Lighthouse Children's Shelter, Sunday, 1/4/09

We were thrilled to see the beautiful new facilities for the HIV/AIDS shelter for children in Rustenburg. This is where Judy volunteered 2001-2002. Judy's heart almost burst as we saw the babies who are still on the nevaripine program. None of these babies have developed AIDS and so could be adopted. This beautiful lady is Nomhle Mputle, managing director. She was at the shelter when I worked there. We hugged for a long time. Sadly, they now have 5 older children who were not on the program and are HIV positive. These children are hard to place for adoption.

Before the shelter visit, we attended the Bethany Christian Centre in Thlbane. This was the Tswana church that Judy attended when in town. Both Phil and Judy spoke and gave greetings to the congregation. It was thrilling to see folks from 6 years ago.