Seed Of Hope

This post should have been posted a lot sooner than now but I've been a little distracted, getting engaged an' all ... Eeeek!!!!

So my final week in South Africa was spent with this charity, Seed Of Hope. This charity has it's own building where they hold an after school club, a clinic with a HIV testing and counseling room, a sewing room to teach people skills. They are very community based and go out into the community everyday, cant quite remember what exactly it is they do when visiting people but it makes a difference in peoples lives all the same. 

I was only spending three days with Seed Of Hope due to one day being a bank holiday and the other traveling back home. The three days I was there were not exactly my favourite out of the four weeks. I spent the whole time painting!!! ..... They needed their sewing room decorating and therefore that was mine and Dans job. I had to keep telling and reminding myself that even though painting is pretty boring and not what I paid £900 to do I was helping them and doing it would allow them to help the people they help.

  

Dan being there was a total blessing. The weather was rubbish, it was cold and rainy and after a few hours painting I was feeling pretty miserable. So having him around definitely lifted my spirits. On the first day, Dan too was getting a little fed up and so we spent an hour or so playing outside with the children. They LOVED Dan, they took great pleasure in climbing on him, pulling his hair, his nose and his ears. It was so lovely .. and funny .. to watch.

I would love to be able to go back to Seed Of Hope in the future and experience more of what they do. Hopefully one day we, me and Dan, will pay another visit.......