We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill -

 

 

 

The testimony behind the Orphan Care Foundation

Registered Public Benefit Organization (PBO) no: 930031412

Registered Non Profit Organization with department of Social Development (NPO) no: 075-214

 

 

 

Orphan Care Foundation - Sowing Love, Hope and Purpose into the lives of Orphaned, Abandoned and Vulnerable Children

Welcome

We all can contribute to alleviate the plight of children without parents, abandoned and vulnerable. Seeds of hope and compassion sowed into the lives of children in need will bear fruit and multiply for generations to come. A self-centred life has no eternal value to humankind or the Kingdom of God.

How this foundation was founded:

On a cold and rainy winter's day a friend gave a lift to a child, on her way to school. Later that morning she told my wife and I about the soaking wet girl who stood beside the road in her school clothes, desperate for a lift to school. Every day she hitchhikes 15 km to school and 15 km back. She lost both her parents to illness and is cared for by her sister, together with two other children.

 

An overwhelming compassion for this orphaned child stirred inside us. We both wondered what we could do to help. We prayed for guidance and opportunities to assist her and to bring hope into her life. The next day our friend told the story to an old school friend who was overwhelmed - she is a trustee of a Family Trust and was looking for orphans to assist financially.

 

I phoned and visited the school to find the girl. I offered to be her mentor and manage the sponsored funds. My knowledge and previous involvement in humanitarian projects in Africa came to good use.  My life was deeply touched the morning I met the child and broke the good news to her that she will in future have a raincoat, transport to school and other basic needs throughout her school career.

 

To see the transformation in the eyes of a child whose future is changed from one of desperation to hope is indescribable.

 

We have started with one child and have currently 60 children in need of help and support.

 

South Africa currently has 1,500,000 Aids orphans and will have 2,000,000 by 2010.

 

These are children who wake up hungry and desperate. When afraid, they have no arms to run into for protection. When hurt, there are no moms or dads to pick them up and dry their tears. Their lives are shaped by fear of the unknown and a desperate struggle for survival. They might never have the privilege of growing up in a home where they can think and play like a child. They must do without the loving care of a parent or someone to inspire and guide them; someone to help make their dreams come true; a house with food on the table and a fair opportunity to go to school.

 

I asked myself - how can I see this and do nothing?  How can I dream of business empires and three course meals and sleep safe and secure under pure cotton linen while children are crying in the ghettoes and living on garbage? Should I not be lending a hand of hope? For each of us there is a place in God's plan, unique to our skills, position in society and network of connections and influence. 

 

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Kids Club Christmas Party - we gave 200 + kids food and snacks and 150 presents

 

 

 

Team of volunteers who helped to make this such a success

 

Bussiness Women's Association lunch on 18 November 2009.

 

Preparing Christmas cards for the BWA lunch to say thank you for 100 Christmas boxes and R8,401 rand donated to the OCF.

 

Christmas gifts to 180 mentally and physically challenged children.

Below is a preschool of Westlake United Church Trust -  a shining example of how children from the community are lifted out of their situation into an environment of proper learning and care.

 

 

Distribution of Winter clothes to children in the Westlake community with Pastor Lucinda Dooley of Hillsong Church Cape Town.

 

The child support group was successfully launched in July.

 

Our DVD completed By Elwin and Lorien in July

 

 

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Letter from one of the children:

My name is Bafana Nkatazo.

 

I used to struggle to get something but now I am not. I went to school with no money in my pocket or a snack to chew, I went to a school where your child can never go! I had to pay R50 for my school fee but I could'nt afford it, why cause I was swimming in the middle of poorness.

 

I lost my mother when I was 11 years old, I don't wanna talk of my father cause I never saw him, neither to see in photos or pictures. When I lost my mother, from then I lost my potential, but for a second I thought that I got my three sisters and three brothers so nothing to worry about. But I never saw any changes; all I did was to swim in poverty and poorness.

 

If it was'nt for Martin, the man who took me from hell and took me somewhere with tenderness. Even now I would have been swimming in the crazy none potential swimming pool.

 

Now I feel like a person again, but im not rushing things im taking them slowly. And when I succeed you will see the changes. I will never let my children suffer the same I did in life!

 

Bafana Nkatazo

 

 

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Registered Public Benefit Organization (PBO) no: 930031412

Registered Non Profit Organization with department of Social Development (NPO) no: 075-21

Orphan Care Foundation

P.O.Box 837

Constantia

7848

Cape Town - South Africa

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill -