George Snyman will be spending two weeks in Australia, visiting and speaking at various churches and conferences in Melbourne and Sydney about the plight of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. Below is George's intinerary for the period 11 to 26 October 2007. If you would like George to speak at your church, please contact him on +27-(0)13-7512341.
Planning is already underway for the 3rd annual Hands at Work International Conference to be held 4 - 7 April, 2008 at the Hana Lodge, South Africa. The international conference is a place where Hands at Work partners and project leaders from around the globe gather to share ideas and plans and to encourage and minister to one another. This year’s agenda promises new opportunities for learning and collaboration among our partners.
As usual, the International Conference will be preceded by the 4-day African conference gathering of Hands at Work leaders from projects across Africa. Project leaders spend time learning from one another, communicating with Hands at Work staff, and, especially, being ministered to. Contact Hands at Work for information on sponsoring a project leader to attend the African conference.
When George first spoke it to the Hands at Work staff, the message was a hard one: “Hands at Work must be off ASM property within six months,” he said. “By January, 2008, we will not live on this campus any longer, we must be on the land we’ve been given.”
A hard message, when spoken on land yet completely bare of buildings. Yet George spoke with a smile, because although it will take a literal miracle to get the property ready for the staff, teams and footprints students to live and work there by January, and although the alternative—scattering the Hands at Work staff around the region—would devastate operations and momentum, he says this is a chance to forge the collective character of Hands at Work like no other.
Since the beginning in 1998, Masoyi Home-Based Care (MHBC) and Hands at Work have operated from the Africa School of Missions (ASM) property in a wonderful partnership that gave Hands facilities and housing and gave ASM students practical outreach opportunities. Last year the process of moving MHBC offices into the community began in faith; in September they will be open.
Click here to tour our Hands at Work in Africa 2006 Year in Review and find out everything about how we opperate. (pdf)
Click here to download the presentation that George Snyman used at the World Aids Conference in Toronto in 2006.
It contains a brief overview of the Hands at Work in Africa vision and mission. The presentation goes into detail in the Masoyi community intervention model in the area of the Lula Care Centre model.
Click here to read the 2005 Hands at Work Annual Report. This report not only gives the financial statements for December 2005 as audited by PriceWaterhouseCooper but also gives a brief overview of some of the work in the 6 countries and the strategy for 2006 - Reaching 100 000 Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) by 2010.