A guest post by Rachel Lewis, beautifully expressing her experience as a foster mother and the importance of attachment.
The Story of TLC Volunteers: Triumphs and Trials
Being a volunteer at an orphanage can be gruelling, testing you to your emotional, physical and spiritual limits. Being thrust into the responsibility of caring for 30-40 needy babies, with limited resources and long hours is exhausting. So why do our volunteers stay?
A Child of TLC Gives Back, Years Later
The passionate appeal of one of our TLC babies, all grown up, raised thousands of rands for TLC and gave us a sense of hope that our work bears great fruit.
A Letter to the Babies from a Volunteer
Dear beautiful little babies, I am one of the volunteers that took time out of my life at home to help care for you…
A Response to the Mindless Magistrate
Manager of TLC Children’s Home, Joanna Jones writes an emotional response to the many bureaucratic injustices that are experienced in dealing with the little lives that get caught in an inefficient system
Why should I give, even when it all looks ‘OK’?
Give, with the assurance that we are supporting a family who made the difficult decision to give up everything to make it better – so we don’t have to…
The brutal, beautiful tragedy
There is something both beautiful and tragic about working in an orphanage, but it’s certainly a worthwhile task…
It takes a village to raise a child
Our belief is that it takes a village to raise a child, and our ‘global village’ is helping us raise children with dignity…
Bring Power To The Little People!
We need to raise R300,000 to keep our lights on! Read more and share…
