Agape

Posted on 19 May 2008 - 02:42

Hello everyone! First and foremost thank you so much for checking out my blog! I leave for South Africa on May 31st to volunteer at an orphanage outside of Durban called Agape. Agape is an orphanage for children, most of who have lost their parents due to HIV/AIDS.  Earlier this year I was able to watch a documentary on Agape and some of the stories of the children that live there. Although I don’t believe that the movie has been released in Canada yet make sure to look for it when it comes to HBO. It’s called “We Are Together” and it is an amazing movie. I feel so fortunate to be able to meet some of the children from the documentary and visit Agape in person and I am very excited to meet the other volunteers I will be working with. I hope all of you continue to read this blog so that I can share my experience at Agape with you all. I will be going with my friend Louise and we will be volunteering and traveling together afterwards so I’m sure there will be some stories about our travels afterwards as well (because Louise doesn’t know it yet but she’s coming bungee jumping with me at the highest bungee jump in the world haha). So I will try to write in my blog as much as possible when I’m there however, there are no computers and there is not Internet where we are staying so I will have to depend on Internet café’s for updates. Thanks again for visiting this site and I promise to keep you posted on everything!   xoxo -Margo

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Christine

19 May 2008 - 21:53

Hi Margo,

great to hear about you are going to volunteer at agape! I was with the children last summer, I still miss them and I will be excited about reading your impressions and about what has changed within the last year.

by the way, i could use the internet on a weekly base as there is an internet cafe very close to where you will be staying.

have a good time of preparing!

all best,

Christine

Judith Warren

22 May 2008 - 16:35

I will look forward to your blogs from Africa. Much love!!

Barbara

18 Aug 2008 - 17:26

Hi - have been going thru the site and saw your mention of the documentary. I watched the program last night - and probably cried most of the way through - fell in love with Mbali and felt so much heartache for the Moya family and poor Sifiso. Hopefully sometime in the future I will be able to volunteer - for now I will order a CD with the children's beautiful voices.

Name: Margo Warren

Volunteered at Agape from 02 Jun 2008 to 28 Jun 2008

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