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Newsletter 29th March 2022
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Change

Change
by James Sleigh

As we start to move from summer into a new season, as the world grapples with a new crisis, we thought that the theme Change or Embracing Change would be apt for this month.
 
Change brings about an interesting paradox of emotions within us. It is something we both admire and fear. We love the aspects of change that lead to developing, evolving, growing, but our conscious brain fears change, as it spells uncertainty, risk and a loss of control. When we fear being at risk our defence mechanism moves into action, triggering our flight response or resistance.

Growth and development are not possible without change, and it carries with it possibility and potential. When we look back on our lives, times of change usually are times of growth, development and, although often scary, bring about new opportunity. 

For many of our residents, particularly those on the spectrum, fear of change and unpredictability is heightened. This needs to be managed by staff, who in times of change are also grappling with their own responses.

Once we realise that everything is in a constant state of change all the time, and accept that we cannot control what is happening around us, we start to feel liberated, able to accept and embrace what comes to us.

While it is easy to say this in words and memes, the reality is that for most of us accepting change is not easy. It is important to acknowledge that our resistance is often unconscious, and is a form of self-protection. But it is equally important for us to challenge this automatic response and be curious and excited by the opportunities that change can bring. We can apply rationality and logic. Feedback and figures also help manage the fear in times of uncertainty, and can help to reassure the conscious mind that the change is healthy.

In the words of LaoTzu, If we do not change, we may just end up where we are going ...
Market
Our April Camphill Market
by Geornelle de Villiers

If you haven’t attended a Camphill market over the past few months, where have you been? Well on the 3rd April 2022 you can become part of the “IT” group again. Camphill will host its 3rd market of 2022 and we invite you to join us.

We welcome back our regular vendors and are excited to welcome new ones. All our vendors offer different exciting products for you to discover. I once again want to thank all our amazing vendors for turning up every month with their big smiles and even greater spirits, ready to start trading.

At the Camphill stalls our organic dairy products, yummy bakery goods and cosmetic range are available. Our breakfast buns will be sizzling as usual and our central kitchen will have a proper Sunday lunch, including vegetarian options. For dessert stop by the Camphill cake table, and for a cool drink or Camphill beer pop around to our tuck shop and beer station.

Our famous tractor rides will be doing the rounds; hop on to tour the farm for only R10.00 per person. We will have an Easter egg hunt at 12h00 for our young friends. Bring along baskets and remember to pack a sunhat. Our swimming pool will be open for those brave enough, and we will have our guided bike tours again - bring along your own bicycle or rent one from us.

Live music continues at this market - Ruby Paton and Sharѐ Walkers will entertain us with their beautiful voices and guitars.

Now I am sure you are as excited as we are about this market. Diarise 3 April 2022 10h00-14h00 and support a worthy cause.

Open 10h00 to 14h00 at our Community Centre.

 
DIRECTIONS & CONTACT DETAILS
Directions: From the N1 take the N7 towards Malmesbury, travel approx 35km.
At the sign “R304 Atlantis/Chatsworth” turn left, drive another 4,5km
and we are on the left.

Email orders@camphill.org.za or visit www.camphill.org.za/market

Contact 021 571 8600 & 8641 on market day
 
Raffle
April market raffle
by Geornelle de Villiers

At our December market last year we ran our first raffle and this has become a regular highlight. For April we have an amazing prize up for grabs - a total steal at ONLY R50.00 per ticket.

This month’s prize is a real treat- a dinner for two at Cape Town’s famous Duchess of Wisbeach Restaurant, plus a harbour cruise and wine tasting experience at the V&A Waterfront. This prize is the perfect spoil for couples, friends, and to treat a parent.
 
To stand a chance of winning this amazing prize:

Pay for your tickets by EFT and email your POP and phone number with the reference “Camphill Market Raffle” to Geornelle on hr-assistant@camphill.org.za

Direct Bank Transfer
Account name: Camphill Village
Bank: Standard Bank (Malmesbury)
Branch Code: 050507
Account number: 082 399 204

You may buy as many tickets as you wish.
 
Duchess of Wisbeach Restaurant
For what we are about to receive ...
by James Sleigh

Every day for the last 57 years, house leaders have turned their stoves on in the morning to cook lunch for the residents in their house. We have 13 group homes, which has meant that 13 sets of staff have prepared 13 lunches and suppers, using the gas and electricity of 13 ovens.

