During this month a beautiful big colour printer/copier/scanner machine was donated by Executive Rentals, as well as 3 boxes of printer paper from Sappi. Many, many thanks to all concerned.

Early on in the year we welcomed a gorgeous little girl who turned a year old just days after she arrived. She was dedicated at church on her birthday. PHOTOS Baby D being dedicated to our Lord and Master.

Lynne & Sonia are extremely grateful to Kurt and Janine Smith for affording us the opportunity to take 4 days off to relax at Champagne Valley. We really had a wonderful, fun-filled and relaxing time away. PHOTOS Nanny at the Nelson Mandela Capture Site near Howick. The Chalet at Champagne Valley View of Drakensberg from bedroom window Nanny after scoring a hole-in-one at put-put

At the end of December Sonia’s sister, Sylvia and her friend Betty came for a visit from Brakpan. We took a little time away from Hope House to take the ladies to various places of interest in and around Durban, so we like holiday-makers in our home town. PHOTOS Some photos of the ladies having fun.

A HUGE thank you to all the wonderful volunteers and donors who gave our little ones Christmas gifts. Here are some of them enjoying opening their presents and playing with the paper.

Kim Pretorius hosted a dinner evening at her home where she invited 28 couples. Instead of paying for their meal, they were invited to make donations to Hope House and the grand sum of R6700 was raised. Thank you so much to all the friends who were so generous.

The Simply Models modelling school put on a Mr & Miss Dream Teen Modelling competition at Benjamin Pine Primary School to help raise funds for Hope House. R5000 was raised and lots of various items were also received. Many, many thanks for a lovely show and your generosity. PHOTOS OF MODELLING Photos of various models doing their thing for Hope House.

During December we received several donations of goodies to help give our kiddies the best Christmas possible. Several cash donations were also received. Eden College kindly and very generously donated all their fund-raising money for 2015 to Hope House – an amount of R12,000 was handed over. Thank you so very much! PHOTOS 1.Seen here are a group of staff members from BPL with the bags of items their company donated. 2. Charmaine and her ‘merry men and women’ also blessed

All of our children visited the Grace Place Christmas Market in December and were a big hit.