New Bed for Utilia and family

SVDP assisted Utilia

and her family in Diepsloot

with a new Bed.

Feeling a bit tired !

23 March Wednesday Visit

Jacqui Grieves is chatting to Fathers John, Tobias and Cosmos. Father Tobias is from Lesotho and they are attending a religious conference in Pretoria Placid and Bec: Placid lives at Diepsloot Parish and helps with the Wednesday visit.

The parcels being laid out

Some of the children enjoying a snack from the food kindly donated by Spar Fourways Gardens.

This morning Roy Hawkins had the pleasure of showing Sr Notburga, of the Ursuline Sisters, around Diepsloot. We visited the following:

Fr Cosmas, the Diepsloot Parish priest,

The Rikona nga Lufuno school who SSVP are in close association with,

Agrippa at Bona Lesedi, and

the Wednesday visits team at the container in X12.

Thanks Fourways Spar!

A Big thank you to Fourways Spar for the bakery products that SSVP

give to needy families in Diepsloot.

Craft Classes anyone? - Annette de Vries is a creative and dedicated volunteer who has marvelous skills and ideas for designing various crafts. She has started a craft class every Saturday at our container in Diepsloot. Here we have a great turnout of 8 willing candidates learning to sew and knit together. We wish all who are involved in this project much success and hopefully rolling out items for sale in the near future.

For a number of years now the Bryanston Conference of SSVP has gratefully used one Bona Lesedi‘s containers at their premises in Diepsloot as a food distribution depot. Due to expansion and changes within Bona Lesedi’s organisation it became necessary for SSVP – Bryanston to acquire their own container to store food for distribution from this well established position in Diepsloot. Fortunately Bona Lesedi allowed us precious space to keep our new container at their premises. The process of sourcing, purchase and acquisition of the said container began in mid-2010. It has been a slow process due to a number of hurdles along the way such as quoting most reasonable prices on various sized containers, availability, price increases and decisions thereof, site preparation and changes of situation, delivery co-ordination, quoting for installation of door and windows with sufficient burglar proofing and so on.

Our next steps are to install blinds or curtains and Prepare it for primer where needed and painting in the SSVP light blue colour together with a SSVP logo sign riveted on the side.

Thanks to Absolute Containers for their support of our outreach program by discounting the price of the container.

Soccer anyone? A game in play on the Brescia House field. SSVP's Newton Jackson (referee) is tirelessly keeping things well under control!