We have many times discussed the idea of creating a central kitchen, but the set-up costs and logistics always seemed too much to contemplate, so we have repeatedly shelved the idea.

This month we decided to do a pilot and, together with the bakery team and two cooks, took the bull by the horns. Much planning and input went into this. We received valuable advice from Rayne Stroebel from Geratech, and were able to tour one of their central kitchens. We bought some equipment and asked the health inspector to review and licence the bakery for its additional role.

We needed to brainstorm menus. We feed 160 people daily, people ranging in abilities from hard-working active young members, to sedentary older residents, some of whom have specific dietary requirements. Menus have to be layered, so that the food is not only full of nutrition, releasing energy at different stages of the day, but also comforting, tasty and enjoyable, and what we are used to. And we have to work within a defined budget. 

What has been most exciting about this challenge is that everyone has stepped up to make this work. The central kitchen team - Max, Zelda, Melanie and Maggie, together with their team of residents, have excelled! It really has been a community project. Our maintenance team built a hot storage unit in our old delivery truck. Our volunteers deliver the food, and office admin staff step in if our driver is out on trips. Our house leaders have had to adapt their routines, and have given valuable guidance and feedback. Our vegetable garden now has a clear growth plan for the weekly menus and our staff can now buy lunches.

We have less than one month of data so far, but the results seem very positive. We’re seeing savings in food, huge reduction in wastage, and also savings in resources, freeing up house leaders. This has also enabled us to actively support and monitor healthy eating. 

It has been an exciting and challenging project so far. As we want to track real outcomes, this has stimulated us to improve our wellness criteria for each person, an upgrade to this project with our wellbeing team.
Sr. YaschaA change to our Health and Wellbeing team
by Carine Human

Our much loved Sr. Sheryl retired last year. She continued supporting us while the position was vacant, for which we cannot express enough gratitude. At one point it felt like she was going to be irreplaceable (as her legend stands), but after many interviews we were blessed to offer the position of Nursing Sister to Yaschka Nyshimani.
 
Sr. Yascha was born in Atlantis and her husband is also a Nursing Sister. She has a 6 year old daughter and a son of 2. For as long as she can remember, she wanted to be a nurse. A profession often referred to as a calling, which she absolutely vouches for. 

She started her nursing training in 2009 at Netcare Education at N1 City Netcare Hospital. In her final year of training at Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital, she also did community training at Victoria (DOH) Hospital. She has experience in paediatric and neonatal nursing, along with intensive care training.

She worked for Netcare for 10 years and has now decided to spread her wings, which brought her to Camphill Village, which she is excited and motivated about. 

She describes herself as quiet and observing, and once she is settled in and familiar she can be quite the chatterbox. She likes to spend as much time as possible with her children and enjoys travelling and reading a good book. 

Sr. Yaschka, we wish you a WARM welcome and hope that Camphill Village will be a blessing to you in living your calling.
Caution changes ahead
Change and autism
by a mother

Change... something I used to thrive on, I used to love the fact that nothing stays the same in an ever changing world. Until the diagnosis. Autism. Change is something autism does not like.

Routine is my new new. Whether I like it or not.  

“Five minutes Ben, in five minutes we will be going to school, okay?” That’s what I need to tell my son every time we go somewhere, every time we are going to do something, every time things are going to change.  5 Minutes Ben, 4,3,2,1.. okay Ben we are going. Then Ben is ok. As long as he gets a warning. 

It was worse before therapy. Therapy that cost me almost half a million Rand, all coming from friends, from me working extra hours, from family, from me spending hours making things, selling them, trying to get the funds for my son’s therapy. 

I am privileged that I had support, a job where I could make this change in my son’s life. Again the word ‘change’. 

I sometimes wonder what someone less privileged would do, or does, to achieve that change. To change their child from a screaming, biting, kicking autistic child, to a child that actually goes with a five minute countdown. Because that is what therapy did for my child. 

Someone that doesn’t have the family, friends or the job to back it up to get that change to help their child to get better. Because hard reality, there is no help in South Africa if you don’t make your own plan. No help from the Medical Aid, believe me, that is a whole new article.

