Bike race!!!!!

On the 22nd of june four of our orphans and two of our Project O staff rode in the Kwa Ximba bike race. The bike Race was 10km and our guys all came in the top ten!!!!

Lindani, 14 years old.

Linda, 14 years old.

Agreement, 13 years old and Khayelihle, 15 years old have all been orphaned due to Hiv/Aids.

They have been members of our bike club for a while now and are some of our stronger riders which is why we picked them for the race.

They had a great day and the fact that they came in the top ten was amazing as there were around 100 people in the race!

We would once again like to thank Sean's Power Cycles, Group 5 and Action Pad Print for your support and for the bikes!!!!!

Crisis Center really cares!

A couple of months ago we had a team from Living Waters Missions crisis center come and visit us. God has really put our organization on their hearts and wanted to help in any way that they could.

Diane and her team came by one day and we all went to the Valley to visit some of our orphans. With them they bought food, toys, clothes and Zulu childrens books. We went to see a number of our orphans and the team had a chance to bless these children with the gifts that they had brought with them.

We had such a great day, the children loved their gifts and were so happy to see that some people care about them and their family. The team prayed with each family and I know that this was a huge blessing to each and every person under the sound of those prayers. The day was full of joy and laughter.

And I cant wait for their next visit in august.

Thankyou Diane and the team of faithful friends for coming to bless these children and thier families, I want you to know that not only did you bless them but you also blessed myself and the Project O staff. Thankyou for the encouragement and love that you have shown to us in the short time that we have spent together.

Teddy Bears all round!

We have some friends in the UK who had a great idea of how to bless our orphans. One day while cleaning out her toys Laura Cowen saw that she just had too many teddy bears and didnt know what to do with them. So after talkng with her dad they came up with the idea of sending them to our orphans here at Project O. When we recieved the box stuffed with bears and other soft toys we were so excited. The orphans that we work with do not have any toys and for them to be given a cuddly toy from a little girl in the UK was such a treat.

I shared with Laura and her Dad (Mike) what a blessing the bears were and how the children loved them so much, Mike came up with another idea. He is one of the leaders at the Kids club run by their church. He spoke with the children at Mighty Kids and they started to bring their soft toys in so that Mike and Laura could send them to the orphans of Project O.

We now recieve boxes of soft toys every couple of months and we love getting them.......more importantly our children here love to get them.

Such a simple idea from a little girl in England has made such a difference to these children here.

Thank you Laura for seeing a need and sharing it with others, now we have many happy little boys and girls who have a teddy to snuggle!

Thank you Mike for caring enough to get behind Laura and Project O.

And Thank you for all the children at Mighty Kids who gave your bears for an orphan. We belive every child should have a teddy bear!!!!!