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Dear Johan Small and Friends (Woodberry Woodpeckers)

We as Baphumelele Respite Care Centre/ Childrens Home, the Management, the Staff and the Children we would like

• to deeply thank you for the donation of the beautiful car bought for the Respite Care. We would like you to know that
• We are deeply humbled and we highly appreciated everything you all have done for us at Baphumelele and definitely has made a difference to the organization as a whole.

Looking forwards to seeing and hearing from you again soon. May God bless you, your family and colleagues in every area of your work.

All the best

Simphiwe Mabuya

Baphumelele Respite Center

The Woodberry Woodpeckers from Ireland are showing their ongoing commitment and support to the Baphumelele Respite Center. They understand that their great work of building and refurbishing the Center in 2007 was phase 1 of the project. The next phase is to ensure that the new icon in Khayelitsha is sustainable and can provide care in a controlled environment for the sick in years to come.

In November 2007 the Woodberry Woodpeckers donated €12 000 (R116 992-80) to the TCD Trust in support of the newly employed qualified nurse at the Respite Center.

Another fundamental inhibitor to proper service was the lack of transport. Patients need to be transported to and from the hospitals for further treatment, medicines need to be collected at the local clinics and taken to day patients, etc.

Again the Woodberry Woodpeckers, as part of their commitment, purchased a vehicle for the Respite Center with full insurance. In picture you can witness the hand over of the keys to an elated Rosie Mashale by Derek Wallace, one of the founder members of the Woodberry Woodpeckers.

The GM Dealership in Cape Town, Reeds Cape Town will service the vehicle for free until it reach 100 000km’s. We also thank them for their support.

The past week the Trust received a very nice thank you letter from the Baphumelele Educare Centre. Receiving this means a lot to us. It is what we do it for!

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Dear Di Thomas and Friends,

I, Rosie Mashale, the staff and management from Baphumelele Children’s Home Khayelitsha Cape Town, is hereby writing this letter to thank you for your kind donation. We truly acknowledge the endowment of food you bought for the Christmas Party for the Baphumelele Children’s Home. Your contribution definitely made a big deference. We thank you very much and my God’s richest Blessings be with you all in every area of your work. May you also have a great and prosperous new year!

Your contribution helped to save young, innocent children, whose lives have all been impacted by the HIV/Aids pandemic rampaging in our country – they are orphans or they have been abandoned by dying parents, they have been dumped as little babies or they are HIV-positive themselves. One way or another, they have all already experienced death, disease, abuse, neglect and hunger in their still so young lives.

It is people like you, who help to give them back their childhood, their smiles, their trust in life and a future. We are very grateful for your support and we hope that you will continue the support even years to come because Baphumelele is running five programmes and staffed with 69 people which means there is a long way to come for you to help.

All the best