Change used to be something that excited me. It still does, just not with my child. Change means I am going to die one day. I won’t be there anymore to look after him and that’s the biggest change that will ever happen in his and my life. And my biggest fear. 

I want my child to change, I want him to get better, want him to be a functioning grown-up. Find all the joys and the pain of this life we live. But I would rather he do it with me in this world with him, than alone.

I do know that things change: I get older, he gets older. What do I do when I’m gone and I’m not there to give him the love of a mum, to give him the calmness every time something changes?

I hope things change for the better, that schools are more inclusive (because believe me they really are not) and actually take action on being inclusive instead of just writing it somewhere on  paper or social media. 

I hope that things change for the better in this country. I hope that people realise that, by not inviting us to their children’s birthday parties because our child does not sit still, or screams every now and then, that they are part of the problem. I hope that things change that we stop losing friends because it’s too inconvenient for them.

I hope that things change that people will not tell me: “Oh you are such a strong woman, God gave you this child for a reason.” Believe me, we don't really have a choice, if it was your child, you would also have to make it work.

We need to CHANGE that, we need to say: How can I help you? What can I do? What can I make or say to make you feel better and support you?

To all my fellow Autism mums, I hear you, I feel you, I hope change will be your friend and not your enemy going forward. I know you are doing your best in an ever-changing world. Let’s hope things will change. 

Change, she’s my friend and my enemy I love her and I hate her. Let’s hope she is my friend for a little bit longer.
Love in a Bowl
Love in a bowl / HBUFC / Camphill West Coast - a day of sharing, connecting and playing
by James Sleigh
 
We have so many amazing organisations in this country, supporting and uplifting people who cannot get this support from elsewhere. In all of them we find incredible, dedicated and inspired people, working hard to help others keep dreams alive. Resources are limited and work is challenging, and very often it feels as if we are working on our own islands, trying to cope.

Last Friday, members from Camphill Village met up with two other organisations in Hout Bay, Cape Town. It was a day of sharing, learning and playing, and afterwards we realised that we need to connect with each other so much more.

We visited Love in a Bowl and were given a tour of this incredible enterprise. They have a soccer team and Camphill Village Soccer Team played against them. Our match was organised and facilitated by Jeremy from HBUFC (Hout Bay United Football Club).
 
About Love in a Bowl
Created 8 years ago, Love in a Bowl is a magical collaborative initiative that grows organic veggies in community farms throughout Hout Bay.  We ensure brilliant veggies for local consumers and the compassionate distribution of food to the most vulnerable of our little town.  The community of Hout Bay have all come together around our common bond with food.  Growing and sharing these vegetables together is truly changing our lives, changing our village, changing our world.
 
About Hout Bay United Football Club
Hout Bay United Football Community (HBUFC) is a trust set up by a group of enthusiasts in Hout Bay in order to do three things:
  1. Encourage the communities to come together.
  2. Get kids off the street and develop them through mentorship and coaching to improve life skills, school work & football ability. The programs themselves create jobs for players & locals.
  3. Promote successful top class football and bring a common hope & pride to the people of Hout Bay.
As our government is less and less able to support the needs of people, so more and more organisations are stepping in. I encourage you to support these organisations. Those of you living in Hout Bay can buy fresh vegetables from Love in a Bowl and support the amazing empowerment initiative of HBUFC.

The day ended with our team being sponsored a meal by Fish on the Rocks, Hout Bay - a big thank you to them. I think it was the freshest fish I have ever tasted!

Hout Bay United Football Club
Hout Bay Outing
Our Hout Bay outing
by Leentjie Laureti

On March 18th Camphill had the opportunity to go to Love in a Bowl at Hout Bay and see what they do there. It was just amazing to see what is going on there. They showed us around their vegetable gardens, told us how they grow vegetables, and we had some chips and cooldrink. From there we went to the field where we were gonna play. 

On the way to our destination I wasn't feeling very good, so Max - my amazing coach who I love dearly - made me sit on the bench and support the team from a distance. We got to our field and we warmed up and started the game. We had an amazing day - thanks to James and Max. After the game we were treated with an amazing lunch and nice cooldrink to cool us off after such a busy morning. We took some photos of the team and all the memories we created.

