FOOD HAMPERS FOR ORPHANED FAMILIES Our last food parcel distribution for 2010 was done on the 15th December 2010 at our centre. Each family received double groceries which included variety of Christmas goodies and ensuring that the items given to families will last them until our next distribution in mid- January 2011. Due to time, as the Care workers were preparing to travel to their homeland to spend holidays with their families, children decided to have a farewell party for gogo Caslina’s twins as they were relocating to Natal. We then decided to have lunch with everyone at (...)

Toiletries for children and teenagers We have bought toiletries for 50 young children and 28 teenagers. The toiletries that were distributed amongst young children included a tub of Vaseline, bath soaps, tooth paste, school shoe polish and for teenagers it included, bottle of body lotion, glycerin, toothbrush, toothpaste, roll-on deodorants, body spray, sanitary towels and shoe polishes. Children were so excited to receive the parcels and we decided that for teenagers we would give them toiletries that would last them for 3 months including 4 packets of sanitary towels for girls. The (...)

COSMETICS 30 school going teenagers received their first cosmetics for the year 2009, which include body lotions, glycerin, 2 x bath soaps, 2 x roll-ons, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, school shoe polishes x 2, sanitary towels for girls. And children and grandmothers each has received 340ml tub of Vaseline lotion, toothpaste, toothbrush, 2 x bath soaps, 2 x shoe polish for school going children and roll-ons. The distribution came during the month when Community based organizations in Alexandra embarked on a massive campaign to keep our environment clean and primary and high (...)

From: Alex Aids Orphans Project Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 6:08 AM To: Norma Geggie Subject: Re: the gogos Dear Norma, Thank you so much for your e-mail, I have received letters for gogos last Saturday, which were delivered to Sparrow. Through the mail, I have received the News Bulletin for June 2009 from the Wakefield Grannies. And thank you so much, i have loved the new project of knitting enchanted slippers; they look so nice and warm. Grannies were celebrating their birthday last Wednesday and they had a big party, lunch was served, followed by cakes and sweets. I bought each (...)

— -Original Message----- Sent: November 26, 2008 Subject: Christmas Food Hampers for Gogos and their Families Dear fellow Wakefield Grannies, I wrote to Diana in Alex sometime ago about sending Christmas Hampers and have yet to hear back. In the meantime Felicity and I have consulted each other on numerous occasions and also recognized the fact that even putting hampers together is a lot of extra work for the staff at the clinic. Well, once Felicity gets into action, things start to happen. Through family and friends, she has arranged for the Germiston Rotary Club to put (...)

One of the few things more warming than an African Welcome is an Alexandra Gogo Welcome. Lindiwe and Mahlape on the right After weeks of The Wakefield Grannies gathering together letters, photographs, calendars, 60 black canvas shopping bags, Canadian pins, small gifts and not to mention all the beautiful knitted squares that Nina Minde had collected from all her Grannies in Montreal, we finally arrived at the Alexandra Clinic early October, 2007. Rose Letwaba accompanied Nina, some friends and myself and we arrived shortly after the children had returned from school. There sat our (...)

THE BLANKETS 59 blankets were bought from Masco wholesalers in Mid-May2010 and were delivered on the 29 May 2010, during our food distribution. All our families, those headed by grannies and others headed by aunts and youth were very excited to receive the blankets as winter this year is extremely cold. We were very Blessed during the distribution of blankets and groceries that staff members from Standard Bank came to help us with the distribution and each member donated extra groceries to each orphaned families. Grannies and children extended their sincere gratitude and appreciation (...)

Anne Hanggi a friend of the Wakefield Grannies, visited Alex in November 2011, delivered some scarves sent by the Wakefield Grannies and collected some letters from the Alex gogos, which she offered to post on their behalf.