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

Whew, what a week.

Hello Friends

This is a leaf Doninique found the other day.
It made me feel like saying to the leaf "I know the feeling pal."

Some weeks just make your head spin.

This week was all a frenzy: Mom and Zoe were away for 3 days on a conference that will hopefully open some new avenues for funding and the Nursery was a hub of activity as everything got packed up and made ready for the volunteer weekend.

Those of you who have been around at such a time will know how it's like having 2 streams of business going on: The regular work of caring for the babies - where you can't afford to skip a beat AND the work of packing bags for everyone who is going away ~ that means 35 labelled bags of baby stuff all packed for the individual! A massive job and we THANK THE LORD for our beloved ANNE who does such an amazing amount of work in preparation for this!

An added level of the chaos was that we planned a pretty "Major" repaint of the Nursery and Praise God we have a special Group of 7 wonderful young people from the Mennonite Missions community that are here to help with a repaint/ renovation of the Nursery while everyone is away. 

We got the Paint sponsored by TLC UK! Thanks guys!

We moved everything out of the Nursery...whew!

Thanks to the MMC Group who always have smiles on their faces!

The Nest Cribs getting some sun for a change!

So they are all still busy painting as we "speak".
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Some other things that have gone on this week ...

We had another birth! This little Bull was born on Monday.

Our Main Cook, Minah, is on 2 weeks leave so I am in the kitchen ~ a place that I love :-)
And God loves too .... just look what he sent me while peeling potatos!

The kids are on school holidays so here are a few "helping" rake the ever falling leaves outside the kitchen. Plenty others were inside peeling and chopping and generally trying to be helpful ~ it was quite pleasant but I didn't have time to take any photos!

And through all of this we are reminded so beautifully how despite cash flow issues, God truly is the supplier of "Our Daily Bread" ... and in this case our daily vegetables (Thank You Fruit Spot Wynberg).

Please remember to check our Main TLC website often for updates of things we could use help with and please encourage friends and family members to Adopt-A-Cot :-)

Keep us all in your prayers, as always the Blessings go hand in hand with the Struggles.

We Love You All
Pippa