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We have started a Saturday morning learning assistance programme.  In February Innocentia started helping our scholars with Zulu and Afrikaans.  

In March, Alphie Dumbutshena started helping our adults with English, and finally, on 28 March, Thope and Blanche commenced classes in English, Maths and whatever else our scholars might need help with.  We are immensely grateful to these enthusiastic new co-workers and so are their students, who are really excited about the assistance they see they will get. 

 Thanks to a notice in the Edenvale parish bulletin, our electrician, Desire, managed to get a job.  We thank the Edenvale parish for helping us with this notice, and also Jose, his boss, for giving him the opportunity to prove himself.  Prayer “can move mountains!”

John came to us when he was only 8 years old.  The photo above shows him then with Sister Fidelis. He is now in his early twenties! In the meantime he went through his schooling where he studied catering and was made head boy of Greswold school. He got a job at Waterfall Retirement Village in their bakery and has already been given a promotion.  His enthusiasm cannot be stilled: in addition to this, he now plans to start doing catering, in his spare time, from home.   

We were able to find him some financial help to get his “home catery” going and our co-worker, Michael Jacobus, has mentored him admirably to get this small business off the ground.   Our thanks to his sponsor, who wishes to remain anonymous, and to Michael for his meticulous and selfless guidance, and every good wish to our John whose determination and enthusiasm will get him far. Good luck John, we are proud of you!

The first course we have done this year has just reached completion. There has been a very good attendance and already 30 refugees have enrolled to start the new course which commences on 13 April. This programme certainly is much-needed and highly successful.