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Dear Friends of the TCD Trust,

First I would like to introduce myself. I am Carlijn Smeets, 20 years old and I come from The Netherlands. In The Netherlands I study Commercial Management at the Zuyd University in Sittard. I choose Marketing, Communication and Social media as my specialty. I am doing an internship in South Africa for 6 months now, I arrived in August and I will stay till the end of January. I started my internship at Ashanti Lodge in Cape Town. Lisa Krohn, owner of Ashanti Lodge, is one of the four trustees of TCD Trust. When I heard of all the great projects TCD Trust is doing, I was very excited when I got the chance to work for TCD Trust. I will help Bronwen Wetton, the manager, with all the social media activities like facebook, blogging, newsletter and online marketing. Besides that, I will also visit the projects to get a clear idea of what the impact is for the community. I am very impressed of what the TCD Trust can mean for these communities. I have already visited the RGG Creche in Philippi and the Library in Hanover Park.

Every Tuesday I will be working with Bronwen Wetton for the TCD Trust. I am very glad I got the chance to work with Bronwen, she is a very nice lady and I learn a lot form her about South Africa. She has given me the chance to be involved in the projects and mean something for TCD Trust. And because I am a social media student, please go to our Facebook page and ‘ like’ it. This is a good way to stay updated with all the good things the TCD Trust is doing

Thanks,
Carlijn

On the 3 September the TCD Trust held our second annual fundraiser at the Mount Nelson Hotel. We raised close to R130 000.00 in one night! Funds raised on the evening will go towards building a proper wendy house structure for RGG crèche in Philippi, Cape Town, replacing their leaking shack. This will change the lives of these incredible woman who have worked so hard to establish this crèche and the wendy house structure is their final hurdle to cross. We thank the Mount Nelson Hotel who sponsored the venue, meal and wine on the evening, our guests who supported us, our sponsors who provided prizes for our raffle and auction, without you this would not have been possible.

Our MC, Vernon Kirsten entertains the crowd and helped us to raise R58 700.00 on our auction !

Di Thomas, TCD Trust Trustee, and her son, Ricky, cycled across South Africa in the middle of winter in the Freedom Challenge. They raised R30 100.00 for GCU Soccer Academy to buy football equipment for the club. Pictured here is Mario from GCU receiving the cheque from Di & Ricky.

Thobekile and two of the teachers from RGG crèche performed two of her own compositions of music and poetry on the evening which was so brilliant that there was complete silence in the room as everyone listened to the music and thought provoking lyrics.

And then the party ROCKED !

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Next year make sure you book early if you also want to be part of the fun.

We thank you so much for your support of our fundraiser and the work we do at the TCD Trust. These sort of evenings reflect the incredible things that can be achieved by working together and bringing real, meaningful and long lasting change to people’s lives in South Africa.

For more pictures and news please go to our Facebook page, simply like the page and you will get all our news as it happens.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/TCD-Trust/210082605676148

Ilanga Travel has been in operation since 1989, a company which has grown from strength to strength without losing focus of its roots and core beliefs in business and relationships.

Ilanga Travel has pledged support to a number of charities. This Altruistic team cares as much about people as it does about wildlife. We are pleased that they have chosen to join as Friends of the TCD Trust and support the work we do with Community Development.

A very warm welcome to Ilanga Travel we look forward to a long and rewarding Friendship in bringing the benefits of tourism back to desperate communities around us.

Due to circumstances beyond our control we have been asked by the Mount Nelson Hotel to postpone our fundraiser dinner which will now be held on Saturday the 3 September.

We will automatically rebook all reservations for tables which were booked for the 26th August and rebook your table for the 3 September. Please let me know if anyone cannot make it and we will try to resell your table or you can let me know if you have friends or family who will still attend the dinner – dance. The Mount Nelson Hotel has generously offered to sponsor this event for the second year and we appreciate their support and understand that the postponement of the fundraiser was unavoidable.

We have Rene Tanguy booked as our DJ so it is going to be a great evening and we have already received some wonderful prizes for the auction and raffle draw so lots of good prizes up for grabs.

We still have tables available and would really appreciate your support. Funds raised on the evening will be used to buy a Wendy house for a crèche in Philippi, replacing their shack which is in a very bad state of disrepair. So join us for a great evening of good food, great entertainment, wonderful venue and all for a very worthy cause.

Tickets cost R295.00 per person and include a 3 course meal, coffee, wine and entertainment.
Date : Saturday 03 September 2011.
Venue : The Ballroom, Mount Nelson Hotel.
Time : 18:30hrs for 19:00hrs.

We look forward to a fantastic fundraiser and thank everyone for their support of this event.