Site meeting in Tubatse

The meeting started of with a long discussion of the envisaged structural alterations, explaining what will happen where.

Even though a series of informations are still needed from our engineer Flemming, the exact positioning and the measurement that will help Flemming to conclude his elaborations have been taken.  

and the 'new' reinforced columns have been signed on the floor slabs.

Philip Magane is the 'boss' of the contractor doing the work on site. And thanks to his engagement we have been able to meet a series of other professionals and suppliers in and around Tubatse.

Then we verified all our considerations and measurements taken so far, and here it becomes evident how complex the extra reinforcement will actually be.

Big strategic 'off-site' meeting in Johannesburg

with:
Flemming Gustafsson - engineer sorting out the foundation and the sand-bag buildings,
Niels Matthiessen - head of Humana/South Africa,
Webster Magunje - job captain on site in Tubatse,
Dustin Tusnovics - architect, host of the meeting and the man behind the camera and
Sarah Calburn - my partner in crime!!

. . . and work continous

and then finishes in a nice game, on the new trampoline.

Work has resumed on the building site

Today, Thursday the 10th of February 2011 marked the start of our
Construction work with the new contractor (Magane Enterprises).  As we
all know that we met with them last Thursday to agree on the work and
to be done and all the terms of reference, they have now started the
work after receiving the Contract of work with the Job Description,
Specifications and the expectations.

Today (Thursday 10 February 2011) in the morning they started by
digging the foundation in the Main Hall so as to add the third line of
bricks on the Foundation.  That was successfully done and finished.

  

After digging the foundation we the moved to preparing and pouring 
concrete on the foundation for the Library. We managed to reach halfway 
and are going to finish tomorrow before lunch. The new team together with 
the Volunteers were all in high spirits and that made it all possible to achieve 
what we achieved today.

 

The plan for Friday the 11th of February is to finish pouring the
concrete for the library and possibly start brick-laying on the
foundation for the main Community Hall.

by Webster Magunje (Humana)

January 2011 - after a long summer break, we are all back to the building site - and this is the situation.

. . . most floor slabs are done, and the sandbags are ready to be set used in the walls . . .

. . . due to the heavy rain, many areas are overgrown with grass, which is been eliminated now . . .

. . . as soon as the weather stabilises, and all the contractors are back on site, work will resume . . .

. . . the foundations for the roof are at present being calculated and will be the next excavations to happen . . .

. . . Nondumiso is busily studying the latest news for the building site . . .

. . . in the meantime a container has been rented to relocate the office for the period of construction . . .

. . . and this is Webster, who is currently supervising the building process and liaison person between all partners involved, not always an easy task . . .

. . . South Africa is a political nation . . .

























. . . with the most beautiful landscape, especially at the moment, thanks to the incredible amount of rain that has fallen in Limpopo. Let us get ready for the next steps.

SAP – HUMANA: Computers for “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse Community Centre” in Ribacross

Press release:

Press release:

Press release:

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection. 

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

Press release:

SAP – HUMANA:

Computers for “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse Community Centre” in Ribacross

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

Press release:

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration  with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

Press release:

SAP – HUMANA:

Computers for “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse Community Centre” in Ribacross

SAP Austria Ltd. handed over 10 computers and equipment to HUMANA People to People Austria in a small ceremony in the SAP training center in Vienna. The devices will compete their journey to South Africa in the coming weeks, where the visitors of the new community center of the HUMANA Children's Aid project in Tubatse, Limpopo Province, will use them for computer training and internet access.

CAT – Community Centre is built this year by HUMANA Austria in close coopration with the named Austrian architect Prof. Dr. Dustin A. Tusnovics and the child-aid project “CAT – Child Aid Tubatse” of HUMANA People to People South Africa. The building-complex is situated in the village Ribacross, about 10 km south of Burgersfort in Greater Tubatse, Limpopo, on the R 37. It will be completed in spring 2011 and will then be open to a 25,000 people from surrounding villages.

At total of 1,000 m2, there will be an assembly hall, two workshop-rooms for jobtraining courses, a new office for the child-aid project, a medical center for the care of HIVpositive people and their families, a "Stopp crime"-center for women and young victims of crime, a school kitchen, a day boarding school and a large library with computers and internet connection.

HUMANA spokeswoman Katharina Feldmann:” The community centre in Tubatse will provide increased oportunities for the child-aid project “CAT-Child Aid Tubatse” to improve the lifes of the people in the region. HUMANA financed the project with the surplus of sale and collection of clothes. However, we are pleased, that we could win several well-known companies - like SAP – to be enthusiastic about this project. The computers we have got now are a great value for our friends in Tubatse. We are very grateful and thank SAP warmly on behalf of children and their families in Tubatse! "

FOSA-Xmas Market in Vienna, 4. December 2010 (click for more)

Building CAT-Centre Tubatse!

A lot of nice people, a cosy location in the city of Vienna, juwelery and handicraft from Kwa Zulu Natal, books, original victuals like – biltong, honey, Amarula - , a lot of interesting chats and over all the wonderful smell of koeksister, bobotie and bredie – this was this year’s Xmas Market of the Friends of South Africa /FOSA/ in Pointers Vienna last Saturday.

HUMANA Austria was there – informing about “CAT – Child Aid Centre Tubatse”, selling symbolic sandbags to raise funds for the construction of our project.

Highlight was the visit of H. E. Xoslisa Mabhongo, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa in Vienna, stressing in his speech the importance of the activities of HUMANA Austria – raising funds by clothes collection and sale – for building a common good future together with our friends in Tubatse. 

He handed over a pretty full big bag of used clothes to the representative of HUMANA Austria, who in her turn forewarded warm and heartful thanks for the support and the constructive cooperation with the Embassy and the Friends of South Africa, a cooperation, which will be deepened and enlarged in the future.

/Katharina Feldmann, HUMANA Public Affairs/

NEXT STEPS - 2011

well, at the moment we are preparing for the forthcoming summer and the x-mas holidays that see all South Africa stopping with work from mid December to mid January.
But we will be hastily starting to work on the completion of the floor slabs, so that we can get the sandbag walls up as soon as possible.


We are finalising all the details to be able to realise the big roof structure starting with end January so that we can do all the remaining building work under the shadow giving roof up in Tubatse

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SO HAVE A HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON FOR NOW AND SEE YOU ALL AGAIN IN 2011!!!

First Sand bag structure - the security room

Also a first test run with sandbags has been done . . .






. . . and the security room was realised up to approx. 1 meter,











. . . we only had to undo all of the structure again, because the sandbag wall cannot be put under the natural ground level -









learning from mistakes.

Working on the site

Since August Humana has put Webster, a young man with great experience to the building site, and so finally we are all under control . . . . ,






. . . . as he is checking that the architect takes decisions, Humana gets the money allocated to the project, the volunteers have a clear idea of what they are doing, building materials are on site, machines get hired on time, etc etc etc . . . . ,







. . . so imagine the job Webster has taken over!








but finally the building site has started and the foundations are being done.









so far we have made the foundation and the brick wall that will contain the infill on which the slab will be cast.