Well done Love in a Bowl! You guys are an amazing team and we are so happy that we had the opportunity to play a match vs you guys. We hope we will see you again soon. This time be prepared.... we're coming back stronger and full of hope! Thank you again for this amazing day.
Change too
Changing world
by Janine Strumpher

The world is ever changing and we evolve and adapt and show resilience and carry on. But the last two and a half years have changed at such a speed that it feels like we are running in reverse. At first glimpse of the other side of the pandemic, a war breaks out. One cannot believe that in this day and time people are at war. It is 2022 and we are in a state of armed conflict between two countries. 

What saddens me in the philanthropic sector is that funding that could go to necessary great causes is now lost because of the arrogance, ego and stupidity of what should be intelligent people. As a fundraiser, for the last two years I experienced all funding being diverted to Covid - which one wishes could have been prevented but we understand and accept. Then, as we try to recover and be positive, a senseless war diverts funds again – and this is impossible to understand and accept. Once again the vulnerable are left behind. 

Please support your non-profit. We need your assistance now more than ever – in spite of all that is happening in the world, philanthropists have to keep their doors open to protect what they set out to do, no matter what the world throws our way.
Transitional Change
Transitional change
by Viwe Dzebe-Dzebe

A life transition is any change or adjustment that impacts your life in a significant way. We experience change throughout our lives, big and small, planned or unplanned. 

I asked Ennis Roelofse about how he coped with transitional change, as he seems to have adjusted very well to the life in Camphill. Ennis joined Camphill in June 2021. He says transitioning was not easy for him in the beginning as he would often feel home sick, as he was so used to living with his family.

He says what helped him adjust to the change is that he quickly got along with his housemates and made friends with other residents in the village, and before he knew it he was already feeling part of the family. It also helped him a lot that his family kept in touch with him through phone calls, and his brother would visit him and sometimes take him out for a weekend. 

What keeps him going is that he loves working on the farm, especially taking care of the pigs and helping wherever he is needed on the farm. He enjoys the rest in between working hours and also enjoys riding his bicycle around the village running errands for his house, such as fetching bread and milk from the bakery and dairy.

Stefan, a young volunteer staying in the same house with Ennis and also working on the farm, says “Since living on the farm I perceived Ennis as a really helpful, open person with his straight way to solve problems. He has a huge knowledge about the work on the farm and takes care of the pigs like a dad. In our house he is always washing the dishes and is really reliable in doing his tasks. He is a hard working resident with his own kind of funny humour”.
A good man is hard to find
by Masixole Madyungu

Change is the rule of life. No one has all the best qualities. If you want to improve your current situation, you have to improve who you are. You can work to better yourself and to remove your fears. Those who embrace change and take it with a good heart are the kings in the game of life.
 
Neil proved to me the first time he stepped in the door that he was willing to embrace change. He was willing to put everything behind him and accept new challenges. As well as the laughter and smiles that he brings to the team, we have noticed he is always willing to adapt to change. He allows people to get to know him, and is determined to work hard.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

It's all too easy to become fixated on events over which we have no power, or people who might never change their actions or attitude. Rather than focus on blaming others or moving the unmovable, resilient people set their sights on what they can control. You can ask yourself, “What can I take responsibility for in this situation?” When you look for opportunities to empower yourself and work towards change that is possible, you’re less likely to feel stuck in difficult situations. 

Neil takes each and every situation with smile, and overcomes it with a joke. He's charming, often the centre of attention because he reaches each and every of us with smile. I'm inspired by the way he has approached change.

In times of change, it’s easy for your mind to cut corners. You might see everything in black or white, or you assume the worst will occur. If you take the time to examine your thought patterns and assess how rational they are, you might be able to nudge your thinking towards resilience. Slow down your mind with relaxation techniques, such as mindfulness or deep breathing. This can help you feel more in control of your brain and how you evaluate a major change. 

This month my high five goes to Neil for bringing those bright colours to our work space, and we admire his strength of believing that change is not always bad, there are good changes. Sometimes it depends how you look at things.
How the change of “habitat” is affecting our trial residents
by Delmaine Willemse
 
We all know change can be good or bad. For our trial residents coming from different backgrounds to live at Camphill it can’t have been equally easy to adapt. We currently have six new residents here on a trial basis and they have been allocated to houses in the Village best suited for them.
 
