Transferred this am 1000. Cdn ... to the club account

Thank you and everyone behind you for all your hard work! It is absolutely wonderful to have this support from far across the ocean. We had the opening ceremony at Vivian's school on Thursday (new wing and walls) attended by the Mayor of Cape Town, and I was very proud mentioning you all, our big international sponsors, in my speech.

The Mayor was very impressed with what private initiative has achieved at Masikhululeke and with the pride and spirit of the community around Vivian. He said government alone was unable to provide and in particular to maintain facilities, it has been proven that this only works when there is a partnership with the private sector and the community. He brought up the example of Gugulethu, a shack settlement like Masikhululeke's, where residents were up in arms about poor service delivery by local government. He reminded them of what the city had done for them over the last two years, all of which had been neglected, vandalised or destroyed. They did not take personal responsibility for improvements they were given, but that the Masikhululeke project gives him hope.

R500 of your new donation will be used as a bonus for two of Vivian's dedicated teachers. With a salary of $250 pm this will be a great Xmas present for them! The balance will be split to (a) top up the funds we need for the Christmas party on 10 December and (b) fit new colourful tops, backs and legs to the 2nd hand cabinets, a recent donation, which now replace the horrible crates that had been used as room dividers. The cabinets serve also as storage for the educational toys and equipment.

Please thank everybody for this wonderful Christmas present for Vivian and the children!

Best regards

Gisela

cell 083 556 9818

Tel/Fax 021 557 8288



----- Original Message -----

From: Neil Tubb
To: Gisela
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 9:25 PM
Subject: Money Enroute
Transferred this am 1000. Cdn ... to the club account ... should be there in
2 or 3 business days ... Hugs to all ... Neil

Bright Star Canada
Neil Douglas-Tubb (rcc)
349 Vancouver Street
Victoria BC
250 385 3181
neiltubb@shaw.ca
http:// thereisadoor.blogspot.com
http://vivianjoslovo.blogspot.com/
Hendrickse Foundation
Project Hope South Africa

The Dr Louis Volks Humanitarian Award --- Sept 30/2010

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 I sent this out via email:

I would like to announce that I have been awarded the Louis Volks Humanitarian Award ... I quote from the award document ... “This is the highest award that can be given to an individual who exemplifies outstanding humanitarian service.”

This was presented to me (via courier) by the Table View Lions Club of Cape Town South Africa ... This award came my way because of the support that we here in Canada and the USA garnered ... in dollars mainly ... to support the Lions Club Projects’ at or near Cape Town in South Africa...

This is not something that I did ... this is something that happened because of people like you who simply supported a good idea when they saw one ... we had pennies from heaven ... and I think we cleaned out decades old penny jars for miles around ... there is a tea pot campaign ... in several locations around town and every now and then ... the proprietors would bring in the contents and off it goes to South Africa ... Special thanks to Terry Cielak and Ron Kirkaldy for their efforts here ... Stelly’s High School and Ms Hayashi and her crew at the school banded together and embraced the idea and got themselves busy and raise over $700.00 ... to Ramona Elke in Mission and her crew of kids ... To Ms Cathy Clarke Smith in Arlington Washington and her crew in Middle school ... they “bake-saled” up the dollars for us ... There were several contributors whose contributions where in the hundreds of Dollars ... thanks Mike ... Collin ... David ... Silken ... and Dianna P who brought in the largest penny jar I had ever seen ... full ... to Adianne and her kids who rolled the pennies ... and rolled and rolled the pennies ... there were others ....

To all the people who spent time and effort just thinking on what to do next ... Special thanks to Silken Laumann ... who gave good guidance about “Don’t re-invent the wheel Neil alien yourself with someone who has a track record and work with them.” To Kim Van Brugen who took the time from her busy schedule to write and re write some of the stuff I was trying to put together.

To Lynn McCaughie for her time effort and encouragement ... there are many others ... but know this if you received this email you are on the good guy thank you list ... and I thank you ...

To My High School buddies Al and Dave who gave the first two donations ... and they were probably wondering ... what the heck is he up to now??? Smile

Donations came in from as far away as both London Ontario ... thanks Bob ... and London England ... thanks Alexia ... It was and is a word of mouth idea of people helping other people to create an opportunity to get on with having the life they were meant to have ...

This whole thing of the award came as a complete surprise ... and totally unexpected ... God Bless you all and thank you ...

Neil Tubb

Bright Star Canada

349 Vancouver Street

Victoria BC V8V 3T3

(250) 385 3181

neiltubb@shaw.ca

New Blog: http://thereisadoor.blogspot.com

http://vivianjoslovo.blogspot.com/

Hendrickes Foundation

Project Hope South Africa

Table View Lions Club (Cape Town)

District 410A

Western Cape,

Republic of South Africa

Dear Neil



Thank You ...

Hope this letter finds you well.

On behalf of the members and partners of our club, we would like to convey our heartfelt thanks for your continued support and generous monetary donations towards the Vissershok Primary School.

Your commitment to assist the youth is greatly appreciated and it has made a difference in the lives of the 400 scholars.

We couldn’t think of a better way to acknowledge and thank you so we are enclosing a “Louis Volks Award” and unique pin to show our appreciation. This is the highest award that can be given to an individual who exemplifies outstanding humanitarian service (especially over international waters). This prestigious award was named in honour of the founder of Lionism in Southern Africa, Dr Louis Volks.

Congratulations from all of us and well done.

We look forward to many years of mutual service to mankind.

Kind regards

President John Houston                           Governor Gisela Weitz