Ashley and Hendrico volunteered to help with a building project at the home and have done a fantastic job, learning many new skills. They even completed the brick work themselves. Both of them want to own their own building company one day.
Emmanuel Child & Youth Care Centre (ECYCC) provides care and safe refuge for children who have been abused, neglected, abandoned and orphaned. Based in the town of Middelburg (Eastern Cape, South Africa). ECYCC is a registered NPO (non-profit organisation) in South Africa.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Tea Mornings and Birthdays
The Emmanuel Ladies Morning Tea was hosted on 21st October by Karen MacEwan; it was a huge success and the first of many more to come.. We are grateful for funds that came in and to Karen for hard work and the fact that the care workers of the home were spoiled with lovely treats. Thanks to the Desert Inn for opening their hearts and home to us, and for all the helpers and donors that assisted Karen in the event.
Three new children joined us last month: Renier who is 14, 2-year old toddler Kelvin and baby Olwani who is 4-months old. As well as new arrivals, we have been celebrating some birthdays: Clayton turned 21 on 1st November: congratulations to him and on the birth of his son in September this year. Clayton is working and now living with his new family, we are proud of him and he is doing good since he 'graduated' from the home. We also celebrated Ronaldo's 11th birthday and Veronica's 14th birthday - happy days as the photos show:
Zoleka Naleni started as a third care worker. With her joining Katy and Martha, we now have cover for the morning, afternoon and night shift. We welcome her as part of our family.
We are aiming to starting a Community Outreach program during the December holidays called "Project Clean Up", where our children will participate in helping to clean areas blighted by rubbish around Midros and Middelburg. They will also help make other children from the community aware of the problem and get them to take part so we will have a big community 'team' working together on it. We will hand out leaflets in order to make the adult community aware of this problem too. We will have permission from the Council of Midros and M/B to run this activity and we hope to continue it throughout 2013. We are applying for funds in order to keep this up e.g. paper for printing, petrol for transport, casual labour or people to help on this project. We think this activity is important because we want to educate the children about keeping a clean environment and the benefits of this. We want everyone in the community to have pride in their surroundings.
Other updates: the Seventh Day Adventist Church donated two computers to the home, which we will use to start IT lessons for the bigger children as soon as we get the volunteers to do this. Veronica will be visiting a hair salon during the December holiday, she will work and learn for a week the skills and art of hair braiding as this is a passion.
Three new children joined us last month: Renier who is 14, 2-year old toddler Kelvin and baby Olwani who is 4-months old. As well as new arrivals, we have been celebrating some birthdays: Clayton turned 21 on 1st November: congratulations to him and on the birth of his son in September this year. Clayton is working and now living with his new family, we are proud of him and he is doing good since he 'graduated' from the home. We also celebrated Ronaldo's 11th birthday and Veronica's 14th birthday - happy days as the photos show:
Zoleka Naleni started as a third care worker. With her joining Katy and Martha, we now have cover for the morning, afternoon and night shift. We welcome her as part of our family.
We are aiming to starting a Community Outreach program during the December holidays called "Project Clean Up", where our children will participate in helping to clean areas blighted by rubbish around Midros and Middelburg. They will also help make other children from the community aware of the problem and get them to take part so we will have a big community 'team' working together on it. We will hand out leaflets in order to make the adult community aware of this problem too. We will have permission from the Council of Midros and M/B to run this activity and we hope to continue it throughout 2013. We are applying for funds in order to keep this up e.g. paper for printing, petrol for transport, casual labour or people to help on this project. We think this activity is important because we want to educate the children about keeping a clean environment and the benefits of this. We want everyone in the community to have pride in their surroundings.
Other updates: the Seventh Day Adventist Church donated two computers to the home, which we will use to start IT lessons for the bigger children as soon as we get the volunteers to do this. Veronica will be visiting a hair salon during the December holiday, she will work and learn for a week the skills and art of hair braiding as this is a passion.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Clayton Prepares for a Big 2012
ECYCC has a had a good success story in December. Funds have been raised for the first quarter of his planned Gap Year with the FCE (Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education). This chance for study and travel cannot be valued highly enough - Clayton will get to see life outside of Middelburg properly for the first time and even outside South Africa. We now look for sponsors to help fund the remainder of the Gap Year.
We owe some a lot of gratitude to friends of ECYCC who have helped secure sponsorship for Clayton and given him this life changing opportunity. Heartfelt thanks go out to Candice Nash and her company Servier Laboratories in the UK who have kindly donated funds to help set Clayton on his way and purchase the basic items needed for the start of the trip. Also we are very grateful to Tian and Karen Erasmus who have been instrumental in making this all happen.
We are proud of Clayton's desire to make the most of this opportunity and cannot wait to see how he develops in this big year ahead.
We owe some a lot of gratitude to friends of ECYCC who have helped secure sponsorship for Clayton and given him this life changing opportunity. Heartfelt thanks go out to Candice Nash and her company Servier Laboratories in the UK who have kindly donated funds to help set Clayton on his way and purchase the basic items needed for the start of the trip. Also we are very grateful to Tian and Karen Erasmus who have been instrumental in making this all happen.
We are proud of Clayton's desire to make the most of this opportunity and cannot wait to see how he develops in this big year ahead.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Daniel's Experience
Daniel Blom is a very special child from the Emmanuel Children's Home. Daniel wants to become a policeman someday and Bertus thought it would be a positive experience to let him spend a day at the local police station in Middelberg to help him make this dream feel real.
Daniel got to spend some time with the dog unit and see the dogs in training. He also had the chance to sit in the Commissioner's chair at his desk "talking" on his phone. Daniel reported early on duty with Anzelle van Aarde to accompany him and was welcomed by Inspector Liz McEwan.
Daniel got to witness the parade done by the student constables and he loved it very much. Daniel was also taken to the forensics department and experienced having his finger and foot prints taken which he could keep as a souvenir. Daniel signed a special document "swearing him in" as a citizen helping to prevent crime. He took lots of presents back to the home to remind him of this special day as well as the pictures and stories which were reported in the local newspaper, the Middelburg Courant. Ever since, when a police car drive past the house Daniel runs to the window to see who is going pasr. He is very proud of what he did and we all are of him.
Daniel got to spend some time with the dog unit and see the dogs in training. He also had the chance to sit in the Commissioner's chair at his desk "talking" on his phone. Daniel reported early on duty with Anzelle van Aarde to accompany him and was welcomed by Inspector Liz McEwan.
Daniel got to witness the parade done by the student constables and he loved it very much. Daniel was also taken to the forensics department and experienced having his finger and foot prints taken which he could keep as a souvenir. Daniel signed a special document "swearing him in" as a citizen helping to prevent crime. He took lots of presents back to the home to remind him of this special day as well as the pictures and stories which were reported in the local newspaper, the Middelburg Courant. Ever since, when a police car drive past the house Daniel runs to the window to see who is going pasr. He is very proud of what he did and we all are of him.
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