Sustainable community development
We are currently lucky enough to have two
long term interns with us in Gordon’s Bay. They have recently completed their
projects and are now on their work placements. Both projects fit into how we,
as an organisation, would like to develop our role in the communities we work
in, in Cape Town.
Sarah has been working at Ikhayalethemba,
specifically developing a special needs training package that she will, in her
placement capacity, deliver to new volunteers.
As the orphanage is soon to open a specific centre for the special needs
children there, this particular training will be vital for the continued
development of our special needs understanding and programme. Her initial
training session was a great success and Sarah will continue this as she works
with us at Ikhayalethemba. She will also develop the individual children’s
profiles so that the work we do can become more and more tailored to their
specific needs.
Corina has been working at our Grade R
project site, developing the structure and routine of the work that we do
there, assisting the grade R teacher. But her project has been focusing on the
work experience placements that we are hoping to develop across many of our
project sites. The first one that is in the initial stages, is a placement
working as an assistant librarian at ACJ. We already have the lucky student and
we are putting the final touches to his schedule and he will start soon to make
the books of ACJ library accessible to the students and teachers. In addition to this, Corina has been working
on a presentation and workshop to deliver to a group of local high school
students and teachers to engage them in the idea and hopefully find our next
placement student so that we can expand the programme.
The work that both Corina and Sarah are
doing is crucial to the way that we hope to move forward with our community
partners in Cape Town and we owe them a big debt of thanks for the hard work
that they are putting in, it really will make a big difference.
Melanie Welfare- Internship Coordinator
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