By Ndileka Xameni | Founder and Project Leader
Dear friends far and near -
It is winter here in S. Africa, and while not like the snowy very very cold you have in parts of America and Northern Europe, cold for us. Our second soup kitchen, in Bedford township, is serving ever more hungry people in these cold months, and we have been able to expand our programs through outreach to get the word out that we can feed even more - nothing fancy, but nutritious samp and beans every day for whomever can get to us. With our used van, we get a lot of food from the local food bank and so we make every dollar donated count for four or five or more dollars. Our volunteers would love to be paid, but are loyal and uncomplaining. We hope to continue to grow, or stabilize, so we can plan further out than a few months. But we continue our work and we continue to support the AIDS infected mother who lives in our property with her children as we seek a more permanent solution for her. Ndileka goes back and forth between this project and her Siyaphambili AIDS Orphanage in Langa Township outside Cape Town. With the corruption in the S. African government, there are no funds for our programs, but we are getting more publicity and more known. We will never stop, and appreciate every donation more than any thank you note can address. God bless you all - we hope for bigger news in our next report. Winter ends soon.
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