The creche is served by a group of dedicated teachers, amongst them is Miriam Lunika whom we have worked with for well over five years in our journey of brining hope and development in the community of Masinenge. Originally from Matatiele, a small town in the Eastern Cape Nomthetho Miriam Lunika spends her time between her home between the neighbouring Gamalakhe township and Masinenge.

From around 2009 while working as a community caregiver, the following year Miriam would also join the creche as a volunteer. “I saw how the creche was being vandalized, with members of the community often walking through the school premises as a means of taking shortcuts. Some would even use the pre-school ablution facilities to relieve themselves and I knew it wasn’t right.

We eventually received sponsorships to put up burglar guards. We also volunteered with cleaning inside the creche,” Miriam said. In 2015 while I was working as a community caregiver in Masinenge and within the local ward committee I came across Abounding Hope and they were already heavily involved in the community. They were already running a soup kitchen and 2017 we began working together to as they were
looking to add an additional kitchen. Through my job as secretary of the ward committee we were able to partner up with our Ward Councillor to add a soup kitchen into the creche,” she said.