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Thank you from Baphumelele

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The past week the Trust received a very nice thank you letter from the Baphumelele Educare Centre. Receiving this means a lot to us. It is what we do it for!

Dear Di Thomas and Friends,

I, Rosie Mashale, the staff and management from Baphumelele Children’s Home Khayelitsha Cape Town, is hereby writing this letter to thank you for your kind donation. We truly acknowledge the endowment of food you bought for the Christmas Party for the Baphumelele Children’s Home. Your contribution definitely made a big deference. We thank you very much and my God’s richest Blessings be with you all in every area of your work. May you also have a great and prosperous new year!

Your contribution helped to save young, innocent children, whose lives have all been impacted by the HIV/Aids pandemic rampaging in our country – they are orphans or they have been abandoned by dying parents, they have been dumped as little babies or they are HIV-positive themselves. One way or another, they have all already experienced death, disease, abuse, neglect and hunger in their still so young lives.

It is people like you, who help to give them back their childhood, their smiles, their trust in life and a future. We are very grateful for your support and we hope that you will continue the support even years to come because Baphumelele is running five programmes and staffed with 69 people which means there is a long way to come for you to help.

All the best

Rosalia Mashale
Managing Director

Table Mountain Realize(d)

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

On Sunday the 25th of November the TCD Trust took 45 children from Baphumelele Orphanage up Table Mountain.
The weather was great and all the children were very excited.
At 8h30am a bus, booked and paid for by REALIZE Events, came to pick up the children and brought them to Table Mountain.
At the mountain a group of 20 people from the UK accompanied and they did a great job assisting and taking care of the children.
The group also worked at Baphumelele the weekend and constructed a wall.
Many thanks to everybody for that, you all did a great job!

After the visit to Table Mountain we went to the Camps Bay beach.
There we played cricket, football, tennis and had a refreshing swim.
The tour group from the UK arranged a lunch for all the children which everybody enjoyed very much.
On our way back to Baphumelele all the children where sleeping, the end of a great day full of excitement!

Thank you to REALIZE Events, Table Mountain and the tour group from the UK! You all helped us realize this day!

New Wall Constructed at Baphumelele Children’s Home

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

The TCD Trust recently funded and arranged a group of volunteers to assist with building a much-needed wall at the Baphumelele Children’s Home recently. Rosie, Managing Director at Baphumelele sent us the following heart-felt thank you letter.

Rosie – its always a pleasure assisting you and your hard-working assistants!

To the volunteers – thank you for your time and effort!

Dear Di,

We thank you very much for your recent projects at our children’s home. We ac-knowledge the very kind donation of the wall for safety. This is going to enable us to create a recreational space for the older children to enjoy. They will love having a space to practice their soccer as they are working hard in their soccer league.

In addition, the creche children greatly benefited from the activity and positive stimulation from the structured activities. Thank you for recruiting brave volun-teers to interact with so many children at once!

As for the boat trip, it was truly a special outing for both the children and the staff. They are still all talking about the Spur food they enjoyed!

All these efforts you have made help us to save young, innocent children, whose lives have all been impacted by the HIV/Aids pandemic rampaging in our country -they are orphans or they have been abandoned by dying parents, they have been dumped as little babies or they are HIV-positive themselves. One way or another, they have all already experienced death, disease, abuse, neglect and hunger in their still so young lives.

It is people like you, who help to give them back their childhood, their smiles, their trust in life and a future. We are very grateful for your support.

Kind regards,
Rosie Mashale

Managing Director
BAPHUMELELE CHILDREN’S HOME

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

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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