“WHAT DOES HHTH DO WHEN THEY ARE NOT IN AFRICA?” (March 25, 2018 update)

We fund raise through mailings, and various venues to sell our hand crafted African Artifacts. 
Throughout the year, we recruit sponsors for our many orphans. We get food to the current 80-90 orphans who are on our feeding and education program.

Education is essential for these children to ever be able to escape poverty.  When they are hungry most of the time, they cannot not focus or concentrate on school work.  The children are sponsored by individuals who  provide resources for four distributions of a 3 month supply of food each year.   One of the distributions in the year is done by HHTH. At that time, the children receive clothes, shoes, toiletries, school supplies, the 3 Month supply of their staple foods, school fees for one semester, and other basic needs.

HHTH also serves locally to help people in need.  Here, Clark Sanford, (Board of Trustees Member) and wife Karen, joined CJ, Wayne and I to pack survival kits for the homeless in our area. The kits consisted of hat, gloves, scarf, toiletries, water, Vaseline, some food items, and other necessities. 

Then we hit the streets to hand out the bags. 

Clark and Karen know their way around Detroit, so they led the way. 

CJ’s granddaughter helped pack 50 survival packages in useful bags for the recipients. 

These ladies were thrilled to receive the gifts.  It was a cold and wet snow evening, and all 50 bags found a person delighted to receive them. 

Sidney sews all year round, making school Bags for all of our orphans in South Africa and Zimbabwe.   CJ embroidered many of the children’s names on their bag, so they will feel special. 

Our dear friend, Don Burton, convinced his cousin m, Chuck Burton to help Sidney the bags for HHTH, so Chuck makes quite a contribution. 

Another “happening” was our Guide, Janco from Africa, came to Michigan 

for a month to do jobs for CJ, and Sidney to earn money during the off season for Guide work.  

He cleaned the Bonvallet’s siding and painted and organized many rooms inside. 

Janco’s first excitement about seeing snow, quickly wore off when he faced it in African attire.  Guess those shorts don’t exactly in 20 degree weather. 

He packed many suit cases for us to take to Africa to give to our children there. 

Wayne and Sidney usually spend one or two months a year in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Jonathan Flanary, owner of Aiden’s Fabric donates great quantities of material to produce the bags we see for the children.  Jonathan truly understands our Mission work as he frequently does mission work himself in S. America. 

So many people help us help the children.  My grandson, Jacob, donated a swell pair of cowboy boots.  They are "man size" so some young man will be ecstatic to receive a bonafide pair of Texas boots!

Sidney had an open house sale the lovely African Artifacts. 

The scarves  are all made in Africa and are beautiful. 

Various elegant carvings were for sale. 

The African Batiks are always a hit 

because of the African scenes done with this ancient technique. 

HHTH sells the authentic African Artifacts at the yearly Alternative Christmas Fair 

at Hope Lutheran Church in November.   This lady determined to take a large giraffe home. 

Shiela Ricks, our friend of about 25 years, is so good to come and help us in this endeavor.

Other friends, Janie and Bobby who live in North Carolina, met us in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Janie created a better pattern for the school bag and they brought us loads of beautiful material.

The generosity of our friends and family is amazing.

This is a great adventure to do God’s work. To have so many of you join in with your “helping Hands,” touches so many hearts across the globe.  Thank you from our heart. 

Until next time . . . from the Bush with love,



Sidney and the HHTH Team