“One individual can feel so powerless against the rising tide of children orphaned through HIV/Aids in South Africa that we’re paralysed into doing nothing to help,” said Charlene Erasmus, Trellidor brand and PR manager.  “So we were delighted as an organisation to assist Project O in securing the first house they’ve built for these children.  It’s such a positive and hopeful step forward in caring for them.”

Trellidor manufactures high quality security gates and burglar guards for windows, passages and doors.  The company has been involved in many child-focussed projects, often through its independent franchise network.  “Many of our franchise owners try to give back to the communities in which they work through sponsorships such as this one,” said Charlene.

“What really appealed to us was that through this housing programme as well as many other Project O initiatives, orphaned children are kept within the communities they are familiar with, surrounded by their siblings as well as people that know their personal history,” said Charlene.

Franchise owners Greg Roux (Trellidor Durban West) and Laird Anderson (Trellidor North Durban and Dolphin Coast) were only too happy to help. Their security consultants and installers secured all the windows as well as the door to this home with Trellidor barriers.  “We’ve ensured that there are retractable barriers on some of the windows as these can be used an escape route if the door is inaccessible due to fire or some other emergency,” said Greg and Laird.

“There are many people involved in Project O’s mission to assist the children in this area, which has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, but we are particularly grateful to founders Martin and Vashti Downs who had the vision necessary to drive such a project.”

Authored by:      
Lindy Barry      
P R Consultant      
Trellicor Group      
Tel: +44 11 453 9304      
Mobile    083 251 7019   
Email: lbarry@trellidor.co.za    

For Further Information:
Charlene Erasmus
Brand and P R Manager
Trellicor Group
Tel:   082 879 3051  
 
email: cerasmus@trellidor.co.za

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While visiting one of our sponsor children last week we noticed that her hand was badly swollen. We discovered that some time ago she had been out playing and had fallen into a thorn bush. The thorns had lodged themselves deep into her hand. She visited a poor local hospital where they did an operation to remove the thorns. The doctors said that they could not locate them and stitched her hand up.

Sne's swollen hand

The photo shows her hand 2 months later. A large abscess has formed protruding both sides of her hand. It left her in constant pain and unable to play with the other kids or even hold a pen.

We are not medically qualified but even so just looking at Sne’s hand announced that something had to be done! We imagined that doing nothing would have serious repercussions. We decided to do something!

We called one of the top hospitals in Durban and convinced a specialist to give us a free consultation. He said she needed an immediate operation. We asked him what would be the result of inaction in this case. He said the abscesses would no doubt have spread to the fingers and other areas of the hand causing paralysis and ultimately she would have lost her hand!

He then said that the operation would cost ‘an arm and a leg’.

He then said without hesitation that he would personally book her in to surgery and would do the operation himself - for free!

We are happy to announce that Sne had surgery at 22:00 last night. She is expected to make a total recovery. No doubt in a couple of weeks she will be walking on her hands again!

We feel privileged to have been in the right place at the right time and this time it has literally saved a little girls hand. We need this case to be the first of many. In order to do that we need more people on the ground. As the areas we work in are very rural area there are obviously costs involved in reaching these kids.

If you would like to financially contribute to this vital work please see our donations page for more information.

Mike and Laura from London helping us put up fence posts.
Laura playing with some of our orphans.
Adam and Hannah taking food to orphans.

Sabtha and her kiddies singing a song.