On our arrival in Hamilton, (those of you who have been following this blog from the beginning will know) we were immensely grateful to the folks who donated furniture, whiteware, cutlery and linen etc to be dished out to new arrivals who were waiting for their containers to arrive from across the ocean. When our container arrived, we of course were no longer residing in Hamilton and had brought all the 'donations' down to Wanganui with us. Since our new friends Annelien and Carel Botha visited us here and offered to take things back to Hamilton for us, we managed to return most of the things to be 'recycled' to the next family of 'destitutes'. However, the double bed just wouldn't fit into their car - nor the tumble dryer for that matter, so it was decided that we could hang on to these items until a similar scheme could be established here.
With SAMCA (South African Mid Central Association) now launched, we are in the process of finding storage space for just such items and this picture is to celebrate the first donation to this project - our 'garage for destitutes' stuff with a few additions are loaded onto the trailer in front of our new home in Springvale and all ready to be re-allocated to the next family who needs them.
Pictured here from the left - Stefan, Jo, Mauritz and Pierre.
The extra space in our garage is much appreciated!
Dis al!
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