Project Report
| Oct 4, 2010
Report on Esther-Hannah House at Refilwe Community
By Brian La Trobe | Project Leader
Esther-Hannah Unit
This is a foster care household, known as a God Parent Family, at Refilwe Community Project. Foster mother, Annatjie Cilliers is now living with 2 foster children, Norah and Malekgolta, in the house. She had a 3rd daughter Yonela, who reunited with her biological family in January 2010. Norah is in the process of reuniting with her biological family and Malekgotla is in her last year of school and expressed the desire to study to become a pharmacist. She will commence a career during 2011. The house will always be available for God Parent families at Refilwe.
Involvement of the Brian La Trobe (BLT) foundation and Global Giving
The BLT foundation has been involved with Refilwe for several years. After an assessment of Esther-Hannah unit the foundation decided to support the renovation of the 72m² to make it a more comfortable living environment for the family. Before the renovations the cottage consisted of 3 bedrooms, a huge bathroom, a small kitchen and a living room. The bath room were twice the size of the kitchen taking up about 15m² of the cottage. After the renovations the 72m² cottage has 3 bedrooms, a pantry/storeroom, an open plan kitchen-living area and two small bath rooms. Please see pictures below. The living conditions indeed are much improved which lead to easier working and study conditions for the family.
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Jun 30, 2010
up date
By Brian La Trobe | Project leader
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globalgiving sign in Tanau Jewellery display
One of our donors, SA Gems, has recently patented a new method of marketing diamonds. The company has graciously included Globalgiving into its marketing campaign, as can be seen in the first photograph of a Cape Town jeweller in South Africa. The second picture shows the little girls of Shalom House,Tshepi,Kgatliso,Naledi and Thembi inspecting the the nearly completed Ester Hannah House, where the final installation of electrical and gas equipment is being installed in the open plan kitchen/ dining and living area. My wife, Peggy, has been busy knitting winter beanie hats for the girls of Rerfilwe.
THe final picture shows Peggy witrh the girls of Shalom House together with their house mother, Maureen, all wearing their new winter hats. Sis Annatjie Cillier, the new house mother of Ester Hannah house is on the right of the picture.
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Inspecting the Ester Hannah House
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The girls of Shalom House
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Feb 18, 2010
Report on renovations of Esther-Hannah
By Brian La Trobe | Dr.
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Our latest donor check from Globalgiving is a magfnificent record ! By far the largest amount received since the inception of the Foundation. We are deeply grateful for the generous amount of $ 2,248.07 received. This will go a long way towards the completion of a new home for abused and AIDS related child victims.
Below you'll find an excerpt from a report detailing the building reconstruction of our latest renovation, which my Foundation is funding at Refilwe. The full report is attached to this update.
"La Trobe Foundation has decided to support the God Parent Family Unit of Annatjie Cilliers and her foster children. Annatjie serves in the administration of Refilwe Community Project and has become a God Parent in February 2009. Her house is a home for teenage girls. The family calls their home: Esther-Hannah
"The renovations started on 15 January 2010 by a team of international volunteers who wanted to serve for two weeks at Refilwe Community Project. They were from various countries but all received missions training for 3 months in Davos, Swiss, before coming to South Africa for the practical part of their training. They will be working at various projects in South Africa for 3 months. The Refilwe Site Team continued with the renovations after the YWAM team had left."
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