Philippi Trust, OVC

In 2005, Philippi Trust where I was studying counselling at the time introduced a new program. It was a camp program for Orphans an Vulnerable children. The first time I heard about it, was when the director at the time had just got back from a trip to the Eastern Cape and came to tell our dipoma class about his experience. I felt immediately in the deep side of me that Holger should get involved... this sounded like the kind of thing he carried in his heart.

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Fostercare is a dirty word!

I have not blogged in a while. It has been a crazy year that was filled with curve balls thrown at me and I was not always ready to bat. However, I am still in the game! We are working with an organisation called Kin Culture and recently in collaboration with other foster/adoption organisations they launched the first ever WORLD FOSTER DAY. The effort and the work done to promote it was amazing and I was blown away after years of working on Child Protection Week and other children’s campaign initiatives, how far this small little team were able to come and what they achieved. However, for me this day, this launch and this story was very difficult for me. I was not sure at first what was going on in me. I realised however at some point that I was in trouble, when by the famous May 31, 2018 in the early hours of the morning I found myself in a ball of tears at my dining room table after watching a clip that had been aired on National television a...

We are Kay and Holger Lorentz, and our journey as missionaries began in 1991 with several YWAM Schools. After our wedding in 1995, we spent a total of four years in Texas. Since 2000 we have been back in South Africa, where our work has had different focuses, but the central focus has always been on working with and for children in need. In 2014 we joined Globe Mission, and registered our Mercy Aids ministry as an NPO in South Africa. Kay has furthered her studies, gaining a diploma in counselling and specialising in adult education in cross-cultural spaces. We continue to learn new things that add to the toolbox we have for the work we do. Currently we are involved in training adults in a variety of contexts, working in schools, supporting soup kitchens, gardening and other activities that promote, strengthen and support care for children in its broadest sense. For most of this time we were supported by individuals, churches, and organizations. Our chil...

Patricia, camps and developing training

Regina died at the end of 2007 and with her went our dreams of a bigger work for OVC in the Mfuleni area. We tried for a while to knock on different doors to see if it was possible to keep on without her, but kept hitting dead ends. At the end of 2007 we heard about Patricia. Here I think it is important to note that the entire time we were looking to get funding to take work in Fisantekraal to a new level. Especially with OVC work. We had started a nutritional support program for people battling a terminal illness. When I met Patricia we immediately kicked off a a relationship. We were able to stay involved with Nondumiso in Mfuleni and at the same time work with Patricia in Du Noon. Our dream to come a long side a organisation that works with OVC but struggling kept us involved in Mfuleni. We got involved with Patricia at the same time, she had an amazing heart for OVC and for people suffering with HIV. It was in these years that I was working out t...

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