Last week our third parenting course graduated! This time with 23 graduates. Parents from the local community attend the course following referrals or on their own initiative to improve their parenting skills. All the sessions are run by our Family Preservation team lead by Social Worker, Nodumo Ndengezi. Topics include positive parenting and discipline, children's rights and parental problem solving. Parents also learn God's heart for parents and for children. Next month we hope to include a special module on helping parents disclose their own and their child's HIV status to their children.
The hard work and dedication of the children (and the wonderful green fingered staff members who encourage, remind, organise and equip them!) is paying off! Yes - the food garden is producing a plentiful harvest for our kitchen. So much so, that it saves our shopping bill and we hope it will be able to expand even further! In reality, many people make the food garden happen - Thank you to sponsors such as Lerato's Hope and Willow Creek and volunteers like those from the Auditor General's Office who helped us break new ground, clean up the beds and even mended some irrigation pipes! Thanks to all who have invested in this project and continue to do so. For BG, it's a sustainable step in the right direction...
Yes! Aya is going to a home of his own. As some of you might remember Aya, (now his second name after he was renamed by his new adoptive parents) was found abandoned outside Cape Town in December last year and placed with us at Beautiful Gate. With no family coming forward after months of searching and advertising in the City newspapers, he has been embraced by a loving family who were able to take him home last week! This is a very special moment for us all to see the process of love redeeming his precious existence. While we hear regularly of children being abandoned in our City, we are so glad that Aya now has a family of his own! 
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