House of safety’s new project

Friends, family and supporters of Forever Angels, a house of safety for children in Doornpoort, endured the icy weather to show their support for this charity organisation on Friday evening.
Ursula and Marius van den Berg, founders of Forever Angels, held a small gathering with bread and soup to introduce their latest project, Friends of Forever Angels.
This is an automatic debit order system to which anyone can subscribe that would link directly to Forever Angels’ account. This subscription is also linked to a friendship card that would provide benefits for the donors as well, such as discount at selected stores.
Sadly Ursula also had to announce that Forever Angels were forced to relocate due to unforeseen circumstances. The couple has been desperately looking for a new home for their children, as they only have until the end of June to move out. Ursula said she would not give up on her dream regardless of the challenges in her way.
Forever Angels started as a small dream. Ursula always had the desire in her heart to make a difference in other people’s lives. When she was diagnosed with stage four melanoma cancer in 2005, Ursula realised how deep this desire was. Luckily she survived and is in the position to live her dream and that is to open her heart and home to abandoned, abused and HIV infected babies and toddlers.
Ursula quit her day job to dedicate herself to this cause. In 2009 she and her husband were approved as a place of safety parents by the Tshwane Place of Safety Association and the first crisis child was placed in their care. “For the first time in a long while I felt complete peace in my heart that this was not only the reality of my dream, but of my God-given desire to bring some heaven on earth to those who need it the most,” Ursula said.
The couple, along with their two biological sons, Sheldon and Dylan, can take in six babies and toddlers at a time and up to date has received 73 children.