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FAMILY +1

Family+1 is our response to the crisis facing orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa. The initiative aims to educate and equip families considering adoption, foster care or temporary safe care through a 7-week training course. Families are supported in their journey with care packs, connect groups and continued support. We believe every child deserves a loving and caring home as well as providing the families with a caring support system.

An amazing couple, who got behind this cause of Family + 1, was Eunice and Andre. They are married with three adult children and a business and are truly an exceptional family. In 2015 they opened their home to an abandoned, premature baby girl, weighing 1.4 kilograms, as their first foster child. In their care, she grew beautiful, big and healthy and was soon adopted by an international family. 
Their second foster care baby girl joined their family in 2016.

In 2017, a year later, with the sweetest baby girl still in their care, they were asked by their social worker if they could take in a baby boy, who was said to be in the final days of his life, with an underdeveloped heart. Without a hesitation, they did!

THE MIRACLE: It has been almost a year, and both the little boy and their second adopted girl, are still with them. 
The baby boy is doing so well and just celebrated his first birthday on 8 March 2018. The sweet little girl will be turning 2 on 18 April 2018. They have experienced favour with doctors, offering some part of their baby boys medical attention for free and through the Hillsong Africa Foundation, the Family+1 project has been able to support them further with medical costs and family support.

Eunice, an incredible mom, is now very active in gathering and inviting other foster mothers each Friday to our Hillsong Somerset West location, to join mom’s and bubs group, to do life together and to create an incredible support system!

This is JUST ONE of the incredible and life changing stories of our Family +1.

If you would like to get behind this cause, email us on:
[email protected]