August 2018

Dear Friends, August saw the start of warmer weather with the odd spat of cold. We have had a mild winter so far. The children broke up from school at the beginning of the month but Lozi and Collin have had extra lessons at school during these holidays. Keturah did Read more

July 2018

Dear Friends, Well we have booked and paid for our air tickets to the UK and we will leave Swaziland on the 1 November returning to Swaziland on the 3 December. We are really excited about the holiday and we are looking forward to the break and time with our Read more

June 2018

Dear Friends, We have had a busy month this June, with the Mbabane Woolworth’s community service team coming in and painting our staff cottage kitchen and then the Beyond Survival team from USA coming in and painting the outside of the staff cottage. We are so grateful to these 2 Read more

Febuary 2018

Dear Friends, It has been very busy this past month, as we do nightshift with the twins plus all our normal day duties. We have worked out a good routine with Gerry doing the nightshift one night and Robyn doing the nightshift the next night and then we each get Read more

November 2017

Dear Friends, This month has seen a few ‘good-byes’ for us at ABC. After 2 weeks in our home, Zweli was transferred to his permanent Child Care Home on the 3rd. On the 8th we received a desperate call from Social Welfare to help with an emergency placement of a Read more

October 2017

Dear Friends, It has been another busy month for us at ABC. We were asked to take in an emergency placement little boy. Zweli, who turned 3 years old on the 25th October. He has been discriminated against, badly abused and beaten by his grandfather. Robyn agreed to this placement Read more

September 2017

Dear Friends, This month we are introducing our newest member of the family, Poppy. She was born on the 15 September and we fetched her from the hospital on the 16th. So after 20 months of no new babies in the home, we are back into nightshift duty, 3 hourly Read more

August 2017

Dear Friends, August has been a good month for us. It started off with Gerry and Robyn taking a week’s break to South Africa as Robyn attended her class of ’74, 60th birthday celebrations on the 5th. We took time out to visit our dear friends Heather and Andy on Read more

June- july 2017

Dear Friends, We realised that we had not done a JUNE newsletter and we apologise for that. We have been really busy this July month and normally the newsletter is written at the end of the month but somehow was overlooked in June. We are trying to put a newsletter Read more

May 2017

Dear Friends, Winter is well upon us and we have had our first frosts for the season this month. The children had colds and runny noses and a few had a 24 hour tummy bug which made them all miserable. Emmanuel, Lucy and Isaac have been teething as well, so Read more