So it may have taken 6 months to happen, but I am now able to accept online donations.
I don't know if you should be thanking me or if I should be thanking you....
Either way, you can find a link to set that up in the "Joining my Support Team" tab if you are interested. Reach Africa, Inc is a USA non-profit that effectively exists to process US donations to Phambili ngeThemba, and your donations will be tax deductible in the same way they have been at BCF.
If you want it to get to me, you'll either have to let me know that you donated it or you'll need to give directly through the razoo site where they allow you to type in a designation. Otherwise the money will go directly to Phambili, which is also just fine with me. Maybe consider that. :)
If you want more information, just shoot me an e-mail!
Also, I would love for you to "like" the facebook page for either Reach Africa or Phambili (just click their names to follow the link!) for access to pictures and videos and stories of our students. I will be sharing many stories of transformation and rehabilitation on those pages over the next few weeks.
They will have the same content. One is just geared toward America and one toward South Africa. Good luck picking. :)
You see? I like it when my people have options.
And now, I would like to share a poem with you that was written by Zoleka. We allow the students to share a talent at graduation, and Zoleka's reading of this poem that she wrote about her mother's death really touched me.
I wish you could have heard it coming from her, but I didn't bring my video camera. Amy Fail. Also, writing a poem in your second language? Insane.
I don't know if you should be thanking me or if I should be thanking you....
Either way, you can find a link to set that up in the "Joining my Support Team" tab if you are interested. Reach Africa, Inc is a USA non-profit that effectively exists to process US donations to Phambili ngeThemba, and your donations will be tax deductible in the same way they have been at BCF.
If you want it to get to me, you'll either have to let me know that you donated it or you'll need to give directly through the razoo site where they allow you to type in a designation. Otherwise the money will go directly to Phambili, which is also just fine with me. Maybe consider that. :)
If you want more information, just shoot me an e-mail!
Also, I would love for you to "like" the facebook page for either Reach Africa or Phambili (just click their names to follow the link!) for access to pictures and videos and stories of our students. I will be sharing many stories of transformation and rehabilitation on those pages over the next few weeks.
They will have the same content. One is just geared toward America and one toward South Africa. Good luck picking. :)
You see? I like it when my people have options.
And now, I would like to share a poem with you that was written by Zoleka. We allow the students to share a talent at graduation, and Zoleka's reading of this poem that she wrote about her mother's death really touched me.
I wish you could have heard it coming from her, but I didn't bring my video camera. Amy Fail. Also, writing a poem in your second language? Insane.
This too will pass away
If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me
No matter how heavy my heart is
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all my world crashing about me
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true
That "darkness will fade with the morning"
And that this will pass away too
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear
For there is no night without dawn
And I know that my morning is near
If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me
No matter how heavy my heart is
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all my world crashing about me
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true
That "darkness will fade with the morning"
And that this will pass away too
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear
For there is no night without dawn
And I know that my morning is near