Dear Friends and supporters Once again the unexpected has surprised us from behind and our village Bulwer was directly hit by the recent violence and looters. All the businesses in our usually bustling village, a place where the people from neighboring communities bought all their supplies and many had some form of employment, were looted …
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We have had a good four months getting our clients back into the swing of things at the centre, albeit only part of the time. It was wonderful to have them back and make plans for the future returning to normal. But, of course now we are back in Lockdown 4 and have brought our …
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Almost to the day a year later we are finally welcoming our clients back at the Centre after getting the go ahead from the Department of Health. We are opening slowly. We have settled in four residents, and we have started to bring in our day care children/young adults from last Monday. It is a …
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We are hoping and praying that all HNO friends wherever you are, are keeping healthy and strong and encouraged and hopeful. Although we sent a newsletter about a month ago we decided to just send a short update on what is happening in Bulwer. As you know we closed the centre down in March and …
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To all our dear friends and supporters all over the world. Not in a month of Sundays did I think I would be writing this quarters newsletter in these circumstances. Today is the first day of our lockdown in South Africa and also the first day of reported deaths due to the Corona virus. Two …
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Christmas greetings everyone! This last term of 2019 has “whizzed” by so fast and we have been as busy as ever here at HNO. Conny asked me, Mary, to write this term’s newsletter and I thought I would give you a closer look at our children and an insight into the time we spend together …
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Hello everybody. We have celebrated Spring day and typical of KZN weather just when we feel the warm weather should be here to stay it turns freezing again and today we opened our new term in 11 degrees. At the end of the last term we had our AGM as you know and I will share …
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Greetings from freezing Bulwer. A big thank you to all those who send us warm clothes and blankets at this time of the year. They go out as quickly as they come in, too many very grateful recipients out there in the frosty communities. I wish I could name you all but we know that …
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