Project Hope September News--Advancing Local Missionary work

God bless you! First of all, we want to apologize for the long delay in sending out this newsletter. A lot of wonderful things have happened in the last months. However, as Matthew 9:37 says: " The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. " There's so much that has to be done and, thanks to your support, is getting done. Beside holding our regular HIV/AIDS seminars and building the house for the orphanage we have started a brand new project. In the next 12 months or so, we want to donate 56 "vegetable tunnels" that will feed 700 children, throughout the whole year, in the rural area of Molweni. In this newsletter we'll shed some more light on this exciting project...
At the Emolweni Junior and Senior Primary School we taught 500 students who were extremely well behaved and receptive to our warning message of HIV/AIDS. After our seminar we prayed together with all of the 500 learners. This school is so poor that we are thinking of donating some vegetable tunnels to them. Then the needy students' families could receive some donated food that will have grown on the school premises.

Our vision is to help the "Kulani Kahle" Children's Home plus other orphanages, poor families and rural area schools to become self sufficient, as far as food is concerned, by teaching them to grow vegetables in tunnels.

Food that is grown in these vegetable tunnels is productive for 6 to 7 months ongoing. Vegetables in these tunnels are largely protected against climatic extremes as well as free from insect attack and other forms of degradation.

The tunnels are 9m x 4m in size and are manufactured of plastic pipe and 40% density shade cloth. They are supplied complete with everything needed to start. This includes all the necessary minerals and either spinach or tomato plants, brinjals, beans, cabbages, etc... And the wonderful news is that no running water or good soil is needed as they grow in saw-dust.

With eight of these tunnels, if managed properly, 100 people can be fed throughout the year. The price of a tunnel, at present, is 2,500 rand (about $ 357). The turnover out of the tunnel is approximately 8 times as much as it would be in an open garden.

All these positive attributes have contributed to the fact that we have decided to train the underprivileged and destitute people of the rural community of Molweni how to grow their own food. However, this initiative should not stop with this particular community, but it is also intended to reach other poor areas of Durban in the near future.
Notable quotes:

- Only those who have the patience to do simple things accurately will acquire the skill to do difficult things correctly.
- First do more than you are paid for before expecting to be paid for more than you do.
- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- Do everything you can, and expect God to do the rest.
- Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.


Thank you very much for helping us so faithfully! By investing in our work, you are making a positive, lasting impact in the lives of those who most need and benefit from your support.

AID Seminars continue...

AID Seminars continue