A note from Patience for Thanksgiving:
I AM SO HAPPY TO KNOW THAT SOON I'M ON MY WAY TO CHICAGO. I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THE GOOD WORK YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. MAY OUR LIVING GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU ALL.
UNTIL I GET THERE,
PATIENCE
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Patience will be arriving in Chicago on December 22, 2008 and will begin her studies at Truman College in January. We are well on our goal of recieving the gifts for her tuition for her first semester in Early Childhood Education. Thanks to you all for remembering this vivacious young woman from Cape Town, South Africa, who holds high goals and aspirations.
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I met Patience on a recent trip to South Africa when we visited her mother's day care center in Tubelisha Township in Cape Town, I was simply drawn to Patience, her mother, and this day care because all of the people in this small, simple two-room day care were so loving and caring of the infants, toddlers and preschoolers who came there daily.
Patience has a strong desire to help her mother in developing this day care center. At 24, Patience already has her business studies and wants to learn the best way to expand this caring place for the many young children who so need child care while parents are working. The day care has so many children coming to their door and this small staff and the small space cannot accomodate all that need care. So this is the reason Patience wants to continue her education here in Chicago.
We have the transportation and room and board arranged for Patience to be in Chicago. What remains is the tuition and costs for books for her for this fall semester at Truman College, a City College of Chicago in Illinois. Her goal is to return home with the knowledge to provide essential care and education for the very young of Tubelisha Township in South Africa.
Now with the help of many friends and donors, she will be off to a wonderful start in her first semester. Your loving gifts of support to one will mean a world of difference for many years to come for these precious young children and their families living in a struggling urban Black community.
Patience says:
I want to get an early education certificate in the US to learn all I can about caring for the young children. I will return to Kuyehova Day Care Centre in my community and help my mother with the centre.
Please tell everyone that is helping us that these following words are coming straight from my heart. A hand that gives is the hand that reaps all the good deeds of the Lord.
There are many children out there who want to be helped just like me, and I promise when I'm through with my studies I'll do the same for them - Patience.