£172 added to the CAP fund.

£558 added to the fund…

And £6000 was sent out to the ROPE project in Chesau.

In spite of the lack of ‘stuff’ appearing on this site we have been busy.

This Saturday (19th April) sees the first CAP day of the year, where the main worship service is given over to reporting what’s been happening.

Shirley Thomas is not long back from a few months in South Africa and Australia. During her epic trip she visited Maluti and she’ll tell us what she found there.

Is it spring yet?  No? Oh well…

Let’s give some money to CAP instead.  This month CAP funds increased by £406.

In spite of battening down the hatches for the Scottish winter the good folks of Crieff managed to contribute £155 to the CAP funds.

Given that everyone is broke in January we’re pleased to report that the CAP contributions for Jan were £115.

December was a good month for CAP – probably the best yet. Contributions during the month came to £2545.20, making a total for 2007 of around £8300 plus the £8000 from the Church budget. Not bad for a church of 60+ members…

We’re having our annual Church Business Meeting this coming weekend after which we’ll post the annual report for the CAP funds.

The CAP coffers increased by GBP215.50 in November 2007…

Contributions to CAP in October 2007 were GBP 107.29.

We received confirmation that the last CAKE contribution of GBP7000 has finally arrived at Maluti in Lesotho. We hope to post more information on what the money will be used for soon…

Contributions to CAP in September 2007 came to GBP 678.10.

Contributions to CAP in August 2007 came to GBP 105.00.

(the text below is from Ruth Farrer, who has just returned from visiting Romania and the Chesau home)

Robi Horvath married Claudia on 22 July. They will live in the section of the Home where Robi’s parents lived. The parents have built a small flat at the other end of the Home for themselves. Czabi and Hajni Horvath are expecting their first baby in September. Hajni will not work for the next 2 years.

Koti, our nurse, has left to work in Italy, but Claudia has just qualified as a nurse and will take her place. Claudia will attend the Adventist Seminary in Budapest for about 10 days for the next 3 years to get another essential government qualification for running a nursing home.

The CAP fund is currently paying the salaries of Claudia (nurse in charge), Utka (head of kitchen) and Ioan (cares for male patients, helps with laundry, cleaning and building – in other words he does whatever needs to be done!).

Jozsi and the sons continue to build additional rooms so that they can accommodate between 45-50 patients. Ilonka is now free from the kitchen and oversees all the nurses, cleaners, kitchen, etc. She now has a little more free time and can spend time talking with the patients.

All staff members have taken a course in health and hygiene and all passed the final examination. This is valid for 2 years. The Home will receive full accreditation in September (delay because of holidays). This means that everything is up to – and even higher – than the EU and local standards. This accreditation is valid for several years. General standards have been reached and there are some specific standards which need to be reached in about 2 years time.

It is rumoured that from January the government will pay one salary and give about GBP20 per month per patient. The grandmother of the SDA minister in Dundee, Scotland, is now a resident in the Home.

I believe CAP has made a substantial difference to this nursing home. Everything is going extremely well at the moment and I pray that it will continue to do so.

Ruth Farrer

I’ve just finished a new ‘CAP’ page that gives a summary of what CAP is and why we did it.  I trust it proves enlightening…

Contributions to CAP in July 2007 came to GBP 264.28.