Zululand Project Updates and Achievements from Q2 2017 - African Impact

Home based care; 77

Home Assistance; 27

Hours Spent on Project Nutrition; 55

Clinic Creche ; 980 Transfers; 50 Physio; 19

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LANGUAGE LESSON: Zulu:

Sawubona – Hello Yebo – Response

After School Club

Clinic Home based care

Holiday Club ; 491

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Reading Club

Holiday Club

Clinic; 397

After School Club; 180

Creche

Home Assistance

Reading Club; 778

Nutrition Clinic Transfers

WHAT’S NEW ON THE GROUND? • New Project Manager, Kate Haggerty, joined us on 8 April.

• New Reading Club started at a local village, including English lessons.

• New HIV Awareness lessons for Grade 6 & 7 students began.

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3 separate groups of children in the local villages now receive English lessons each week. This impacts over 100 children per week.

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A new reading club has been established at Ezwenalisha village. We have around 50 children each week who are eager to read and improve their English.

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We have started English lessons once per week with the local orphanage.

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5kg of onions, egg plants and beetroots were harvested from the community gardens. These were divided between the support group members that we work with in the villages.

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We replanted the garden to continue to provide fresh vegetables.

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Volunteers delivered 8 workshops to the support groups, with topics including malaria, breast cancer, healthy diets and mental illness.

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Volunteers delivered home assistance to 11 house-bound patients. We helped with cleaning, washing and ensuring fresh clean water is available.

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We assisted 397 patients in the local community clinic, where volunteers support the medical staff by taking vital signs for the patients.

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Our team started to work with a local physiotherapist to improve the quality of service to our community members. She now comes out with us once per week, showing the patients some new exercises to help them recover.

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We began HIV awareness lessons with 2 new schools. 285 children have been through the course, with a 92% pass rate.

“To see the children so eager to learn about HIV prevention, and to help dispell the myths that exist in these villages made my trip so worthwhile. I will never forget the experience in St Lucia.’

Michael Aparicio – Education Volunteer

“I was very keen to see some of the amazing African wildlife during my trip, so the team in St Lucia helped to organise a trip to Leopard Mountain Private Game reserve. The accommodation was amazing and the food stunning. The highlight had to be the 2 game drives, where we saw giraffes ‘necking’, elephants and their babies, and lions too. To see these amazing animals in their natural environment was a sight to behold.”

- Katie Edwards, UK

“My trip to St Lucia was special in so many ways. I was not completely ready for the poverty in the community we work in, but the children are truly amazing. I was involved with helping to deliver the HIV Awareness lessons to 2 primary schools. We went each morning to the schools where we had 35 children in each class. At first it felt a bit awkward taking so frankly about sex and HIV with children aged 9-11, but they were wonderful about it all. It’s such an important subject as HIV is so prevalent in the area. The work African Impact does with the children is a vital step in helping to educate the children about the illness, prevention and transmission. It was a true privilege to have been part of

the great team.”

- Pete Galloway, Education Volunteer, USA.