Bambanani Projects

02/04/2026

31/03/2026

✨ A Year of Growth, Faith & Advocacy ✨

Dear Bambanani Community,

As we step into this season, we want to take a moment to reflect on the journey of Bambanani Projects over the past year.

It has been a year filled with growth, stretching, and deep faith.

We have walked alongside families through foster care and adoption journeys — some beautiful, some challenging, and many still unfolding. We have seen courage rise in families saying “yes” to vulnerable children, and we have stood in the gap where there has been uncertainty, waiting, and real challenges.

Our heart has remained the same:
🤍 To advocate for the orphaned and vulnerable
🤍 To support and equip families
🤍 To trust God in every step

Even in delays beyond our control, we choose to stand in prayer and trust God’s timing.

And so, we continue.

We continue to pray.
We continue to advocate.
We continue to trust God to make a way where there seems to be no way.

We also believe that God is still calling families to open their hearts and homes. The need is great, and the call is real.

If you have ever felt stirred to foster, adopt, or simply learn more — we would love to connect with you.

🙏 Please stand with us in prayer for:
• Breakthrough in processes
• Protection over children in care
• Strength for families walking this journey
• More families to say “yes”

Thank you for being part of this journey with us.

With love,
Bambanani Projects 🤍
Henk Kleinschmidt Marise Kleinschmidt
Jacque Mauer Cindy Darlene Ria Mauer

23/12/2025

Thank you Jade's Plumbing for making our 16 families with 70 children part of this beautiful Christmas donation🙌🏽🎄🫶🏽🌟 May your business keep shining brightly in our city! Jesus is King! 👑

17/12/2025

As we come to the end of another year, our hearts are overflowing with gratitude.
Looking back, we stand in awe of the Lord’s goodness and His faithfulness over Bambanani Projects. This year, we had the privilege of seeing so many little ones find loving, safe, and joy-filled families in our city. Every placement, every breakthrough, every restored life is a testimony of His mercy and His heart for the orphan.

To every safety parent, foster and adoptive family who opened their homes… thank you. You are living out the Gospel in the most beautiful, practical way. To our sponsors, local churches, volunteers, and friends—your prayers, generosity, and unwavering support carried us through every challenge. We truly couldn’t do this without you.🫶🏽

As we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, we pray that His peace fills your homes this Christmas season🎄

May the Lord continue to use us all to bring hope, healing, and family to every child who needs it.🧡 #2026

With love and gratitude,
Team Bambanani

28/11/2025

John 16:33🔥
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”✝️

One of our incredible Bambanani mamas passed away last week😭💔 We lovingly called her Mama Amalinda🫶🏽 She carried such a deep, burning heart for the orphaned children in our city. She longed to see every institutionalised child placed in a safe, loving family. At the age of 52, the Lord began stirring her heart toward adoption.

She registered with us, attended our information and online training sessions, and began visiting The King’s Children’s Home. Before long, a precious little girl was placed in her care, and they were preparing to begin the adoption process early in 2026.

Mama Amalinda, we love you. We miss you💔 And we promise to make sure your precious baby is well cared for. She is loved. She is the Lord’s BELOVED🩷 Thank you for living out the Word of God with such purity and obedience — James 1:27: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress…”

Little “Thandi” is currently in safety care with one of our Bambanani families. We are praying and trusting the Lord for a new forever family for her🙏🏾🙌🏽🧡🏡 If you would like more information, please contact Cindy Darlene Ria Mauer or Marise Kleinschmidt.

Our city urgently needs more families willing to open their hearts and homes to abused and abandoned children❤️‍🩹 Reach out if you want to learn more about the screening process.

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12/11/2025

“International Orphan Awareness Month is observed in November to raise awareness for the millions of orphaned and vulnerable children worldwide and to advocate for their care, with specific focus on promoting family-based care, adoption, and fostering. The month encourages prayer, support for foster and adoptive families, and direct action to provide children with safe, loving, and stable environments.” ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

18/10/2025

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14/10/2025

So grateful to the Lord for providing an incredible family for this beautiful baby girl in need of a foster family! Naomi Menton John Menton
Thank you, Menton family, for opening up your heart and home — you’re truly an inspiration, and we are soooo blessed to know you🤗

May the Lord pour out His abundant blessings over your family, fill your home with His peace and joy, and continue to use you mightily as His hands and feet to the most vulnerable.🏡🧡

We are family!🫶🏽 Bambanani families!🧡

🇿🇦 Cindy Darlene Ria Mauer Henk Kleinschmidt Marise Kleinschmidt Aflame Ministries

09/10/2025

Today, these precious children were placed in foster care with one of our incredible Bambanani families! 💛 These kids have endured unimaginable neglect, pain and trauma — yet today marks the start of healing, love and belonging.

This incredible family waited 11 long months to finally welcome them “home” — and today, their hearts and home are overflowing with pure joy!

The system may have failed these children… but God never did.

📖 “You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you do afflict them in any way, and they cry out at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry.” – Exodus 22:22-23

And Jesus heard their cry!🛡️⚔️

We urgently need to see change in our city. There are far too many children left for too long in institutions, longing for family-based care.💔

Every single one of us can make a difference!

Social workers, Home Affairs, and the courts — you must do better! Our children deserve your best! And most of all… we, the Church, must rise up and do better! 😭🙌🏽🙏🏾
We are called to be the hands and feet if Jesus — to step in where others have failed, to love where others have turned away, and to bring healing where there has been brokenness.

Jesus is worthy of it all!✝️

🔥 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress…” – James 1:27

Thank you to every family who has opened their heart and home to our city’s orphanded, abandon, abused and neglected children!🇿🇦💔❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🔥



Henk Kleinschmidt Cindy Darlene Ria Mauer

06/10/2025

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Please help us find this sweet girl a forever family 💛
Kindly share far and wide 💛🙏

14/09/2025

Happy Birthday to our CEO Henk Kleinschmidt🥳🎈 Thank you for everything you do, especially behind the scenes! Thank you for your passion for orphan care in our city! What a joy it is to serve our Lord with you. Blessings, Team Bambanani🧡