Let us help the children!

As spring brings new life, it’s also a time to reflect on children without homes or families. You will recall from our previous newsletter: Heart for Children News 04.07.2025 | Heart for Children that we were considering a new project to help abused and abandoned children. In this respect we had been approached by Fani Manganye and his wife Sinah of the Kingdom Fellowship church in Bethanie (near Brits). We are old friends from more than 20 years ago. They had already started with the construction of two safe homes for children on the church premises and asked for help from Heart for Children. During our first meetings they had informed us that neglect of children in the North-West province was very common and that as teachers they had to deal with this almost on a daily basis. 

After the special support and well wishes that we received from our donors and supporters, and after prayerful consideration, Annette and I decided to go ahead with this project. We visited Fani and Sinah again on 27/7/2025. We had been invited to first attend the service of the church in the Losperfontein prison where Fani also ministers; this turned out to be a big blessing for us (Fani is indeed a very inspiring preacher and teacher!). After this, the Memorandum of Understanding between Heart for Children and Kingdom Fellowship was tabled and signed. The beginning of our official partnership was celebrated with some flowers for the ladies (see picture above) and a special lunch prepared by Sinah! We are confident that God will prepare a way for us for the benefit of the children in the North-West.

As a result of donations received during the past 2 months, we were already able to finance the construction of the roof for the two homes. The building of the roof has now started!! See pictures below.

The second phase of this project is to finish the interior of the houses such as flooring, ceilings, the plumbing, the lighting and the electricity on the inside. We are hoping and praying for contributions from you and the general public for this project. 

Also, if you live in the North-West or in Gauteng, and if you are able to help us with anything for the homes, like good and durable furniture, appliances that are still in good working condition, kitchen utensils, bedding, or anything else that you can think of, we will make a plan to come and fetch this. Fani has offered the use of his bakkie for this purpose. This would most probably have to be during a weekend. 

Any donation and any help will be much appreciated. To make a donation now, please click here:

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If you can assist in spreading this newsletter to anyone you think can help us, please do so! Our contact details are below.

We wish you a lovely Spring Day and God’s richest blessings for the season ahead!

Annette Pool, e-mail: annette.pool@gmail.com, cel. 0834696875

Henry Pool, e-mail: henrypool@breadonthewater.co.za, cel. 0836297690

Fani Manganye, e-mail: manganyefp@gmail.com, cel. 0647242364

Dear Friend!

How time is flying! I cannot believe we are already past the halfway mark of 2025. First, on behalf of all the children, we want to thank you again for your regular support to Heart for Children!

We have just distributed all the 18a tax certificates, which may qualify you for a reduction on your income tax liability.  If you did not receive the certificate or if you think that not all your contributions from 1/3/2024 to 28/02/25 were reflected, please contact us via e-mail: henrypool7@gmail.com and we will rectify this.

We are so proud of the terrific result of our last campaign when we were able to provide the baby & small children’s shelter “Guardians of Hope” with a canvas enclosure to beat the East-London wind! The enclosed space serves as a play area for the children + meeting place for prospective foster parents. See picture above.

During this month, one of our board members, Johan Vos, head of ‘Victory for All’ in the Jeffreys Bay area, has requested financial support to provide new winter clothes for the children at the 8 foster homes in Humansdorp.  Due to your continued support, we are able to allocate R10000 for this purpose.

Picture and video: Johan Vos from ‘Victory for All’ with one of the foster children after she came back from hospital.

For more about “Victory for All”, see:

Victory4All · Breaking the spiral of poverty for children in South Africa.

Foster homes · Victory4All

We would also like to inform you that we are considering a new project in line with our objective, namely the support of abused and abandoned children. In this regard, we received a request from Fani Manganye (pictured left) and his wife Sinah (pictured right). They established the Kingdom Fellowship church in Bethanie (near Brits) and have always shown a strong commitment to supporting homeless children within their community. They have started with the construction of two safe homes for children on the church premises. Annette and I visited Fani and Sinah on 25 May 2025 and we were touched by the fact that all the expenses for the finished church buildings and now also the safe homes mostly came from their own salaries as teachers.

The name that Sinah has suggested for the children’s shelter is ‘Kingdom Legae’. Annette and I propose that Heart for Children provides financial support to Fani and Sinah of Kingdom Fellowship in realizing their dream to provide this shelter for homeless children. The assistance from Heart for Children would be subject to certain conditions. We expect that this major project will require about a year of fundraising. Let us pray for a miracle again! Will you help us? Anything you can do to help us with this project will be much appreciated. Businesspeople or individuals interested in giving specific support or assistance are most welcome to visit. Please contact Fani on 0647242364 for an appointment.

Wishing you God’s richest blessings,

Henry and Annette Pool

0836297690 or 0834696875

henrypool7@gmail.com or annette.pool@gmail.com

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