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ITHEMBA TRUST & ORANGE GROVE FARM

HOPE STARTS HERE

HOPE SEES THE INVISIBLE, FEELS THE INTANGIBLE, AND BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE

Orange Grove, Tarkastad

Non-profit EDUCATION, BRINGING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION TO RURAL SOUTH AFRICA

iThemba Trust was founded with a dream to uplift the community of Tarkastad and the surrounding areas in the rural poverty-stricken Eastern Cape of South Africa. iThemba Trust breathes hope into young lives by providing them with an education of excellence surrounded by the simplicity and beauty of a healthy country lifestyle. iThemba Trust was founded in 2008 by Kitty Phillips as the founder and Angela Price as the co-founder. The trust was founded to be a custodian of the vision Kitty Phillips had in 2002.

iThemba Trust

iThemba Trust is a 502(c)3 organisation established under the Jernigan Foundation in the USA. The trust is also a registered Non Profit Organisation 065-781-NPO, as well as a Public Beneficiary Organisation 930031826 (PBO) in South Africa. Officially since 2009, iThemba has functioned as the umbrella covering and resource pool for everything that takes place on Orange Grove Farm.

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Orange Grove

Orange Grove Farm is where we are. You can find us just outside of Tarkastad, in rural South Africa. This is where everything happens – it is the place God has given us, and it is where we are watching His heart being unearthed before us. Come and see!

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Choose Alternative Education

We provide excellent education in order to build hope and address the challenges of illiteracy, poverty, unemployment and broken families in our community, all within the context of a beautiful, country lifestyle. Our goal is to establish a safe facility to nurture, train and disciple children and adults through Christian beliefs. Our dream is that Orange Grove Farm would be self-sustaining: That established communities and families would be able to live, eat, grow, learn and thrive together.

A place where children and adults can live out their dreams in harmony with each other, and in relationship with God.

COMMUNITY

EXCELLENCE

TRANSFORMATION

“Bring the children home and train them in the ways of the Lord. Take living stones (children), and build them together into something that will glorify God.”

Kitty Phillips, 2002

“Every child deserves to discover their God-given purpose, and then live it.”

Anonymous

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