THE DILEMMA - WE WOULD ALL HELP ONE CHILD IN TROUBLE, BUT WHAT DO WE DO WHEN THERE IS A MILLION?

If you saw a child drowning, would you try to save it? Even if you could not swim, would you try? We believe that most people asked that question would honestly reply “Yes I would”. But what if it was a million children drowning – and just you to help? What would you do? This is what we feel like. We know there are millions out there in desperate circumstances yet there are limits to the help we can offer to children around the world. We cannot help more than a handful – but we try. We are a business not a charity – we are very much a secular group of people and by no means religious or political, but it is very hard to be able to help so few when there are so very many that need help. We found two children recently to add to our small adopted family. Vitalis and Tendake – aged 6 and 8 respectively. They came, we think, from Binga,500 miles from Harare in Zimbabwe. We have no direct means of doing anything for anyone in Zimbabwe. We would like to but such is the political situation there, it is next to impossible. However, we did not have to go there because some three million Zimbabwean’s have migrated to South Africa and many other neighbouring countries. They live in squatter camps or hide in the bush and as most are illegal, they try to find some illicit work to make some money to feed themselves and send back to their families, many now starving, in once prosperous Zimbabwe. Vee and Tee, as Vitalis and Tendake have been nicknamed by us, came across the dangerous Limpopo River into South Africa illegally with their father. We do not know how, only that they did. Rudyard Kipling described the Limpopo as "the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees," where the "Bi-Coloured Python Rock-Snake" dwells. It is massive and sluggish and the masses around it face starvation in both flood and drought. The Limpopo is no-one’s friend and crossing at any time is a dangerous undertaking.