Eight toddlers will leave the lower campus and move
up to Emseni #1. Then 12 little girls
will move to Emseni #3 and four little boys will move to Emseni #2 (both from
Emseni #1). Three boys left Emseni
#2 and moved up with the big boys
at Emseni #4, and 28 big girls will move from Emseni #3 to the brand new, and
beautiful Emseni #5!
Kuthula place now is
home to 12 babies (4-days-old to 6-months-old). The El Roi Baby home
is now home to 38 babies (6-months to 18-months). The Toddler home is
now home to 41 x 2-year-olds and there are 163 children living up on the Emseni
Campus.
We received two new babies
this week, both boys, both from tragic situations. One of the boys was born on Tuesday and left
in the forest, only to be found by strangers and taken to the police. The other
baby is 2-months-old and his mother strangled his 3-year-old sister and dumped
her body in to a pit latrine (outhouse), only to be found 8-months later. Just when I think I have heard it all, a new
story comes to us.
While we thoroughly
enjoyed our 30-day trip to North America, I can’t adequately express how good
it is to be home! There is nothing like
being mobbed by the sweetest little boys and girls and hearing stories from the
older kids of things we missed.
We will be welcoming
our last volunteer team of the year on Monday. They will be here to help us put
up our Christmas tree, decorate the dining hall, ice cookies and wrap Christmas
pajamas for our children. Would you
consider joining us next year at this time to celebrate HOPE with the children
and staff at Project Canaan? There is no time like the present to start saving
and planning!
Don’t forget to check
out www.khutsala.com for your Thanksgiving and Christmas
shopping! We have lots of beautiful new
product that helps us continue to employee artisans and give them a hope for
their future.
Live from Eswatini …
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends!
Janine
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