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GOOD NEWS:
Our First Children's Village is under construction!
On August 27th, 2006, ICAN celebrated the beginning of construction of its first "Children's Village" for AIDS orphans and other children at risk in Soweto, South Africa.
The Village "cornerstone" was manufactured with our own brick-making machine, which is the first of many such machines that will not only produce materials to build our Villages, but will launch building materials businesses in our local communities as well, enabling us to become self-supporting and to raise our children in the ways and skills of the free-enterprise system.
ICAN's South African sister organization, the Worldwide Children's Aid Network (WeCAN), with the encouragement of the South African government, will be in charge of day-to-day construction and administration of our Villages. ICAN's co-founders, Dr. Bill and Barbara Peters, who just returned from Africa, report that morale is "over the top" -- and our reputation as people who deliver on our commitments is well established.
Thousands attended the first Children's Village celebration, following an official motorcade to the "ground-breaking", during which Dr. Peters announced the good news that land has been donated for a second Children's Village to be built in Gauteng Province and a third in Mapulanga Province five hours north of Johannesburg.
ICAN Co-founder and director Barbara Peters and 'her kids', half of whom are orphans, in the Hospital Hill neighborhood of Soweto awaiting their Children's Village Number One, which is currently under construction.
