{"id":114993,"date":"2025-10-22T06:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/?p=114993"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:49:33","slug":"a-journey-of-hope-two-abraham-kriel-girls-pursue-their-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/2025\/10\/22\/a-journey-of-hope-two-abraham-kriel-girls-pursue-their-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"'n Reis van hoop: Twee Abraham Kriel-meisies jaag hul drome na"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div data-parent=\"true\" class=\"vc_row row-container\" id=\"row-unique-0\"><div class=\"row limit-width row-parent\"><div class=\"wpb_row row-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_column pos-top pos-center align_left column_parent col-lg-12 single-internal-gutter\"><div class=\"uncol style-light\"  ><div class=\"uncoltable\"><div class=\"uncell no-block-padding\" ><div class=\"uncont\" ><div class=\"uncode_text_column\" ><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs maatskaplike werker by die Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis Nylstroom het ek daagliks die voorreg om kinders op hul lewenspad te begelei. Vandag wil ek twee leerders se besondere pad met julle deel,\u201d vertel Charnel Oberholzer, maatskaplike werker by die Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis Nylstroom.<\/p>\n<p>Twee van ons dogters, Cassey Stehouwer en Tijana Bosman, is onlangs gekies vir \u0149 toer vir akademiese uitblinkers. Met hulle uitmuntende akademiese rekords sluit hulle aan by \u0149 groep wat van 3 tot 13 Oktober 2025 deur Ierland toer. Dat kinders uit \u0149 kinderhuis s\u00f3 ver kom, is besonder \u2013 dit getuig van harde werk, deursettingsvermo\u00eb en hoop.<\/p>\n<p>Toe die uitnodiging kom, het ek onmiddellik aan die uitdagings gedink: finansies, regverdigheid teenoor ander kinders, administrasie en die groot verantwoordelikheid om hierdie droom moontlik te maak. Maar met die hulp van ons bemarker, Marlien de Villiers, en die ongelooflike ondersteuning van borge, het ek gou besef: die grootste struikelblok was nie geld nie, dit was my eie ingesteldheid.<\/p>\n<p>Die proses was alles behalwe maklik: van visumaansoeke en papierwerk tot wag op dokumente en die spanning oor of ons dit betyds sou regkry. Tog het die twee dogters my deurgaans verras. Hulle het geduldig gebly, mekaar gemotiveer en selfs vir my hoop gegee toe ek begin twyfel. Waar ek h\u00falle moes kalmeer, was ek dikwels die een wat kalm gehou moes word.<\/p>\n<p>Hierdie reis het my waardevolle lesse geleer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hoop is sterker as struikelblokke.<\/li>\n<li>Ons is nooit alleen nie \u2013 spanwerk dra drome.<\/li>\n<li>Kinders in \u0149 kinderhuis is ongelooflik veerkragtig. Hulle weet wat dit is om met min klaar te kom, maar bly altyd vas glo dat drome haalbaar is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My wens aan elke kind daar buite: Jou drome is belangrik. J\u00fd is belangrik. Hou vas, al voel jou hoop so klein soos \u0149 mosterdsaadjie.<\/p>\n<p>En aan elke volwassene: Moenie so vaskyk teen jou eie struikelblokke dat jy \u0149 kind se drome in die wiele ry nie.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><script id=\"script-row-unique-0\" data-row=\"script-row-unique-0\" type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"vc_controls\">UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById(\"row-unique-0\"));<\/script><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a social worker at Abraham Kriel Children\u2019s Home Nylstroom I have the daily privilege of guiding children on their life paths. 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