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APR
COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 Update

UPDATE:

If you're hoping to join us in 2021, we have wonderful news for you! On the evening of November 11th, President Ramaphosa announced that South Africa’s borders will soon reopen to all international travel. This comes as a huge relief to the projects we support as they have been without international volunteers since March.

For the time being, travellers will need

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17
AUG
Sleepover Weekend - August 2019

Sleepover Weekend - August 2019

Sleep over news! We have already had the next sleep over and I haven’t even told you about the last one! 😂 The 3 oldest boys at Fikelela Child and Youth Care Centre in Khayelitsha near Cape Town couldn’t wait for their sleep over. It would be the first time that that they were grouped liked this and were very excited. The weather was good so we went to a Wildlife Awareness Centre

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21
JUL
Sleepover Weekend - July 2019

Sleepover Weekend - July 2019

It has been such a long time since we had any girls around for a sleep over as the ratio at our Fikelela Child and Youth Care Centre project has been very boy heavy for quite some time now. There was only one girl in the age group we usually take and so we bravely (ha ha) took two much younger ones along to keep her company. Our first stop was the Two Oceans Aquarium at the V&A Waterfront in

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22
JUN
Sleepover Weekend - June 2019

Sleepover Weekend - June 2019

More sleep over news! We had 3 very excited boys from our Fikelela Child and Youth Care Centre Project, who had never been on a sleep over with us before and had been counting the sleeps! Winter had arrived and so we decided to go to an indoor play park called Wild Wild West, where the children could run, climb, slide, scream etc as much as they liked. The littlest one was so brave and just copied

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25
MAY
Sleepover Weekend - May 2019

Sleepover Weekend - May 2019

It’s almost time for the next sleep over and I haven’t told you about the last one yet! The three boys (from Fikelela Child and Youth Care Centre) were very impressed that we arrived in a different car and couldn’t wait to get going. The weather was surprisingly nice, so we decided to go to Root 44 market which has a lovely play area for the children. Soccer, jungle gyms, mini

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