Mike Howe House for Boys opened in Kwasa
Reverend Sharron Anne Dinnie, in partnership with various other benefactors, has opened the Mike Howe Boy's House.
Benefactors gathered for the opening and blessing ceremony at Kwasa on February 6.
This has been an ongoing project for the St Peter and St Paul Anglican Church.
The house itself will hold up to 18 orphaned boys from the nearby informal settlement in Daggafontein.
The house was opened a year after the John Crane House for Girls.
It took a total of four months to build the house and Sharron’s next aim is to access funding to assist with feeding and cleaning costs.
House mother Josephine Mahlangu, will live in the house with the boys and take care of them.
Rev Dinnie also announced that Kwasa College has achieved independent school status.
She says that in terms of the vision for Kwasa, her immediate aim is to raise funds for the building of two classrooms in preparation for the need there will be next year of accommodating the Grade Ones and Twos.
