Phew ...

HAPPY MANDELA DAY EVERYBODY!

PHEW! So much has happened in the last 2 weeks! Grab a cup of coffee or tea and come and have a read of what's what!

THE BIGGEST NEWS OF THE LAST 2 WEEKS is something that has been in the offing for a long while now.

Many of you know of how the placements of TLC children have worked up to now. Babies come in and TLC is responsible for their physical care whilst Impilo was responsible for the legal case work, over time some glaring differences in philosophy have become apparent between our two organisations and as of September 1st TLC will be woking with the registered Child Protection Organisation, Wandisa.

We are excited for this new partnership and ask for all your prayers as we work out the details and hopefully get to working smoothly as quickly as possible for the sake of our babies. Ofcourse our hearts are sad that we will now have difficulty placing babies to Denmark and we are hoping a solution for this will become clear in the future.

Besides all this going on in the background we also had 2 HUGELY EMOTIONAL events occur this week.

Our beloved Frank and our darling Martin have been placed into adoption. They are both so in love with their forever families and it is a great comfort to us at TLC to see how all the preparation work we have done with them has paid off. They were able to establish comfortable and affectionate relationships so easily and we are confident there will be minimal trauma for them. We wish them well in their lives going forward and will always hold them dear to our hearts. Thank you to each individual who had a hand in caring for these tow special children - your input made all the difference.

These placements have helped us have a new hope for difficult to place children and we attend therapies, medical appointments and other meetings with new enthusiasm.

This week was also marked by the birthday of two of our special "Tiger" Girls.

We had a lovely joint birthday party and celebrated with cake and presents!



THEN

FOR MANDELA DAY

TLC was inundated with goodwill and lots of practical help this week in honour of the 94th birthday of Nelson Mandela.

Every citizen was challenged to give 67 minutes of their time to help improve the lives of vulnerable South Africans and .... boy did people rise to the challenge!

Some gave time to care for the babies

Some gave time to prepare a meal!

Some cleaned up!

Some brought donations!

And by the end of the week I was left feeling like this!!!!

Completely Pooped!


For those of you who would still like to contribute and honour Mandela for his contributions to the world you will be happy to know that our online donations button is now working on the TLC Website and this makes R67 from a credit card donation very easy.  :-)
 (Hint hint nudge nudge!)

We Love you all

Pippa