Fund Life-Changing Education for 201 African Kids

Dear Supporter,

One of our goals for 2015 is to help Ikhayalethemba meet all the criteria to become fully registered as a local care centre. As part of that goal, our volunteers have been busy making and installing custom fly screens at the Special Needs house. By addressing the health issue caused by the large numbers of flies, we are able to tick off some of the health and safety aspects for registration requirements.

At Ikhayalethemba Sanctuary, the design of the windows doesn’t allow for the usual style of fly screens and there is a lot of traffic in and out of the doors so flies don’t have much difficulty getting in. After a few prototypes and a bit of experimentation, our volunteers came up with a design using mosquito netting.

It still allows a breeze to cool the rooms and access to the window latches. They then used heavier netting to create strips that hang from the top of the door. It was great to see the volunteers sharing ideas and working together to solve this problem for the Special Needs area. 

One of the current Sanctuary Trust fundraising initiatives is a second-hand clothes shop that Mama Lumka and her family run each day. Our volunteers have helped out not only with the task of sorting the clothes for sale, but they also made some rails for Mama to hang the clothes on as part of her shop. Some of the volunteers also painted a sign to increase awareness of this fundraising initiative.

Thank you for your continued support on this project.

All the best

GVI Charitable Trust

Links:

• www.gvi.org