Thursday 21st February
Today we visited another community that Hands at Work are
partnered with called Mafambisa. Mafambisa is the community that Wolgarston
directly support. Mafambisa care point was first set up in 2017 so it is quite a
new care point, therefore there were quite a lot of differences compared to the
community of Share that we visited just a few days ago. With Share, I assumed
that the care point would be a lot smaller, however when we arrived it was much
bigger than I first expected. On the other hand, Mafambisa was the opposite. Originally,
I thought Mafambisa would be quite a large care point, whereas when we arrived
it was a lot smaller. When I looked at a small part of a picture of Mafambisa
before we arrived in South Africa I tried to create an image in my mind of what I
thought it would look like, however when we arrived it was nothing like what I’d
imagined prior to the trip.
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| The new cooking shelter - taking shape |
The new cooking shelter that we at Wolgarston had helped
raise money for has started to look more permanent and is looking as though it
will really help the care workers in making the children’s meals everyday.
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| Two care volunteers cook in the existing cooking shelter |
When we arrived today at Mafambisa, we were all set to work immediately
with jobs like helping the care workers prepare food hours in advance to
actually having the meal and also helping cut the long grass next to the care
point with a machete. Soon after We all visited the pastor of the church that
is used for the care point, who welcomed us into his home and we had the chance
to see the food that the care point gets all from just a little storage room in
the back of the pastor’s home.
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| Today's lunch... nearly ready! |
The care point is based in a
church and around the church there is a well used slide, a grass area with some
tyres that is covered by the shade of two very big trees that the children of
Mafambisa loved to climb (the shade was greatly appreciated by the team) and
there was a wooden shelter next to the new permanent shelter being built, where
the two care workers who were there today, Leratto* and Busi*, were cooking up
the pap, beans and carrots & cabbage. The team always look forward to the
pap even though today`s was very hot and difficult to pick up with just our
fingers!
Today`s activities consisted of getting
to know the care workers then later on as the children gradually arrived all
the team began to play with the them. Piggy backs, football and the nerf
throwing toy were the most popular activities for the children. They also really
enjoyed borrowing everyone`s hats!
*Not their real names.
By
Adam and JamesSome more photos from today...
