Feb 2016 Newsletter

BLUE BAGS FOR THAMBAZIMBA
Debby and Paul Schwengler along with Mark and Deborah Schwengler visited the Thambazimba orphanage
in South Africa where they humbly delivered two blue bags for the boy and girl divisions of the orphanage.
The orphanage was home to 18 boys and 16 girls and is sustained by local hunt farms in the area who
provide wild game meat that hunters have harvested.
Staff at the orphanage ensure the children go to school on a consistent basis, and they also arrange for
tutors to come in twice a week to help those that have fallen behind. Some of the children fall behind
in their learning as they have not received any form of schooling until such time as they arrived at the
orphanage.
By the age of eighteen educators endeavour to enrol the youth into technical training where they can
benefit from on the job training and begin earning an income. Financial management life skills are also
encouraged by way of staff assisting the youth in setting up savings accounts so that they can secure funds
to aide in the purchase of their own home. At the time the Schwengler’s visited there were three students
who were working but still had to come back to the orphanage to sleep and eat.
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