Graceland serves the poorer farming community in the outskirts of Stellenbosh by providing a preschool to stimulate over 60 children who might otherwise be left at home alone or on the streets.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

May News

This past month we have been blessed by three separate amazing donations:

Firstly, our local hotel, The Devon Valley Hotel, presented us with a cheque which is made up of proceeds from their Giving Room Initiative (www.devonvalleyhotel.com/csr.php). It’s a fantastic initiative where every night that Room 53 of the hotel is occupied, 10% of the revenue is given to us!!! So if you are looking for accommodation in the Stellenbosh area you know where to go!!!! 




On top of that they blessed the children with Easter eggs and in June one of their employees, Marilize Stander, is going to be walking an amazing 796km across the Pyrenees from France to Spain to raise money for us. Thank you Marilize! - If you'd like to sponsor Marilize for her efforts you can do so here. You can also follow her progress on her blog here.





The children really did do very well over Easter as they also received Easter present boxes His People Church in Cape town and Ronel from Kuilsriver provided a big cupboard and some toys for the children. We can never have enough storage and the children are having a fantastic time exploring the new toys.