Thank you again, everyone, for your love and support. On Thursday, someone who wishes to remain anonymous heard me speaking to the young people about 10/10/10 campaign and immediately pledged to give R1000 to the campaign! We are deeply grateful.

This week we also received the flight tickets for Cleo and Masixole to go to volunteer in Taizé (France) for 3 months in October. We must now apply and pay for their visas. Please pray for this process.

Other highlights

1. Our wonderful website is always up to date! Please check our blog “News and Views” regularly and like and share on social media. One of our young people (Raylene) submitted some photos of our current cohort and this will go up soon. under the Galleries section.
2. A photo of the Mandela Drumming appeared in the Village news. If you are in Hermanus, please get a copy. It talks about VYLTP as “renowned”. What a great description!
3. One of our leadership team members asked for 50 forms to recruit donors to the 10/10/10 campaign in KZN. Halala Thobeka! We are looking at how different people can become bronze, silver, gold and platinum ambassadors, depending on the amount of donors and ambassadors they recruit for the 10/10/10 campaign.
4. Our artist (Cleo) finished a Mandela Drum last week and started a Tutu drum this week. We won’t sell these but auction it. Any offers starting at R2000 are welcome. I will keep this offer open for a month and will let you know the highest offer we have received after each week. ….Siya also started building a big drum that 5 or more people can play together.
5. I received the “Homeboy/homegirls Theory of change” (Fr Greg Boyle’s ministry) document this week. IT is really interesting and we can learn much from it.
6. One of our great supporters in the USA (Michael Spath) was hospitalised this week. Please hold him in your prayers …