I am really pleased to be able to share  a number of items of exceptionally good news with you. 

The first concerns the completion of our Be A Winner in 2010  competition. 46 Schools took part in this major HIV and AIDS awareness scheme. We really tried to reach into the mindset of the secondary school pupils, to try and understand how the all-pervasive impact of the pandemic dramatically and constantly determines their response to home, family, education and social contacts.

We have selected the winning school and the award of E50,000 will be made in September when the schools return from holiday. It will be a very special occasion.

Then I am happy to tell you that we have also completed the building of the church at Dvumbe. The name of the church is   Ekukhanyeni which means ‘In the Light.’  The church was completed on time and on budget, thanks to the hard work of the community who provided the labour, under the direction of a competent local builder. We had an amazing day of celebration which you will see under our projects section of this website. What you will not see, is this community in which we have worked for three years, presenting me with a cow. This is a great honour when presented by very impoverished people. It happens to be a pregnant cow so when the calf is born, I will be well into ranching!!!

During the last few weeks we have also been able to present the local authority with three new waste recycling units. These are located at schools in Mbabane and the company recycling the waste materials will pay the schools for what they collect, thus ensuring a measure of income generation.

Through the kindness of Changing Futures we have also been able to provide fifty new desks and chairs at one school and to furnish the staff room - which had nothing at all in it - at another school.

We have been delighted to see substantial development in the C.H.I.P.S programme. This is the Childhood HIV Intervention for Swaziland. This programme is expanding into new areas of urgent need.

It has been a very busy period and Brenda and I are in the UK on leave for part of August. During this time we will also travel to Russia where I have been asked to speak at a conference being organised by a very generous donor without whose support much of our work would not be possible.

We want to thank everyone who offers us material, emotional and spiritual support.  We need it I can assure you.

We look forward to being back in Swaziland within a month, and to being right on the cusp of caring work in the constantly  demanding situation that Swaziland is.

Yours appreciatively.

Ken and Brenda Jefferson

Directors  Claypotts Trust.