Hours spent on project Clinic Assistance, 75
4% 7%
Home Based Care, 120
17%
Nutrition, 18 Support Group, 54
24% 28% 4%
28 ˚C
Creche, 105 After School Club, 16
12% 4%
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Rural Family Support, 15
Reading Club, 32
WHAT’S NEW ON THE GROUND? LANGUAGE LESSON: Zulu: ‘Hambe kahle” Means ‘Go well’
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Elisa joined the team as our African Impact Foundation intern for 3 months
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A local spear fisherman caught a world-record Marlin, weighing an incredible 375 kilograms! The fish was kindly donated to our nutrition patients and other community members, feeding around 300 people!
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Volunteers spent 105 hours in creche, where they taught over 1500 children about numbers, colors, shapes, the alphabet and several other themes, including hygiene and health
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The weekly reading clubs in the villages of Khula and Ezwenelisha were attended by 395 students. The young students focused on alphabet recognition, while the older students worked on reading comprehension and writing a poem
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Volunteers worked for over 15 hours with our Family Empowerment Initiative families to help clean their homes and yard, and to provide fun activities for the children
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December was filled with graduation parties at several crèches in our communities. We are incredibly proud of the young students that have completed crèche and will enter grade R in 2019
“The five of us went on a road trip to Swaziland this weekend. We picked up a rental car in town, and made our way to the border. We thought that the roads in South Africa were a bit bumpy, the roads in Swaziland are worse! After arriving safely at our lodge, we went on a game drive, where we saw lots of rhino, impala, giraffe and an elephant.”
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Volunteers spent nearly 50 hours in the local medical clinic, attending to over 600 patients. Another 25 patients were transferred to the clinic by our volunteers
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The homeopathy clinic runs only one week per month. Volunteers assisted clinic staff by taking vitals, ensuring all the patients can be seen by the doctors
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Several workshops regarding HIV and AIDS were delivered in the clinic and around the community
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Volunteers visited 13 homes for Home Assistance, visited 76 general Home Based Care patients, tended to the wounds of 43 Wound Care patients and exercised with 23 Physiotherapy patients
“I learned the true universal power of a smile. Wherever I was, I found that the transformative power of a smile had the ability to create a conversation, regardless of culture or language” Hunter Hicks, Medical Volunteer
Until next time…