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Text Box: The Potter’s House changed my life! My name is Simangele and I lived in The Potter’s House from June 2005 until January 2006. When I entered The Potter’s House with daughter, I had no purpose for my life. I was very naughty that I do not know how they managed to live with me. I was not listening at all. But the love that the staff had for us made me think twice. I started to learn a lot of things. I learned how to live with many people, how to share with them and how to love them. What I was seeing as challenges and difficulties, they turned to make me a responsible mother for my daughter. Because I am HIV positive, I was focusing on death instead of life. But now I am alive. I am no longer drinking and I go to church. I am a youth leader in my church, and this makes me happy because I teach them more about this disease. If you see me now you will not believe that it was me in 2005! I now look beautiful, calm and focused. I know what I want in my life and I am working towards my vision. The most important thing that I learned in The Potter’s House is to pray. They also prayed for me. The evening prayers were so wonderful. I was struggling with my child’s school fees, then Mrs Catherine Makwakwa after talking with the staff of The Potter’s House, paid for my daughter. That was really the answer to prayers. I started by being a counselor in hospital, which gave me a small salary to rent my own room with my daughter. Then I was promoted to work in a pharmacy as an assistant, now I am studying at UNISA and I have accommodation there until I finish to study. I am looking forward to buy my own car and to have subsidies for my own house. And I am planning to get married one day. All this because of The Potter’s House. May God continue to bless the work that they are doing in the lives of many women. Simangele Former Potter’s House woman

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