Vetinerary Assistance Girl Impact
Teaching
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Sports OVC: Fikelela
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Xhosa: ‘shushu’
Teaching: Red Hill Community
WHAT’S NEW ON THE GROUND? • • •
The Cape Town team has expanded, with new Business Managers Tom & Kaylee. Zandi is our new Girl Impact Specialist driving gender equality in Cape Town! Our Happy Africa Foundation intern, Lisa, spent the quarter with us.
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Children at our community Aftercare Centre showed an average knowledge increase of 42% in safety, after volunteers delivered the Safety Pillar.
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Teenagers at our community Support Group showed an average knowledge increase of 31% in safety, meaning they are better prepared for life in Khayelitsha!
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A new curriculum was devised for our English Support sessions which incorporates computer skills. These mamas now have the chance to use computers for the first time!
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Volunteers and coaches assessed ~800 children in Grades 4-7 across two Primary Schools. The children were assessed in the key areas of flexibility, agility, cardiovascular endurance, power and muscular endurance!
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Our first quarterly Interschool Competition was held between Khayelitsha United and the Langa Warriors; soccer and netball teams from our two Sports Development Schools. The participants learnt about commitment to training, sportsmanship and school pride.
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Volunteers and coaches worked in collaboration to design and trial an assessment for the younger sporting classes (Grades 1-3). Volunteers and coaches can now track the progress of students to ensure their physical development is focused and improving.
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Baseline assessments were completed by volunteers for 11 children aged 6 months – 4 years, living in emergency foster care. The children were assessed in 36 developmental areas across gross motor, fine motor and language skills.
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In collaboration with carers, the assessment tool for children was redeveloped to include an additional 10 developmental milestones to track the development of older toddlers, eg cutting skills, ability to hop and whether they could sing a familiar song.
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The President’s Award, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, is the leading youth achievement award undertaken in 144 countries. Recently it was introduced to foster care teenagers by our staff and volunteers. This program is a strategy to motivate children as they get older. Excitingly, 16 teenagers signed up, with an action plan written to ensure they are able to achieve their goals in the areas of service, skill, physical recreation and adventurous journey.
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At our after school program for children in the foster care system, attendance has grown by 155%
-Chelsie Foley, Teaching Project
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Work with preschool teachers has developed a mutual planning tool whereby volunteers plan together on a theme chosen by the preschool to ensure consistency and development for students.
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After the successful trial of a “themed based” curriculum, a more formal program was devised in partnership with our afterschool care center. Implementation of the first theme, seasons, showed a 25% increase in knowledge by children.
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Skills sharing workshops were held between grannies and volunteers at our aftercare center, with follow up activities with the children. Volunteers taught the grannies how to “swing dance” whilst volunteers were shown how to play the traditional Xhosa game of Ubuce using stones.
-Courtney, USA