Hello faithful Naomi’s Joy family and friends

 

It is with great excitement that we start another year of adventuring together. 

 

As we speak, we have five little lives in our care, the responsibility on our families is huge and they are so faithful in their dedication to the needs of these little ones.

 

With all the donations from our loving valley and beyond community we have managed to keep our babies resourced with baby goods galore, as well as our shop well stocked. Covid has brought a decline in sales, but praise God we have managed to stay afloat. We started 2021 with a huge blessing of 6 months rent being covered upfront by a generous donor.

 

Covid has also been hard on care families and babies who have got “stuck” due to delays in adoptions and processes. We are glad to say that not all have been delayed and we have a  little girl soon to be advanced into her forever home.

 

As an organisation we are constantly looking to see how we can increase our care family base, increase our funding, support our current families and staff our shop.  This is not an easy task when you have no full time staff members. We are solely supported by volunteers, except for a 16hour a week shop manager’s position. All our volunteers are involved on many levels in the community and their own income earning endeavours. We are also making every effort to keep our compliance standards and be advocates for vulnerable children in our community.

 

We feel honoured to be doing what we are doing and would value your continued support. If any one has a morning a week they could volunteer in the shop, you would lighten our load considerably. Please contact Renee or Helen at shop@naomisjoy.com  for more details.

 

If you would like to help us increase our effectiveness and would like to be a care family please contact Jane or Renee at jane@naomisjoy.com or shop@naomiscom.

 

If prayer is your strength then please message us on 0832542001 to be added to our watts app prayer group.

 

Financial donations can be made through our website or directly into our bank. (add bank details), we also have a Back a Buddy account should you want to donate your birthday gifts with us.

 

Greeting you all until next time.

 

Jane for Team Joy