Reaching out to the Poorest of the Poor - p.5

South Africa

Siyazama Pre School

Extensive renovations turned the facilities around into nine classrooms and a day care for working mothers from the community.

“We spent the lion’s share of our time at the Pre-school in Siyazama,” Eric shares. “The kids were so precious and cute… Our team went in and did general maintenance on the facilities.” For three days, the team coated wooden buildings with a weather protecting stain, fixed broken walls, organized storage sheds, built shelves, painted walls, and fixed plumbing.

Volunteers from Trinity Church in Dallas

Other projects under the Thembalitsha umbrella include training programs for adults. Micro MBA and The Hope Factory are projects that create opportunities for people from previously disadvantaged communities to be trained in business, technical and life skills, while gaining practical experience and becoming financially productive.

The Springtime Crisis Pregnancy Center has three branches: 1) Prevention - educational workshops in local high schools dealing with teen pregnancy, abortion, relationships, sex, STDs, HIV and AIDS; 2) Intervention - counselling for women and men in unplanned, crisis pregnancies by practically assisting and supporting those who choose to parent their child by providing them with baby clothes and other needs, information on prenatal and referrals to antenatal classes; and 3) Restoration - counselling for people grieving the loss or termination of a pregnancy.
 

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