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.
We want to keep our donors, sponsors and other supporters updated on what is going on with our children. We want to give you an insight into their lives, their stories and their needs and challenges.
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Linda just sent us some photos from todays visit at Siphezi school, to hand out shoes and ties to those children who needed it. As usual, quite many do need shoes and many also need a tie for their school uniform.
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On this awesome travel, I was accompanied with Rune, Hildur, Terje, Tommy Andrè, Ola and Ulla. And of course, in South Africa we were joined by Lindor and Anthony. The travel took place on February 10-24 and it all went as planned. Well, almost. We had to leave Terje behind at the airport in Norway. For some reason, his passport was not accepted and he had to stay behind to have a new passport made. He joined us on our 3rd day, so he didn't get to see much of Cape Town, but the rest of the travel we were all present.
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After planning our February 2018 for a long time, we were informed, just before leaving from Norway, that there is a huge water crisis in South Africa, and especially around Cape Town area, where we were about to stay for 3 days.
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We just received a very inspiring email from Polan, telling us that Children of Zululand has had an inspirational effect on the writer and that he had started a project in Poland because of that inspiration. Thank you for your inspirational feedback.
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A few years back, Children of Zululand funded money and built a house for Sipho. Since then we have visited him every year, when we are in Zululand with a new delegation. Sipho has no way of communicating, but he expresses himself through gestures and sounds and it is not very hard to see that he really appreciates our visits. The children in the area obviously enjoy our visits as well, always bringing footballs and sweets and clothes for them. They come running when they see our white mini-van, they know what we bring.
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We have participated in the local Christmas Market this year, selling things from our second hand shop and also some Children of Zululand items, some postcards, etc. In addition we sold Thore's home made chocolates.
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We just received a big donation of second-hand baby clothes and childrens clothes, toys, board games, shoes, blankets, dolls, teddy bears and much more from people around Askim, Ørje, Mysen and Rakkestad in Norway. Thank you
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It was a big day at King Dinazulu Creche when we visited and told them the news that Leikanger Barneskule in Norway had collected a sum of approximately 26.000 Rand.
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Children of Zululand
Postboks 77
N-5731 Ulvik
Norway
