The Waterberg Trust funds the salary of school nurse, Sister Grace who is based at one of the secondary schools but gets out into the community to address challenges and distribute items donated by local churches.

She tells us, ‘I provide basic health care in form of home visits, checking up on psychosocial wellbeing of orphaned children.’

Sister Grace helped six students pay for their Matric uniforms and passed on donations to the No Drugs and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center which admitted four youths from Vaalwater willing to quit substance abuse. She continues to help at the Addiction Recovery Course at the Farmers’ Hall in the heart of the Waterberg, providing tea and light snacks.

Sister Grace reports:

• Dysfunctional families tend to neglect their own children.
• Overcrowded family dwellings mean children are exposed to communicable diseases such as scabies infections. ‘One household has four people infected with TB. Two are children below the age of two, who are on treatment.’ Sister Grace carries out adherence counseling and provides the family with a food parcel financed by The Waterberg Trust.
• The Social Relief Grant can be misused for alcohol leaving children without food.

However, there is progress:

• School children eat meals from school feeding schemes on daily basis
• There are job creation schemes for youth on local farms and lodges or keeping the town clean and maintaining roads.
• Different Political parties handed out food and winter wear during the election campaign.
• 26 needy people currently benefit from food parcels funded by The Waterberg Trust. Some are school drop-outs or single mums with children to support.

Sister Grace continues to help those lacking food, clothes, school uniform, bedding and by supporting chronically ill patients.

Many thanks to our donors who make this work possible.

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