With less than a week to go before our return to the UK, we need to 'close down' a few matters.
Malcolm has spent most of the week at Potters Village Home for Vulnerable children. He has been helping to 'close down' the accounts for the past few years, and to carry out an audit (actually an 'Independent Examination') of the Financial Statements.
The Village project began in 2005/6. In the past 6 years a significant cluster of buildings has been built with finances raised mainly by a UK Trust created for the purpose. The Village cares for more than 30 children under 2 years old , with a further 60 supported in the community. Many of the children would not have survived without the Village as most of their mothers had died giving birth.
One such baby is Doree (not Doreen!!!), who we mentioned in our blog of 1st July. Sadly both her mother and twin sister died at the birth and with no other female in the family able to care for her she was immediately brought into the Village. She is now almost 4 months old and doing very well, and is being sponsored by our son and daughter in law so he future is bright. Hopefully she will return to her family to be cared for when she is about 2 years old
The latest project is to build a new Babies Unit so that their current 'home' can revert to its original purpose of a Medical centre to care for premature babies and sick children. The structure of the new unit is close to completion with interior plumbing and fitting out in progress.
Another youngster you is growing up is the guard dog, Otis. He is only a few months old – he will welcome you during the daytime, but at night, if anyone comes into the Village site, he will do his job and start barking.
http://www.pottersvillage.org.uk/
And what now - time to start packing up
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