eMasoyi Community Development Foundation
Welfare. Health. Training
We have been supporting a family since the Trust was set up, comprising two sisters and a younger brother, with the sisters having three children between them. You can read about them following the links below:
Food Parcels: TB, rape,legal documents
Sadly, we have just heard that Kh. died yesterday from multiple drug-resistant TB. She leaves two young children. Funerals in South Africa are usually big and expensive, but this family have no savings, no resources. We await further news.
Frank and Ruthie have arrived in South Africa for their annual three-month visit to Masoyi, starting tomorrow. They will spend much of their time visiting in the community, asking God to guide them to people who He wants to bless through them. 
“There will be hundreds of homes across the community with water pouring in from the torrential rain on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with most of those affected already being poor and vulnerable. Our hearts go out to them. May neighbours respond with kindness and generosity, and may You give the Project resources to help those most affected.”
“Please bless the children involved in social and spiritual counselling; group therapy; and other support groups. May You bring healing and hope. May you bless those leading with suitable skills and sensitivity – and their own healing and hope.”
Last November, fully trained Track 3 Peer Educators matriculated and left school. Over the last few weeks, our Peer Facilitators have been busy selecting and recruiting new students to join the programme on Track 1, so there are Educators covering all ages in high school.
The two sessions conducted in January covered “My Values”, and
Attendance has been good!
“Some orphaned and vulnerable children cannot access Government grants or schooling for lack of identity documents – because of missing birth and marriage certificates, because a parent was an undocumented immigrant. Please give guidance to workers who advocate on behalf of these children, and give them success in their endeavours.”
From February to April… or May… or June.
The Project administers a Government Expanded Public Works Programme in the local area, covering their own workers and about 100 other unemployed people, all working for the benefit of the community – and in theory leading to fulltime jobs. They are paid about £60-65pm, typically half the household’s total income, but for some their only income. The programme runs for nine months, so there is no pay for February, March and April – and no guarantee either of re-employment in May or that the scheme will be operational again by May.
“Some of the most destitute children rely on monthly food parcels from the Project; some need school uniform, shoes, warm bedding. Please provide the Project with sufficient funds to meet these practical needs without turning any away.”
“The M. family consisting of twin brothers, 18-year old La. and Si., who live in a two-room shack which they shared with their mother before she passed on. To begin with, the boys showed a high interest in their school work, but recently, they have developed a tendency of bunking school. I asked Selinah, our OVC coordinator, to have a word with the two boys about the importance of school, especially now that they are orphaned. Unfortunately, the two brothers failed their final examinations for 2016.
After the recent rains that resulted in flooding of their shack, I managed to send someone to fix the leaking roof. The food parcel has been a great source of fighting poverty in the boys’ lives, and it also helps them from involving themselves in criminal activities that could have landed either of the brothers into trouble just because of an empty stomach.”
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And yes, it is for February, despite what the page claims!
eMasoyi Community Development Foundation