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Developing a Community Model

As the funding for camps and training came in via Philippi Trust for training and camps in 2009 and 2010 we were able to with Barbara work out a more sustainable community model for growing kid's works at a grass roots level.

Resilient Kids was born in 2009 out of the OVC program of Philippi Trust and shaped very much by the experiences we had had and the encouragement that we were on to something good.  We felt strongly at the time that the model could be adapted by any community wanting to get going with a work for the orphan and vulnerable child in the community.

The model had to do with empowering local community people while equipping them with skill.  We had an amazing opportunity of seeing this happen in the Eastern Cape.

By the end of 2010 we believed that to effectively do this work of training and equipping communities that we needed a training space conducive to this need.  A place where we could therapeutically work with the vulnerable adult and child.

All of 2011 was spent working on a business plan and dream for this place...  while we committed to Geneva Crisis Center in Eersterivier to help it become a safer place for the women and children in their care.

2011 ended with a bit of heartbreak as the land we had set our hearts on in Fisantekraal fell through the cracks and all the work and effort we had put into Geneva Crisis Centre had shifted some of the living conditions of the women and children living there, it was nowhere closer to the dream that had got us involved a year earlier...

Funding for training and camps had all but dried up...

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