Now that we are back it is time to start focusing on year end Christmas parties! (Can you believe it?! It is that time of the year AGAIN!!!) On Monday we are having a big planning day where we will be deciding on dates, gifts, food, etch. Although it is a big job of organizing everything, we are really excited about the parties. These parties are always the highlight of the year for the kids. When we ask them for the year reports what their favorite event during the year was, 95% of them say the Christmas parties! Please remember that the children of Swaziland, and especially of our carepoints, do NOT celebrate Christmas in the way children in America or Canada celebrate Christmas. No Christmas decorations to create the ‘Christmas spirit', no Christmas tree and unwrapping gifts the morning of Christmas, no big meal with turkey and stuffing... These might be the only celebration of Christmas they experience.

So if you want to be part of these celebrations and you would like to make a financial contribution, please email us for details. Or if you want to make an online donation, just click on ‘Support me' on the left of this page; enter ‘Swazi Orphan Fund' instead of the staff member's name, and please forward us the receipt.

Thank you so much! Wish some of you could be here to help us bake and decorate cakes, buy gifts, make candy bags, haul food and gifts around, play on the jumping castle ... and share in the laughter and fun of Christmas with the children of Swaziland!