Home from Home

This is our very valuable associate, a child-protection agency which manages and guides over 30  foster homes  In the Cape. They have from the first beginnings of the Trust assisted and advised us.

Their principal method of setting up and running a foster home has been used as a pilot program by the SA Social Service Department. The steering committee of the trust meets monthly with members of HFH. Our foster mother is regularly visited by HFH Social Worker and is  invited to attend once a month a workshop given by HFH for all the foster mothers.

IbhongoTrust  – Netherlands

This trust was established to assist the SFOT with the management and building of the “Homes to Grow”. The founders are Con and Germa Zeijen. Con is a highschool teacher who had hoped to start a nurturing connection between his class and one from Masiphumelele High School.

Germa concentrated on the” Homes to Grow”. Germa is a child psychologist and a very talented artist, who creates amazing sculptures and vibrant paintings.

St Peter’s Episcopal Church, Arlington Virginia,USA

In 2009 through one of our trustees Diana and her husband Robert we connected with St Peter’s Mission team.  Anna Fernau initiated interest and was the leader of a very dynamic and faith-driven group who arrived in Simon’s Town in August 2011 and visited our 2010 established “Home to Grow” with 27 parishioners.

The group has not stopped working for us and raising funds for the building of our second home.  They  arrived again in August 2014 to work on both houses, play with our children, teach them and take them on outings.

St Francis of Assisi Church – Simon’s Town

We receive spiritual guidance and continued support from our church, the first Anglican Church in South Africa.  The parish celebrated its 200 year anniversary in 2014 with a variety of events.