Transkei Make-over miracles!

Transkei... what a privilage!

The journey began with a "blikskud" in Port-Elizabeth where 44 students raised R18000 in 3 hours for the TRANSKEI AIDS PROJECT. The North-Bound and Work-your-way teams stayed in Mahosheni just 18km from Coffee Bay. We slept in traditional Xhosa huts (with a chicken named Betty), took "skottel" baths, ate African stamp mielies and played with the local kids... The main projects for the week was to build a rondawel, a stone house as an AIDS clinic, to create a Veggie-tunnel and to dig a "longdrop".

If we had to highlight only a few of our best memories during our Transkei journey these would be it:

• We found favor with the local hardware suppliers selling us building material at "spaza prices".
• We had the opportunity to spend time with the local community going hut-to-hut, sharing the Gods' story and praying for them. We saw God provide local translators to bridge language barriers and how God healed a deaf boy and women that had been sick in bed since before Christmas (2months).
• The water supply in the area was cut of 4 days before the end of our stay. We could only collect enough water from Coffee Bay daily for basic our needs and no access for mixing cement etc. After praying we found a hole on site that was filled with enough water to sustain us for the 4 days!
• An additional R16000 was also raised electronically through GCEX website support.

Looking back we can surely see how God provided in all our needs no matter how small.

Nkosi Sikele' Mahosheni, Transkei.