After a short lie in this morning, we woke up to a birthday
breakfast cooked by the team for my birthday. We arrived at Mafambisa at around
10:00am and got involved with preparations of the vegetables for the meal
(which was beetroot, pap and chicken feet). After that, we did a few songs and
prayers and then split into two groups ready for our home visit. The children
living at the house that I visited were living with their grandma because their
dad had died and their mom walked out on them five years ago, abandoning her
children and forcing the grandma to look after them. I was surprised at despite
the fact that the grandma was left in an awful situation, she never once spoke
badly about the mother of the children and although she didn’t know if the
mother of the children was still alive, she still refused to move house just in
case the mother decided to return. She said that if the mother of the children
wanted to come home, the grandma would always be waiting at the family home
where she left.
After our home visits, we returned to find that all
the children had arrived at the care point after their day at school. We all
stood in a circle, sang some songs and everyone sang happy birthday to my and
one of the teenagers from the care point who was also turning 17 at the same
time. After this, we helped serve meals to all the children and we got started
on helping the children to paint the netball posts. Although it started well, it
soon turned into a bit of mayhem when some of the children wanted to have a paint
fight! The care workers at Mafambisa work so hard…
there were just three courageous women there today – cooking for more than 60
children. It is amazing that they keep
going, We will be back at Mafambisa tomorrow
for our last day with them on this visit, so we hope it will be a special time
for all the children and the care workers too.
Libby Newman
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| Some of the members of the dream team outside Mafambisa care point |
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| Cooking Africa Style |
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| Daisy has a hair appointment with a friend |
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| Tasty food |
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| Sophie has language lessons in Siswati |
