The CoCo's Foundation
In May 2010, Debs and I sat in the Ubombo Child Care Centre after spending two amazing weeks building a Trauma centre with a young team of professional hairdressers: Jake, Jodie, Pete and Ed, with two young boys sitting on my lap sobbing their hearts out because they believed they would never see us again!
So what do you do? Sit there and become another adult in their world that lets them down and abuses them in a different way or do you whisper in their ear "I'll see you in August" and make the thirty hour journey.
That day my journey had just begun!
The CoCo's company is committed to the continuous support of the Ubombo Children's Care Centre and the care of twenty beautiful children through The CoCo's Foundation.
'Sometimes in life when you start something you don't know where it will take you but you have great fun times following the path'.
Thanks to 'Phil' the bag they have helped us to take a dream and make it into reality.
On our last visit we took twenty orphans on a two hour car journey to buy complete school uniforms and shoes.
When you hand over a pair of shoes to a boy of twelve and you see a single tear rolling down his cheek. You ask him what the matter is and he says 'I've never had anything new before'!
You know you are making a real difference to his life, when you know he has no Mum, no Dad and has HIV, but did not catch it from his parents.
Thank you 'Phil' the Bag! without your support, twenty orphans would not be able to attend school and one little boy would not have had the opportunity that you have given him.
Never doubt that you cannot directly help these and many other orphans through 'Phil' the bag.
The CoCo's Foundation visits orphanages two to four times a year where your donation through 'Phil' the bag will make a direct, real difference.
Contact us for more information about how you can make a link with the children at the orphanage, receive a free presentation at your school about the children and the locality, and help provide shoes for them to be able to attend school.
Call Helena on 01795 425333
Charity No. 113800
