BLOG UPDATES – May 2016 3 DONATIONS RECEIVED St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls very generously gave us the money to purchase a new Microwave so that we could place the other one in our cottage for use by volunteers from overseas who will be helping at the home later in the year. A HUGE Thank You to all of you. A group of the Grade 8 girls from St Mary’s School in front of the microwave they so generously paid for from their fund-raising events. We were also recently blesse

NEW ARRIVALS Over the past several months we have welcomed another two baby girls to the Hope House family. With our recent adoptions, we are left with only girls who are an absolute delight. GET-AWAY Lynne & Sonia are extremely grateful to John and Lin Evans for affording us the opportunity to spend a wonderful long weekend at their flat in Umdloti. We really had beautiful weather and thoroughly enjoyed walking along the beach and in the water. Nanny even found a message i

Hope House have had 3 adoptions in 4 weeks. At the beginning of April Madam Mercy was adopted by Tony and Jane Abboud with their daughter Mia. PHOTO The new Abboud family of 4 – Tony, Jane, Mia and Emerie (Mercy) At the end of April our Princess Mbali was adopted by Josh and Shaeline Stromberg with their son Solomon (Owami) who they also adopted from Hope House nearly 3 years ago. PHOTO Josh, Shaeline, Solomon and Ezri (Mbali) – a very happy family of four at last. Last (but

On reflection we have realised that there are a number of people who have helped and supported us over the years and who we have not thanked on our blog or social media. Please forgive us for the oversight. We do wish to acknowledge the following people for their contributions to Baby Hope House for, without your help and support, we would not be where we are today : Vernon, our Chairman, who guides us so well and also for his organisation of fishing competitions, his finan

Several people have asked the question “Why the 2nd birthday when Hope House has been in operation for 9 years now?” Well, here is the explanation : In 2007 Sonia Swinton and Lynne Pieterse accepted the first baby into their care through New Hope Ministry, which was a ministry of the Pinetown Presbyterian Church, counselling women with unplanned pregnancies. In 2008 both ladies registered as Foster Mothers and so the journey began. At that time Sonia owned a nursery school