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...

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. ...

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...

Lorentz Family Journey

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