2020 has been a different year - in so many ways. Both the founder and our staff have had sad losses of close family members. The covid-19 has made it impossible to travel and make progress in our projects. But we have worked in the background. We are still working on establishing an orphanage. We have still helped many of the children and disabled in need, financially, with clothes, sponsoring studies and field trips and much more. And we have worked on our web page, to bring it up to 2021 standard.
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We just received another big number of knitted baby shirts and other knit-work. We really appreciate these donations, they mean so much for the new-born in Zululand and the maternity wards at the hospitals we visit are thrilled to get them.
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Flatbygdi school in VIk, Norway have arranged an annual solidarity week, where learners in some classes are studying solidarity perspectives and funding money to a solidarity or charity organization. They have desided to give the money to Children of Zululand, with intentions on building a cooperation between Flatbygdi school and Children of Zululand, to last for many years ahead.
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Flatbygdi school in Vik, Norway has released their report on the annual solidarity week, that they do every fall, classes 1-7. This year they desided to give all the funds to Children of Zululand, of which we are very thankful.
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Thore visited Flatbygdi school in Vik today, presenting Children of Zululand and the work we do in Zululand, for 30+ teachers and school management. Flatbygdi school has invited us for a cooperation where they fund money for our organization through an annual charity/solidarity project in school, as part of the education.
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We have helped Siphezi Primary School for a while, and we have no extended our help by recruiting two of our young volunteers, Lindokuhle and Elvis, to work as teachers at the school. The school has about 170 learners, but only 4 teachers + the principal. The teachers are running between class rooms, teaching several classes at the same time. This is not working very well. With the help from Lindokuhle and Elvis, they can make such a difference.
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iKhaya LikaBaba is an orphanage run by a church and with donations from Europe. We have visited them and we brought them supplies and sweets. We also brought them second-hand bicycles, give by Rotary Club of Empangeni.
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To raise money for our work in Zululand, we have desided to open a second-hand shop in Ulvik and we opened the doors on August 9, 2018. Ulvik is a small town, and we don't know if the shop will bring us the funding we need, but we want to try. If it's more work than income, we will just close again.
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After our last meeting and dinner with her worship, district mayor of King Cetshwayo District, NNP Mkhulisi at Waterfront Hotel, Richards Bay, she invited our founder Thore to attend her programme all day on Nelson Mandela Day, on July 18th 2018 at Ntsele Household, Nzalabantu.
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Children of Zululand
Postboks 77
N-5731 Ulvik
Norway
