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Computer Fun Day
The WUCT computer centre/internet cafe was buzzing on Sat 29 Oct, when volunteers from the American International School came to show the children of Westlake how to have fun with computers. As you can see, they had a wonderful time as they learnt how to play games – the boys enjoyed racing cars and the girls playing Barbie dolls – amongst other things you can do with computers! We would like to thank the American International School for coming on Saturday to give our children this amazing opportunity to learn some computer skills.
Indoor Sports day for the elderly
On Friday 28 Oct ’11, Beatrice Matthews, the facilitator of our chronic diseases of lifestyle support groups, organised an indoor sports event for the Westlake and Compassion in Action support groups in our hall. There was much fun and excitement, and war cries, as the people competed in the various events. The children from our Emmanuel Educare preschool came to watch and the noise level was deafening. I don’t know who enjoyed it more – the children or the elderly! A huge thank you to Beatrice for organising a highly successful event, and Coca Cola for supplying Cokes as refreshments for everyone to enjoy afterwards.
New foster home opened in Westlake
On Sat 29 Oct ’11, a new foster home in Westlake was officially opened and blessed. “Home from Home”, an organisation which has 21 other homes in and around Cape Town bought a house in Westlake, and a foster mother, Tilly Fish, will look after 6 children. The house is beautifully furnished and 4 children have already moved in. This project will be run as a partnership between Home from Home and Westlake United Church Trust, and we look forward to helping Tilly with her new special little family and pray that this home will truly be a blessing for Westlake.
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- The Blessing of the new “Home from Home” Foster home took place in October
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- The new “Home from Home” foster home in Westlake
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- Dave barnes (WUCT) talking to Pippa Shaper from “Home from Home”
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- Pippa Shaper of Home from Home, Tilly Fish the foster mother, Jane Payne – a social worker from Home from Home, and Sheree Lang of Home from Home.
Cadiz Steenberg Golf Classic: Pre-event photoshoot
WUCT is delighted that Cadiz Asset Management has chosen to support WUCT once again as a benficiary of their annual Charity Golf Classic. In preparation for the event, two of the Emmanuel Educare learners (Sky-Li Harmse and Nwabisa Gcwabe) took part in a pre-event publicity photo-shoot at the golf estate.
Frank Cadiz, Nwabisa Gcwabe, Sky-Li Harmse and Morne Du Plessis
The event, sponsored by Cadiz Asset Management, runs from October 30 to November 5, and is hosted at the premier Steenberg Golf Estate, Cape Town. The golf course, rated by respected periodical Compleat Golfer as among the top three golfing experiences in South Africa, boasts a host of illustrious members, including rugby heroes Francois Pienaar, Morne du Plessis and HO de Villiers.
The Cadiz Steenberg Classic has grown since 2000 from a one day tournament into a week-long, community upliftment event with a host of competitions that cater for a wide range of categories, culminating in the main championship on the final day. This is followed by a gala event and prize giving.
The CEO of Cadiz Asset Management, Frank Cadiz, said the funds raised will be donated to beneficiaries in the broader Steenberg community, viz: SARDA which provides disabled children with therapy through horse riding, TEARS, an animal rescue society, the Westlake Community Centre, the Steenberg Clinic and Caddy Programme and the Haemophilia Foundation.
“The Cadiz Steenberg Classic is an important social responsibility event which gives back to the community, impacting positively on the lives of people within the area in which we live and where we play golf,” said Cadiz. “If all of us do more by giving back, we’ll all be in a much better place.”
Steenberg’s Director of Golf, Ian Kennedy, said the event was unique: “All participants will be treated to one of the best golfing experiences available while at the same time they will all be giving something back to the community. And operationally, this event is run at the highest golfing standards possible.”
Launch of the pre-school playground
The article below appeared in the Constatiaberg Bulletin dated 29 September 2011. It gives some background information about the new pre-school playground which was officially launched on 20 September 2011.
Westlake necklaces popular in Switzerland
We received some fan mail from Switzerland regarding the necklaces that are made here at Westlake. To quote from the letter: “Here are two pics of three of our Webster University Geneva students wearing your beads. They are about to become all the rage here.
Please show the ladies how their wonderful work has been received in Switzerland.
The coloured beads are really sought after and I would like to look with you for a way to order another 40 of these.They are all gone and I still have lots of the browns, blues and greens. Unfortunately I do not have anyone coming over at the moment from Cape Town.
Do you have a way of mailing them to me at Webster Geneva if the cost is not too great? See address below. We don’t need anything other than snail mail so as to save costs. Alternatively if someone is coming to Switzerland we could try and make this work.
….I would like perhaps to sell the next batch at our first Webster Geneva Counseling Conference on 19th, 20th and 21st October if possible”.
Jump Math team need volunteers!
Dorothy Raine and her JUMPMATH team have moved over to the new Westlake Primary School and tutor children from Grades 4 and 5 on Wednesday afternoons between 3 and 4 pm.
More volunteers would be much appreciated! Don’t think you have to be a Maths wizard or even a teacher to get involved. Dorothy will guide and give all the instructions you need to help with this really important outreach to the children.
Contact Dorothy at her email address.
Pictured below: Students and volunteers at the new Westlake Primary School.
Maryland Literacy Centre treats the ABET Group
On Sunday 4th September members of the ABET (Adult Basic Education & Training) group were treated to a tea party organized by Maryland Literacy Centre at the St John Bosco RC Church hall in Lansdowne.
It was a splendid affair with delicious sandwiches, cakes, tea and coffee, and prizes for each table.
A good time was had by all.
Many thanks to the Maryland Literacy Centre!
Liz Barnes & members of the ABET Group: 4 Sept 2011
Sergey Stevens at SA Greek-Roman Championship
The photo below shows Sergey Stevens at SA Greek-Roman Championship held on the 08 April 2011 in Bellville.
Sergey obtained fifth position.
He was the first wrestler from Westlake Community to attend the Championship and had the honour of leading the Western Province team into the Arena.
He is currently the Development Trainer of Westlake club and has represented Western Province on several occations and attended a National Trainers camp on the 19-21 August 2011.
He has obtained two Gold medals(Presidents and Cadet Division) as well as Bronze in the Junior Division at the Western Province Championship held on the 03 September 2011 in Wynberg Military Sports Centre.
He and five other wrestlers from the Westlake Community namely Clifford Maarman,Nolan Gericke,Ceejay Winterbach, Ziyanda Adams and Sindiswe Ndamane have been chosen for the Western Province Team to attend the SA Regional Championship on 23/24 September 2011.
Serjay Stevens at GR SA Championship 2011
Elephant Ear Badges for IFAW
A recent amazing community project, which gave work to up to 20 women in Westlake, involved the creation of 23 000 elephant ear badges. This is to create awareness about the illegal ivory trade with the goal to eliminate it. Read more about it on the IFAW website.
Learn to Earn, an NGO in Khayelitsha, asked us to help them (along with 11 other organisations in Cape Town) with this project as they were requested to produce 100 000 badges for IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare).
The badges were sent all over the world.