I chatted to them about their experience of Camphill thus far and what the most challenging change was for them. 
 
Loret
I’m enjoying Camphill so far. It is my first time away from my family, but they are simply a whatsapp call away so I am able to video call them when I miss them. I like to work so I enjoy working on the farm. Everything is just so far apart, I walk almost 20km per day. Luckily I am not unfit.  Camphill makes me feel free and safe.
Alex

Alex
The work schedule is still a bit difficult to adjust to, but overall I like Camphill and the environment.
Sonja

Sonja
Camphill is okay.  I am making a lot of new friends and I like my house leader. The walking around is just a massive challenge. My favourite experience has definitely been the market.  I am okay and Camphill is okay.
Tarryn

Tarryn
Camphill is nice. I like my house I live in and my house leader is amazing. I have made good friends and enjoy the farm. In Camphill I have my freedom and gained a new family. It is very good.
Tamsin

Tamsin
I like it here, feels like home. The people here are amazing and very friendly. I enjoy my housemates and tuck shop day is my favourite.

Joanna
Camphill is nice, nothing has changed much. The environment is still perfect for me. I definitely like it here.
Chameleon
A little time may allow massive change
by Carine Human

As Camphill’s social worker I’m responsible for screening, assessing and recruiting new residents for our village, for which I have the support and insights of the rest of our health and wellbeing team: Pikkie Steenkamp (Health and Wellbeing Manager), Nina Oberzaucher (Occupational Therapist), Yaschke Nyishimani (Nursing sister) and Michelle Groth (Psychology student and assistant to our team).

Potential applicants often ask how long our waiting list is and what number on the waiting list they are. If only it was as simple as a person being a number. This is an impossibility. An absolute impossibility. Within each unique person lie immeasurable variables. I initially ‘meet’ a person on paper and have some information about them. In a conscious attempt to stay objective, I arrange to meet this ‘name’. Then the name walks in and a ‘face’ appears – stripping away any prior conceptions ‘known’ about the name. Eyes start talking, voice joins in, a body speaks and a light shines. That is the moment of real ‘screening, assessing and recruiting’, or rather exploration, learning. In Afrikaans the beautiful word ‘ontgin’ is a favourite. Translated it means to exploit, which is not at all the same meaning and feeling.

This is a journey into the unknown. Parallel to this journey lies the known. The colleagues, the existing residents, the constellations at home, at enterprises, new relationships, old relationships. Good history, bad history. All of this is part of the screening, assessing and recruiting of a new resident. This new resident has our full devotion, being set up to succeed a trial and not to fail. We plan carefully, we take all the considerations and variables into account. Only then, after hours of thinking, considering, planning, risk management, consultation, preparation, counselling, between us and the applicant and us and the village, we decide who we are putting into a certain constellation on a trial in a concerted effort to make it work. It is a change for everyone and everyone is affected by change.

Time often is part of this change. I once had a disgruntled family expressing their immense frustration with me, as they heard I’d placed someone else during the 8 months they had been on the waiting list. I tried with utmost understanding and empathy to explain our process. A while later, I invited them back for a follow up interview and trial planning, as the most feasible space for this applicant had now presented itself. This resident has been living here, happily ever after and the family is in full support of our team and staff. We often receive acknowledgement, gratitude and support from them and this is what makes it the most rewarding place to live your calling. 

Two other residents I’d previously unfortunately had to advise that perhaps our facility is not meeting their care and support needs. They opted to leave. We kept in touch and recently met up with them again. Time changed everything. They are both back in the village, a little older, a little more mature, wiser, the village much more tolerant, staff more supported and experienced, and our health and wellbeing team expanded. Time indeed is a major factor and in fact, perhaps indeed a healer too.
Water Respect
Water respect
by Janine Strumpher

World Water Day was celebrated on the 22nd March and I could not help think of our very own Day Zero just the other day, when Cape Town was on the brink of running out of water after a three year drought. Water is the one thing nothing can live without and yet we so take it for granted. This is a reminder to at all times save water, and remember to be grateful if you have a tap, and if that tap gives you water.

