Can you imagine what it is like to be in your final term at school when you have no parents to support you?

Nursing Sister Grace has been encouraging pupils preparing for their final exams by providing them with new Matrix polo shirts.

The Waterberg Trust finds sponsorship for Sister Grace to be employed as a school nurse and equips all schoolgirls in the area with washable eco-sanitary pads so they do not miss lessons.

“I attend to various problems in the community ranging from gender-based violence and child neglect to youth who are abusing drugs but are willing to quit.” She is helping a fourteen year-old schoolgirl who fell pregnant after being raped and traumatised.

If you would like to support this amazing work, The Waterberg Trust can receive donations in a number of different ways specified on this website here and via Justgiving. You can specify how you would like your money to be spent.

Thanks to kind donors in the UK, The Waterberg Trust still funds the purchase of basic food parcels for twenty-five individuals in the area. Between March 2020 and March 2023, Sister Grace distributed a total of 644 food parcels to desperate families. Many people afflicted by hunger have been fed.

CHALLENGES:

• Increased food prices
• Dysfunctional families neglect their children and fail to enroll them at school which results in substance abuse and theft with kids roaming the streets.
• Some foreigners are turned away from the local clinic without being given treatment.

Sister Grace reaches out to those in need in the Waterberg by supporting the chronically ill and collecting medication for those at risk of defaulting on their HIV/AIDS and TB treatment.

PROGRESS:

• Children continue to receive balanced meals at school.
• Social Relief Grants to help sustain needy South African families.
• Social clubs loan money to small businesses.
• Youth-friendly activities are available such as netball, drama and choir festivals.
• Shambala Private Game reserve assists the community with food and shelter.

Many thanks to local donors for ongoing support, clothes, sanitary pads and stationery for the less privileged in schools and creches.