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Xmas 2025 newsletter
First of all, !!We wish you and your loved ones a blessed Christmas and a very healthy 2026!! We have sent everyone who made a donation this year a 2026 calendar and a Heart for Children keyring. Please let me know if you did not receive this. Health is important, as...
Office closed from 15 Nov to 2 Dec
Dear friends, just a quick note to say we are on leave from 15 Nov until 2 Dec & office is closed. Please remember our new project in your prayers & thoughts: https://heartforchildren.co.za/2025/10/15/update-kingdom-legae-safehouse-for-neglected-children/ Many...
Update: Kingdom Legae safehouse for neglected children
Further to our previous newsletter, click to read: Spring News!! | Heart for Children we just want to give you an update on the progress of the building of the two safe homes for abandoned and neglected children in Bethanie (North-West): To begin with: the roof is...
Spring News!!
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...
Heart for Children News 04.07.2025
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,...
Great News. The canvas enclosure for the Guardians of Hope children’s home is finished!
Piictured from left to right are Elaine Brenkman, Philip Nicholson and Dirk Brenkman
Hope is what we do…..
Recently I read in a leaflet from another charity: ‘HOPE is what we do…’ That sentence stuck with me. ‘HOPE is what we do’, expresses exactly what we also stand for! Heart for Children is about action, about doing! Helping children wherever possible, so that they can...
Appeal 2025
In a previous newsletter from ‘Heart for Children’ we informed you that this year we want to help ‘Guardians of Hope’ in East London who are taking care of orphaned and/or abandoned babies and small children. We received the following letter of appeal from Philip...
It is time for Christmas carols!
In the past we used to send all our donors and sponsors a small gift around this time of the year, usually a CD with Christmas songs and carols, hoping in turn to get an (extra) donation for the children and the ministry. Afterall, Christmas is the season of giving!!...
Heart for Children Newsletter 24.10.2024
Newsletter: Heart for Children 24/10/2024 Isaiah 40:31: “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” We know this promise by Yahweh to the...
Finished!!!
I am sure that you are aware of the project that we had embarked upon for the Rehoboth Children's Village. I am so proud to report that all the work that we set out to do to make the Rehoboth Children's Village less dependent on Eskom power, has now been finalized....
Feedback of our help to the Rehoboth Children’s Village
It has been a while since we gave you some feedback. First, before I forget again: Alfons and Yvonne van Galien of the Rehoboth Children’s Village would like to personally thank each donor and sponsor of Heart for Children that contributed to the R200000 that we...
From the desk of Henry: Easter 2024
When I think of Easter, I picture Jesus having to go down the Via Dolorosa, a public spectacle of humiliation, pain, and suffering. There was no other way (Luke 22:42). He had to make sure that our faith would be perfected so we would be able to fearlessly stand up...
R200000!!!!
We did it!!! Altogether we collected R200000 for the solar/gas project for the Rehoboth Children’s Village in Murchison near Port Shepstone. On behalf of the children of the village, I would like to thank everyone who helped us to realize this fantastic goal....
Reminder: Tax year ends 29/02/2024
Did you read our latest newsletter? If not, you can click here: Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! | Heart for Children We are still waiting a bit to see if we can reach the R100000 mark for the Rehoboth Children’s Village which would then be doubled by Hart voor...
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
On behalf of the children in the Rehoboth Children’s Village in Murchison, KZN, (nearby Port Shepstone), I just want to say: thank you, thank you, thank you! We received a terrific response from you to our request to help this orphanage to beat ESKOM loadshedding...
Radio Sonder Grense helps Heart for Children!
RSG (Radio sonder Grense) was kind enough to give us an interview to tell something about Heart for Children and our current project. Click on the triangle to listen to the broadcast:
Hart voor Kinderen (NL) built a school in Uganda!
Take a moment to look at the video below, where celebrations were held after the finishing of “The Caring Heart” school in Uganda (project by Hart voor Kinderen NL). You see my brother Louis and sister-in-law Erna being engaged in various activities and customs. I...
Showers of Blessings!
In June this year, we celebrated 15 years of Heart for Children! Amazing, all this time, for me and Annette to be serving the children and the mothers in the homes that received support from us and to appreciate all the thank-you notes that we received from them....
Heart for Children: Summer Appeal
Heart for Children is asking you to prayerfully consider helping with the project for the orphans in KZN that we have embarked upon. The Rehoboth Children’s Village near Port Shepstone in KZN is an orphanage with 21 homes with surrogate mothers taking care of more...
Heart for Children Gift Shop
As discussed before, as a way to collect some extra income for Heart for Children, we would like to let you know about the Heart for Children Gift Shop. Either by buying items for yourself or as gifts for others (Christmas!), with the profit that we make you are also...
NEWSLETTER: SPRING 2023
Dear Friend We have both been quite a bit under the weather this winter with serious ailments, so we apologize for being late in giving you some feedback on the ministry. As reported earlier on the safe house for children in Nelmapius, the roof was repaired, a ceiling...
Tax certificates
It is that time of the year again where we have to do our taxes. Fortunately, your contributions to Heart for Children are tax deductible! Heart for Children is a Public Benefit Organization, PBO no. 930030392. Please let me know if you did not receive your tax...
The roof is finished!
You will recall our project to provide for a new roof for the children's home here in Nelmapius? Click here: Heart for Children (Autumn 2023) | Bread on the water
Good Tidings!
I have some wonderful news! You will remember that in our previous newsletter we had asked for some special financial assistance to get the roof repaired of the "Share tears and grow" safehouse for abandoned and abused children here in Nelmapius? We had some wonderful...
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