Camphill Village is at a point where we have to re-configure our water reticulation. We have kilometres of pipes that were added on by different people over the years, buried 2.5 meters under the ground, and a water tower that needs to be replaced. If there are water whisperer experts that can please come share their knowledge it will be much appreciated, please contact Janine.
 
Sonnekus and Table View Youth Camp
Sonnekus and Table View Youth Camp - what-a-lot we got! 
by Sonnekus Youth

Everyone needed fresh air and space, especially the children. When the bus arrived on Friday 25th February we knew we had a bunch of children with lots of energy and the need to let it out! Arriving at Camphill Village was such an amazing moment for the children, as they saw loads of trees and open spaces. Top on their list was the swimming pool.

We were welcomed by Carine Human (Camphill’s social worker) and we felt right at home. The hall was used for sleeping, praise and worship. We even had a concert for the lovely residents of Camphill Village on Saturday evening.

Saturday morning the children were amazed to experience where milk really comes from, and they got the opportunity to see how the Camphill modern dairy works in full action. After that Carine told them more about the story of Camphill and explained intellectual disability to everyone. She then told us about the Jojoba plantation and we all went down and helped to harvest them.

There are so many, wide open spaces to play games with the children. They finally enjoyed the pool. The stars at Camphill are breathtaking, we took the children for a walk and helped them admire the open sky and stars, as many had never experienced the peace of nature at night.

We would like to thank each and every person at Camphill, from management to every resident, for allowing us into your space and making us feel so at home and for the wonderful work you do. We would love to bring our teenagers later in the year to share in this amazing experience. May God bless you and keep you safe.
FaniswaFaniswa’s journey at Camphill
by Geornelle de Villiers

In 1993 a young Faniswa started her journey at Camphill in the garden under the supervision of Christopher Dry, former house leader of Aquarius, who she says taught her not only garden skills, but also life skills. In 2001 Renate Sleigh, who she refers to as Mamma, asked her to help with cleaning in the Moya. She tried this for a few months, realised that she missed the open fields and soon requested that she be returned to the gardens. She was however asked to work on the farm. Here she cared for the pigs and chickens. Some of her fondest memories are of bringing her children, then still babies, along to work. She would put them on the tractor with shading. Here they would lie while she worked and be cared for during her lunch hour.

In 2016 she moved to the dairy. Here she was taught many skills, but cleaning the jars and buckets for the various dairy products was and is still her favourite task. She describes it as the most important job in the dairy. She explains that if the jars are not cleaned properly it could lead to unwanted germs building in the jars resulting in spoiled products.
 
When asked what has changed in the dairy since 2016, she laughs and says, “the age of the dairy manager”. She explains that they have a good understanding. As much as she learns from him, he does from her. “His willingness to be taught by an old lady like me is admirable.” 

We realise that by 2023 she would have been an employee of Camphill Village for an amazing 30 years. She says, “in Camphill I have cried, but I also laughed, in fact I laugh every day”. She says that she has learned to look past the disability of the residents and begun to admire the many abilities they have. She concludes saying that Camphill  is not only her place of work, but more like a second home. “This place shaped me” she adds with a big smile.
 
Sound Waves
Sound waves of change
by Nina Oberzaucher

The human ear is a marvellous instrument. Its function is to receive sound waves from different sources in the environment and transmit and translate vibration to nerve impulses. This is a textbook description that can be understood cerebrally in terms of what happens when it works, and what happens when it does not work. From an experiential perspective, however, we cannot begin to imagine what it is like to live with a hearing impairment, unless we are part of a small group of people who live this reality every day. 

Two of our residents have recently had their hearing aids fitted, which has made for a significant change in their lives – allowing them to open up their inner world to us, as well as understanding conversation around them and being understood.

“Paula is such a chatterbox now that she has her hearing aid,” a resident reports about her friend, who has just received her long-awaited hearing aid. This process has been ongoing via the public health system since before the Covid-19 pandemic hit South Africa. Through the different waves of the pandemic, access to health services was extremely difficult and appointments kept on having to be postponed due to waves of infections.

On receiving the news of this massive change in Paula’s life, I had to go and see her. I was so excited to finally have a conversation with her! I was eager to hear Paula speak and have a conversation where I was sure that she could hear me and understand what I am saying. 

