Bonani Hope Center

In Kalinyanga, a small, impoverished village in the rural Eastern Cape of South Africa, “Mama” Ayanda started offering a hot meal to the children from her village a few years ago. The soup kitchen became more and more a place of refuge for children and young people from the surrounding area, as there is very little to do for them in the community. This is in part due to a lot of poverty and unemployment here. In 2019, the Bonani Hope Center project was founded with the help of Lunathi Joubert and now helps about 40 children between the ages of six and 15 years.

In the meantime, the project has expanded and now offers hot meals three times a week. In addition, there are baking classes in which delicious pastries such as muffins and cookies are baked on a regular basis. For the first time in 2022, school uniforms and writing materials could be bought for the children to start school. This is often a major financial hurdle for poor families, which sometimes prevents them from attending school. Almost every afternoon, the kids get together for dance groups in which choreographies are rehearsed and either performed on Sundays in the surrounding church communities or at other festivals in the village. The team spirit and especially the creative expression through music and dance is very beneficial for the children and young people. Through home visits, the Bonani team also tries to encourage and support the families of the kids who participate. Often it is grandparents or adult siblings who take care of the children, as the parents move to the big cities in search of work and they need a lot of positive influence in the challenging task of raising their children.

Our missionaries Justine and Marco Spalke were in Kalinyanga for the first time in 2007 and since then we have a good relationship with the project leaders Ayanda and Lunathi Joubert, who also grew up in the area. So it was an obvious next step for our organisation to support the Bonani project by entering a partnership agreement. We are excited to see how this great work will develop further.

News about the Bonani project.

We are delighted to welcome African Leadership Germany as a donor to the Bonani project! The organization has made it possible for us to build this huge greenhouse in the Eastern Cape. This means that around 60 children and the community can be supplied with fresh vegetables every day. The Bonani project is a collaboration with Hands and Feet and CBN Cape Town. Even before the greenhouse was built, the Bonani team was already running a vegetable garden, but the huge tunnel has enabled them to expand the cultivation area considerably. The size and the more controlled environment mean that many more people can now be fed from Bonani vegetables. We are grateful to God for this provision and look forward to more growth!

HOSA e.V.

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HOSA e.V.

Wegbereiter für Hoffnungsbringer

HOSA e.V.

Hallo! 👋 

Wie können wir Dir helfen?

21:27