highly appreciate, and hope that our relationship with you and your company will last longer.


We would like to invite you, Tessa and Johan to come and see the building before we could open it official, it must be between now in January and February so that we can make plans.

Dear Di, I don’t know what to say but really thank you again and again.

Thank you,
Rosie Mashale

We are very proud of all of your hard work too Rosie – Thank You!

Andre & the TCD Trust trustees

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Photos of Building Progress at Baphumelele

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Photos before building begins…

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Photos taken shortly after construction started…

Make a difference

Many travellers, while visiting the Townships and seeing the need that exists all around, express the desire to make a contribution of some kind. In keeping with our policy of providing a “hand-up” rather than a “hand-out”, we ask you not to hand out money to the local residents, but rather to make a contribution to the Trust, which will help us to make the improvements required and ensure that your contribution
is put to lasting use in the community.

If you would like to make a contribution please deposit funds into the TCDT bank account and fax the deposit slip to (021) 5114768 with CRECHE FUND and your name clearly marked as a reference and an e-mail address if you have one, or contact us.

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The Next Project – Baphumelele Children’s Home and Educare Centre in Khayelitsha

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The Trust has recently aligned itself with the Baphumelele Children’s Home and Educare centre in Khayelitsha. This pre-school and creche was started by a remarkable compassionate woman called Rosie Mashale. With donations from local and international donors a school was built which currently absorbs approximately 250 children from the community of Khyaletisha. Approximately 35 of these children come from the Baphumelele Children’s Home which was also started by Rosie – this Home provides a safe haven and loving home for abandoned, ill and abused children.

At this stage the parents pay meagre R85 a month and these fees are used to cover the salaries of the 21 teacher/aids; food (breakfast, lunch and tea are provided) and general upkeep of the centre. However, there are always a shortage of funds and certainly never any funds to buy equipment that the school desperately needs. The school requires educational puzzles, books, games, building toys, and art equipment.

Other projects that we are looking to undertake at Baphumelele include:

  • Replacing broken toilets
  • Fixing leaking roofs and/or damp walls
  • Fitting lights in dark & gloomy areas
  • Building new sleeping quarters in some areas of the children’s home
  • Painting the interior & exterior of some rooms/buildings
  • tiling some floor/wall areas
  • Providing furniture and equipment as needed
  • Arranging outings for the children
  • Possibly procuring the land behinde the edcuare centre and building a library on it
  • Creating a ‘sponsor-a-child’ campaign for the children’s home via our website

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Artist’s impression of the Educare Centre.

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