Starting this month of February, a group of volunteers and community members of the Institute will be donating their time and skills to support us in giving our front entrance a much needed face lift. 

If you've been a member of our community and visited the Institute lately you probably have noticed how the front entrance has been looking rather pale and flat.  At the end of last year we took down the flow forms and together with Brian Johnson, the designer of the building, we made the decision to pave over where the old water fountain was.  The dream that we have is to install a sculpture symbolising the "Ubuntu Spirit" consisting of a wrought iron figure of the world, illuminated by an internal fire flame emanating out of Africa that will greet visitors and keep them warm when they come to our evening events.    We envision our front entrance not only having the sculpture, but to also welcome our visitors with ornamental plants, a lush garden of vines and potted plants that will not only be visually stimulating, but that also inspire the soul.

To this effect a team of volunteers, community members and staff has decided to donate their skills, talents and resources on Fridays of Saturdays of every week to help us realize our dream of making our front entrance something that we can all be proud of.   Last week we had our first meeting and we were very grateful for the participation of Talfryn Harri, Allan Wise, Mark Clifton, Marine Larrive, Irieza Fortune, Mandy Vlotman and her husband Chris, as well as other members of our staff.   Thank you so much guys!  We so appreciate your willingness to support our mission.

We look forwad to begining this wonderful project this Friday and Saturday!

If you are interested in helping us with this project by donating your time, skills or financial resources please contact Gabriel Gonsalves at (021) 797-1857 or (079) 039-9693