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Welcome to our first newsletter of 2026, can’t believe it is past the middle of this year already.

Welcome to our first newsletter of the year!

Children at JJ Haven and all of their achievements this past year

June 2024 Newsletter: Thank you to all the donations and helping hands from everyone. Thank you Elijah Dike for brightening up the playground with some beautiful painting’s. Read some of the lovely messages from our children who grew up in JJHaven.

May you all be blessed with peace and love this Christmas (The preschool children presenting their Nativity pageant at the end-of-year concert - 2018) As another year dashes towards Christmas with the speed of Santa’s reindeer we would like to stop for a...

It was Andrea Groenewald from Cannon Rocks 18th birthday recently, for which she received money from her parents to spend on whatever she wanted. After praying, she decided to spend it on a party for the JJ Haven children. Andrea and her friends (all in...

With the kind donation of a large wendy house and furnishings and fittings for use as homework / meetings room, the focus has been on assisting the children with their schoolwork. Nyrocco continues to pre-school the littlies in the morning and is now involved in...

One of the volunteers had an umbrella with her this Tuesday morning. Which caused GREAT excitement for the kids. It is so nice to be reminded, that joy can be found everywhere – we just need to see it.

JJ Haven was once again privileged to be visited by your outreach group of 17 students and 3 teachers, from 16-20 April 2018, much to the excitement of the children in the home. On behalf of the JJH Committee, Molly and Neels Bam and the children, we wish...

Molly said "make yourself at home" on the first day I was shown around the dark but warm rabbit warren of a home. And that's just what it felt like for me, and why it was so painful to say goodbye and fly back to England today. I've been...

The JJ Haven family would like to thank you and Village SA / HuntSA for the generous donation of school stationery to the value of ~R12000, which was kindly arranged and delivered by Johann Grobler, in time for the start of the school year today. Attached...

Unbelievable! No really! 2017 is almost at an end! The year has flown by so fast, once again, I feel as though I could just send you last Christmas’s newsletter. It seems like I only wrote it last week. However, here we are mid-December – the weather is warming up,...

Above: Excited JJH kids checking out donated children's clothes A big thank you to Thierry and Monika for the generous donation.

It was a beautiful sunny morning in mid July. But not just any winter’s morning – but the 99th Birthday of the late Nelson Mandela. Up our driveway came two cars – with a load full of birthday treats for us. What a lovely sight to see – kids...

We send you warm greetings from a cold (for us) wintry South Africa. July already!!

Christmas Greetings from JJH – 2016 A group of happy, little angels at the start of their end-of-year concert.

Saturday, 29th March was a joyful ocassion at JJ Haven, when two new foster homes were officially opened. For years, Molly has dreamed about having safe, modern facilities for all of the children under her care. Opening the homes is an important step in realising...