News From Hout Bay

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL SERVICE.

Hout Bay Fishing Village Cape Town.

Rotary Hout Bay and Rotary Coolamon are Centennial Twin Rotary Clubs.

We formed our relationship in 2005 to celebrate 100 years of Rotary.

Update on the Nonceba Project in Cape Town March 2nd. 2008.

Ashley Kaimowitz Web Site.

Past President Don Peters Reports from Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa:

ASHLEY KAIMOWITZ UPDATE

"The Nonceba Centre finishing touches are moving well. The management hope that they can move in equipment at the end of March and the centre will open for business on 3rd April. We are looking forward to a number of Rotary International visitors wishing to visit the centre, including the Chairman of the Rotary Foundation later in the year and in March a representative from the E.Club of SWUSA.

Together with PDG Rodney Mazinter an inspection of the security at the centre has been made. We felt there was a need to improve on the preventative security and thus provide suitable safety for Rotary’s investment in the centre. We have approved the upgrade of the boundary fences changing them from wire mesh to a palisade type.

Electrification has already been budgeted for. The cost of this additional protection will be R62000. (Aussie $8,600). A tasteful honours type board will be placed in the reception area which will recognize Rotary and in particular the Rotary Foundation. There under a list of the Rotary Clubs involved headed by our own Club as under the stewardship of PP Matt Mercer at the time we started the Memorial Fund. Making the project a joint one we were joined by the Sea Point, Claremont, Kirstenbosch and Kromboom Clubs.

The involvement of Rotary Clubs in the USA, Fareham Club in England, Japanese Clubs and our special friends at Coolamon in Australia have made the project truly international and recognition must be made to all who have been involved. Not least those members of the public who like Rotarians wanted to honour Ashley and fulfill her dream. The project is indeed an outstanding achievement put simply – ROTARY SHARES ".

The Road to the Nonceba Project in the township of Khayelitsha above.

Report from the Kili 28/8 team on our visit to Nonceba follows:

We Visit the Nonceba Centre

The Nonceba Centre Update.

Several of the climbers from Kili 28/8 visited the Nonceba center in Khayletisha as guests of Hout Bay Rotary and in particular Rotarian Don Peters. It was Tuesday the 4th September 2007 there we met Nocawe Mankayi, a living angel. We also met a young 7 year old lass who was being counseled. No need for descriptions or photos. She was beautiful, so innocent, so young, so sad.

Here is the latest web site for Nonceba

NONCEBA

You can down load the DVD from this site as well as donate on line.

We are also making copies of Ashley's DVD on the story of Nonceba. Please contact me for a copy:

[email protected]

In the mean time we were all moved beyond our limits by what we learned from this visit and from Nocawe. We are working on fund raising ideas for Nonceba more on this later. Please Note that The Mountains of the Moon 2010 Climb will be raising funds for Hout Bay Rotary and I am sure that the funds raised will go in part to the Nonceba Project.