Most of you must be wondering what is happening at Bonnie People...

I have not written a blog in ages, although it feels like yesterday. The problems at the project, with WIlliam and personal problems were getting just too much and I needed space.

Normally I do tours in Namibia every year from May to September but this year an oppurtunity came along to work as a chauffeur for a film company that is filming the next Mad Max movie in Namibia called "Fury Road". I applied knowing that I will have a lot of time - waiting - but that is exactly what i need to clear my thoughts.
I got the job and since June I am now in Swakopmund for the next few months.
To leave my home, guesthouse, Bonniepeople project and William for a few months not just a few weeks needed a lot of organizing and I consoled myself time and again if I was in an accident not able to do all this work - someone else would have jumped in to do it.
For Bonniepeople Lee jumped in. And actually it is very good that I am so far away - now she can make the project - her project - and not "Heidi's project". I am always available on e-mail to help out but Lee is very capable and she has got a team together with her now that I think will take the project on a more visible path and not an "idealistic dreamers path" like I have been. My main duty for the project will be to find more sponsors and the first of those is our local Rotary Club that has received a grant of R to spend just on Bonniepeople. Is that not fantastic?

But there are a lot of needs and at the moment it is as follows:
1. Money to pay realistic salaries for trained staff
2. Money to pay for Williams needs, his caretaker and for future eduaction of his children
3. Money for accommodation needs of Volunteers that want to come and help at Bonniepeople.
4. Money to help foster families that take in abandoned children.
5. Money for the local dance school to take in more needy children, especially for paying for dance shoes, clothes, transport and lunches.
6.Money to develop the local soccer team, especially for transport to attend matches in other towns.
And so the list goes on...
I have big plans for this but more about this in my next blog.