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Posts Tagged ‘HIV/AIDS’
Amadeus meets AmaZulu
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Children, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, music, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on August 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Everyone a Winner!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art, Auction, Children, Christian, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on May 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »
There is a boy in hospital with a spectacular talent for drawing. Here is a lovely portrait he drew of a fellow patient. He has had no teaching. He can just do it. This drawing only took him about 15 minutes.
He keeps his drawings in his bedside locker and is always very pleased to show them to visitors. Sadly, he is very seriously ill and the future does not look at all hopeful. Both his parents are dead and his home is with an uncle, but he has accepted that he will probably never get back home.
As part of our work with the children, we get them to draw and do craft activities. The materials are simple – pencils, crayons, paper, glue – but they need constant replenishment. To help with the cost, we have decided to auction this picture.
But it is going to be an auction with a difference. In this auction everyone will have the privilege of making a payment, and the person who pays the highest amount will get the original picture. Everyone a winner!
You can make a secure online credit card payment here.
The winner will be decided on 20th June. (That’s my birthday and a bid in this auction would be a most acceptable present!)
I don’t like Mondays!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Alone, Children, Christian, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on March 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Many of us agree with Bob Geldof when he sings “I don’t like Mondays”. What do we not like? Well, a whole plethora of irritations – back to work/school, the weather, the car breaks down, or worst of all our iPhone goes on the blink.
I was having an OK Monday. Nothing specially bad, but nothing specially good either. Then I went to see Ayanda (not her real name). Ayanda is three. She has been in hospital for the last 5 months. She is HIV+, has TB, is partially blind and deaf, can’t sit up, move her legs or right arm, does not eat solid food, cannot talk or play. Ayanda has had an extended stay in hospital during each of her 3 short years. Her mother is unmarried, unemployed and cannot get any government assistance because she has no ID book. Her mother has not been in to see Ayanda for the last 6 weeks. Ayanda is profoundly on her own in a way I have never been alone.
What a nerve I have to complain about Mondays or indeed any other day.
Our Latest News
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Children, Christian, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, Neglect, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on January 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Time for that last minute present?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Children, Christian, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, Neglect, Sexual Abuse, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on December 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
A gift of just £25/$40 will allow one of the Zanini Bantwana team to spend a full day with the children in hospital.
Go to https://www.givengain.com/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=donate&cause_id=1809 or click on the “Donate Now” box on the right and make a secure online credit card payment.
You know it makes sense!
Many thanks from the team and the children.
the OUTCRY! Nov/Dec 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Children, Christian, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, Neglect, Sexual Abuse, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on November 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Here is the latest edition of our newsletter. Sorry it’s a bit late!
Another Link
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Children, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, Neglect, Sexual Abuse, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on October 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
To lose both parents and have to go and live with strangers is traumatic for any child. But how do you cope when you are neglected and seriously abused in that new home?
Noreen, a girl of 15, faced that situation and fled to the hospital for safety. There was nothing medically wrong with her, but she stayed in hospital waiting for a new home to be found for her.
After she had been in hospital for a month, the sister in charge of the ward called us to ask if we could help her. We agreed to have her come to our family while the social worker continues to carry out the necessary investigations. Hopefully a good long-term home will soon be found for her. In the meantime, we are giving her a warm, secure home where she can be cared for and experience God’s love.
Our hope is that we can be a link in the chain which enables Noreen to become the young woman God wants her to be.
(N.B. In the interests of confidentiality, Noreen is not the girl’s name and the photograph is not of her.)
Small Beer?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Children, Christian, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, South Africa, Zanini Bantwana on October 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Recently a friend of ours arranged to make a monthly payment to support ZB. In a note, he described it as “small beer” – not very much.
Well, it may not seem like very much to him, but it means a huge amount to the children in hospital. About R125 (£12 or $18) pays for someone to spend a morning with the children. No two days are the same as we meet the changing needs of the children. But every day will make a significant impact on the lives of at least 10 to 20 children and include some of these:
- Allowing a girl to express that she doesn’t want to return to the home where she has been raped.
- Making animals out of toilet roll tubes
- Taking children to the jungle gym to get fresh air and exercise
- Telling a Bible story to 6 children
- Teaching children to brush their teeth
- Showing a boy of 12 how to add numbers above 10
- Holding the hand and praying with a girl dying of AIDS
- Hugging a baby abandoned in hospital
- Helping a 5 year old learn to hold a crayon
- …and lots of other things
As we look at our statement from the bank or credit card, I don’t think we will see many items more important than these.
ZB can change your “small beer” into life-giving encounters for the children in hospital.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abandoned, Children, Christian, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, South Africa on May 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
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