Help Us Save Our Foster Home
Help Circle of Unity to buy a permanent home for children who have already lost too much.
More than six hundred abandoned and vulnerable children have found an open door in Gordon’s Bay since 2000 when Bubbles Brits began her crusade to help those who cannot help themselves. That door is on the edge of closing permanently. Unless Circle of Unity secures a permanent home, children who have already been abandoned once will lose the only secure place that has nurtured them, and the people who love and care for them will be forced to witness it fall apart. A child left once should never be twice abandoned. Circle of Unity needs to raise ZAR 7million by the end of October 2026 to stop that from happening, and YOU may be one of the few people who can help.
This is the condensed version of her journey. The longer one begins with a single woman, and with a decision she could have walked away from: to care for those of God’s children who could not care for themselves.
Her name is Bubbles Brits. She looked at vulnerable children without social support and decided she wasn't going to spend her life asking why somebody else hadn't helped. She opened the door to her heart and home instead. Circle of Unity, which operates under Immanuel's Haven, a registered NPO and PBO that works closely with the Department of Social Services, grew out of that decision. Many newborns who had been abandoned have come through it. So have toddlers, and children carrying more loss than any child should have to.
One of these is Elrico. He arrived at the age of 6 weeks. Today he sits on the board of Circle of Unity at the age of 25. That is what one open door can do, and it is exactly why what comes next is so tragic to communicate.
For a long while, the work was supported by a cohort of generous donors who made provision for the children, and by investors who believed in her mission. It bought the children something money rarely gets credit for: continuity. Then, slowly, that support thinned. Donors dwindled. The pressure grew until it was too heavy to carry, and now she is facing the thing we all hoped would never happen: she may no longer be able to keep the roof over these children's heads.
Most of us wince at the words "losing our home." For a child who has already been abandoned, they land somewhere much deeper. A home is meant to be the place where a child stops worrying about where they belong. It's where they close their eyes and trust that the same door will be there in the morning. A newborn doesn't choose to be abandoned. A child doesn't choose poverty. These children arrived needing adults to step in, and for hundreds of them, someone did. Now those adults need someone to step in for them.
So here is the part we keep coming back to: none of this is inevitable. It is a funding gap, and funding gaps can be closed. It is a tragedy that hasn't happened yet, which makes it the only kind you can still stop.
Stopping it means more than finding four walls and some beds. Your gift goes toward a suitable property in the Gordon’s Bay area, and toward making it a home that can stand on its own: a borehole is needed with water tanks to support the home with permanent wate, solar power is needed so steep electricity costs stops deciding when homework ends, and proper sanitation so the children live with dignity. After that come the everyday costs of raising children, from food and healthcare to school and transport, because a home isn't sustained by a roof alone. It is sustained by people.
Large gifts change everything, but so do hundreds of ordinary people give what they can.
And if money isn't what you have, you may still hold something we need. If you run a business, you could sponsor the solar equipment. If you build, you could donate materials or labour. If you know boreholes, we would value your assistance. Sometimes the person who changes everything isn't the one who sees this first. It's the person they send it to. So please send it on to your trusted networks.
Because somewhere ahead of us is a sentence we want to hear in this home, from a child who once had no idea where they belonged. It's only four words. "This is my home." Not "this is where I've been placed." Not "this is where I'm staying for now."
You can help make that sentence true.
