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| Some views of the newly built and painted care point at Mafambisa |
After an early start we took part in a Monday morning
meeting at the Hands at Work Hub with the Hands community. This consisted of
hearing any notices, taking part in worship and spending time around the
village to take time to think about the children and careworkers that we were
due to visit and to say a prayer for them. Shortly followed our departure to
Mafambisa, which was a new experience for most of the team. Upon arrival we saw
the careworkers already preparing the meal for the children due to come later
on in the day. We were greeted by careworker, Lily*, who was greatly amused by
our failed attempts to speak Siswati. A couple of the team got asked to help
prepare some of the vegetables; we chopped some onions and grated some carrots.
Meanwhile, a few children arrived at the carepoint and quickly seemed keen to
interact with us. We sat for a while under a tree where one of the children was
fascinated by Daisy’s hair bobbles and her bracelet; he would transfer the bobbles back and forth between each of our wrists… he absolutely loved it! A little while later, some more children arrived at the carepoint and were eager to ask our names and get us involved in some games. A couple of us joined in a netball and a football game, which quickly became very competitive! Towards the end of our time at the community, we helped the careworkers serve the food to the children in age order. It was lovely to see the older children making sure that the younger ones had a meal first. After all of the children had eaten, we got offered a meal ourselves which we all enjoyed and were grateful for. Once we had finished our meal, we said our goodbyes (for now!) and that we were excited to see them again on Wednesday. All in all, it was a lovely day and we all enjoyed visiting Mafambisa for the first time. We are all now fed and showered and getting ready for bed, preparing for a long day visiting Share tomorrow!
*name changed