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BLUE BAGS FOR THAMBAZIMBA<br />
Debby and Paul Schwengler along with Mark and Deborah Schwengler visited the Thambazimba orphanage<br />
in South Africa where they humbly delivered two blue bags for the boy and girl divisions of the orphanage.<br />
The orphanage was home to 18 boys and 16 girls and is sustained by local hunt farms in the area who<br />
provide wild game meat that hunters have harvested.<br />
Staff at the orphanage ensure the children go to school on a consistent basis, and they also arrange for<br />
tutors to come in twice a week to help those that have fallen behind. Some of the children fall behind<br />
in their learning as they have not received any form of schooling until such time as they arrived at the<br />
orphanage.<br />
By the age of eighteen educators endeavour to enrol the youth into technical training where they can<br />
benefit from on the job training and begin earning an income. Financial management life skills are also<br />
encouraged by way of staff assisting the youth in setting up savings accounts so that they can secure funds<br />
to aide in the purchase of their own home. At the time the Schwengler’s visited there were three students<br />
who were working but still had to come back to the orphanage to sleep and eat.<br />
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