I’ve known Paula to be very reserved, timid and she would hardly make eye contact in conversation. My best option of communicating with Paula used to be to speak to her long-term partner. I was in for a great surprise this time. Paula understood everything I said – first time around. She was communicative, asked questions and answered questions – truly magical moments. To be witness to this kind of change in someone’s life was nothing short of amazing. 

Ana received her hearing aid on the same day as Paula. Here too there was a massive change in her ability to communicate and receive information, connecting her with her social environment once more.

Now Paula and Ana can again hear the sound of a song bird, the rain on the roof, music that speaks to the heart, and conversation with loved ones and friends. Hearing loss is so much more than the absence of hearing. The world becomes a different place when hearing is affected. The impact on connection with the world around us is so important to consider. Let us have patience, empathy and accommodation in our minds and hearts for the next person, we are all different, yet our struggle is so much the same.
Have you liked and followed us?
by Geornelle de Villiers
Did you know that Camphill Village has two active social media platforms? We’re on Facebook and Instagram. On these platforms we share information about Camphill, changes happening and activities that took place or will take place in the Village.

If you are not part of our online community yet and would like to join do the following:

On Facebook search Camphill Village West Coast, and like our page - Facebook
On Instagram search @camphillwestcoast, press the follow icon - Instagram

We want these platforms to be interactive and need you to like, love and share our posts. When you are using our products or visiting our market, take a selfie, post it and tag us. You are also welcome to let us know what you wish to see more of on our platforms. 

We appreciate everyone that has liked and followed our pages, but urge those who have not to join in on the fun. 

We plan to soon launch an online competition, and need a few more followers. Who knows, by simply liking and sharing you might become our first competition winner. So watch this space and remember to like, follow and share, ALWAYS.
 
Thank yous
by Janine Strumpher

Nicole and Friends – Couch, Clothing, Crockery
Fish on the Rocks, Hout Bay - lunch for the Camphill Village Soccer Team

Thank you all for keeping our charity shop going, we really appreciate your donations, contact Janine for any donation at fundraiser@camphill.org.za
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Sponsor a Resident
by Janine Strumpher

We have embarked on a drive to find a sponsor for each resident who has no family or financial means. Without Camphill Village they would be on the streets where people with special needs are often victims of abuse and manipulation and at risk even within their own families and/or communities.

And without financial assistance we cannot continue providing this place of safety.

Living at Camphill Village West Coast gives people with intellectual disability the chance to live a full, creative and fulfilled life, to develop their abilities and contribute to their community. The life that we take for granted, is for many a gift. However we can only do this when financial support is found for the individuals.

If you can help, or know of Individuals or Companies we can approach please contact Janine Strumpher on 021 571 8600 or e-mail fundraiser@camphill.org.za

Take a break from your busy day and watch this beautiful slideshow about life at Camphill - https://youtu.be/B3BQ8PmMZuY


 
How to Donate
by Janine Strumpher

Our PayPal account is now in operation; there are now three ways to donate cash to Camphill Village West Coast.
 
  1. We now have a Payfast account if you'd like to donate in ZAR - Click Here
  2. And a PayPal account for donations in USD or Euros - Click Here
  3. EFT – Camphill Village Standard Bank Malmesbury Acc: 082 399 204 Branch: 050507 Swift: SBZA ZA JJ
  4. Foreign donations can be made through a NPO in your country and a tax certificate can be issued, please contact Janine to discuss for more info.
NB! Your donation is TAX DEDUCTIBLE, we would like to thank everybody that supports Camphill, remember without your support we cannot continue the work we do. We provide a safe normal life for people living with intellectual disability.
My School Card
My School Card
 

Support Camphill Village with a MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet card.
 
Every time you shop at Woolworths, Engen, Flight Centre, Loot, Builders Warehouse, Alltech Netstar and Power 24 a percentage of the amount goes to your MySchool beneficiaries.

If you don’t already have a card the application form is available on our website here.  http://www.camphill.org.za/my-school-card

If you already have a card, update your profile to include Camphill Village West Coast as one of your beneficiaries. https://www.myschool.co.za/supporter/update/

You can have up to three beneficiaries per card, so can support us at the same time as your school or other favourite charity.

Thank you – every little bit makes a difference!

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