THAF Update: January

Volunteer Marie delivering donations to Malibongwe
Creche on one of our first days on project.

We are back in full swing here in St. Lucia and 2013 has got off to a great start! The Happy Africa Foundation began its year with delivering donations to all of the eight crèches that we work with, these donations included, balls, pens, paper, toys and a new bike for each crèche. 

It was a lovely way to start the year and was a good opportunity for the first volunteers of 2013 to see everywhere that we work throughout the year. We have also donated clothes and a towel to each of our regular home based care patients as well as a large clothing donation for the Dube family who are part of our 10 Families Programme.

Fundraising continues in St. Lucia with our monthly Quiz Night, and the one held in January saw R1663 made and eight teams attend with all the proceeds going to the Inkanyezi Crèche Development Programme.This is the biggest success yet but we hope to achieve even greater in the months to come. 

The “Buy A Brick” scheme is taking off very well with the total amount raised so far being R5911. This is a great start to the campaign but we would love more people to be involved. If you would like to be part of “Buy A Brick” then please email stlucia@happyafricafoundation.org for more information. 

A new volunteer house meant a new THAF wall!

Last year we started a fun THAF activity by having volunteers write letters about their time as volunteers. This January, the first batch of “Letters to Yourself” have started to arrive in the home countries of past volunteers. We have had some great feedback on the letters, saying that it is a lovely way to remind them of their time in St. Lucia and refresh the memories they made.

There are a lot of exciting events and opportunities in the works for coming months and we hope that volunteers, both old and new, will be involved in helping us raise more funds for our four focal projects.