Monthly Archives: July 2012
Our First Anniversary
To celebrate our first anniversary in August we arranged a thanks giving party. It was imcredible to know that we were slowly but surely making a difference in our school. Thanks to Mr Zungu for his support. We still dream … Continue reading
Makaphutu Children’s Village
From the onset, we had incredible support from everyone at Makaphutu Children’s Village. Several of our members live at Makaphutu and we are inspired by the work that they do in the community. Mr Wade Woods was incredibly helpful in … Continue reading
High School Leadership Training
In December 2010, the Committee attended the High Schools Leadership Training Course at World Changers Academy (http://www.wca-sa.org/index.html) where they learnt many skills and made new friends. Ten other members had the priviledge to attend the same course in 2011 – … Continue reading
Clothing
Sphelele’s mom and a few other people enabled us to give some clothing to those who needed it most.
First Meals
From our observations, questionnaires that we sent out and interviews with the teachers, we determined which children needed to be part of the feeding scheme (approximately 40). We were very excited when we served the first meals at school and everyone loved the … Continue reading
Raising Funds – Vegetable Gardens
We want to provide food, schoolfees and school uniforms for those who cannot afford it, and to achieve this we planted vegetables to use for food and to sell to raise funds. Our first garden was at Light Providers. Sadly goats came … Continue reading
2010: Mentor
We approached Mrs Linda Locke, whom we knew from our involvement with Light Providers, to be our mentor. She agreed to assist us with networking and to support us. It is important to have some adults to discuss things with.
2010: Membership Cards
Our membership numbers grew steadily. Many of our peers wanted to help and have an opportunity to be part of progress. We split the members into groups and appointed a representative from each group to be responsible for the running of … Continue reading
2010: The Committee
We form a group to formalise our plans and appoint a committee of 3: Andile Nyanda, Sindi Mkhize and Sizwe Ngwane.
2010: Our Observations
We notice that there are children in our school who do not have food during breaks, or even at home. We start trying to help them using our own pocket money. We buy sweets and try to sell it, but … Continue reading
The Provision Xhasa 