Tea-Mobile

I spent saturday with Martha, at her daughter Charlene’s house near Makapanstad. I’d been promising to go and visit them for ages – so yesterday I jumped in the car and went. It was great spending quality time with Martha and her family. Being away from the workshop meant we couldn’t talk shop (well ok, so we did just a little).We sat outside in the sunshine drinking tea and watching Martha’s grandchildren running around. They are just too sweet – Lebogeng, the second youngest has just started learning to speak English and told me that I must now learn Tswana or she would have to teach me.

T-Mobile UK, also so kindly donated a few phones to Heartfelt to help with the running of the business.(with phone and internet connections we’ll be able to quicken the ordering process and help the ladies communicate with the outside world i.e. me). I brought them with me so that Martha and Charlene could choose one each and the remaining two will be given to two other heartfelt ladies next week. Charlene commented saying that she was going to throw a party each year to celebrate 'the day the phones arrived’ which made me giggle! Even little Omphemetse, Charlene’s 18 month old daughter pictured above got in on the act.

Just before I left, Charlene and I started talking about Emanuel and how she couldn't believe that it will be his four year memorial coming up in February. It’s certainly been a long time. Sitting there as the sun was going down - I realised that there was an unconditional love between us all and that even though all our hearts were a little bit broken, our bond could never be because of what we went through. I drove off down the road leaving everyone waving and jumping behind me and I couldn't help feeling blessed to have Martha and her family in my life.