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August 29 Camp #2Last weekend was the second of two camps funded by a VAST grant, the first had more of an HIV/AIDS focus, this second was more about camping for the sake of camping, though we did graduate five more kids as peer educators, adding up to ten total with over twenty kids receiving the HIV/AIDS training and an introduction to Scouts. There have been a lot of challenges in getting this group started, I have been learning as I go along, not really having any background in youth work, but I feel like we are really taking off. We have a few core kids who are very motivated, a membership of around thirty to forty in two villages, a few projects and activities that we are working on… So on the whole I feel that it is going very well, and I believe it has a future after I leave.
Other than that, I recently returned from my brother’s wedding in America which was an excellent experience, I was only there for two weeks so it wasn’t too hard coming back to South Africa. Not a whole lot else… things with my organization have pretty much ground to a halt due to the fact that they don’t have any funding now, so 100% of my focus is on the youth activities. Yesterday I went to a HIV testing event and got a t-shirt for getting tested. I am also looking towards my plans for when I return to America which is (amazingly) only 6-7 months from now I need to find employment and a place to live. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://hlekani.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C22D89D5579F495D!290.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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