Day 10 part 1

Today was a volunteer day, something I was really looking forward to. We meet all the volunteers who are working in different projects. There are 8 project with 32 volunteers in total this month. Some projects are located far (like our place) so we are able to visit 5 projects today.
 
First, we visited Palm Tree. This is a children's home run my an English lady who lives here in South Africa. It started with her adopting one South African child then it grew to 17 kids in a home in 12 years. Volunteers are here to help caring a children, preparing a food, feed them, bathing them, playing with them and take a charge in a home schooling. Some kids are behind their study and not able to be accepted by a local school so they are trying to educate to the entry level. House had a quite good space though 17 kids had to sleep in a tight place. There is a project going on to extend the building which funded by a local lotally. Hope they will get it sorted soon so they can live in more comfortable condition.
 
We visited the Tree Clinic next. This runs by Bobbi Bear, which we visited afterwards and the clinic has funded by a same person as Bobbi Bear, Jackie. The reason whet they call here the Tree Clinic is, there are no building. The purpose of the clinic is, they wants to educate ladies who has low self esteem (which is a cultural result) and a luck of knowledge about HIV/AIDS. So, every Wednesday, local ladies gather together under the big tree in the middle of nowhere and sing together, pray together and study together. Bobbi Bear prepare for a simple medical check and treatment too. Also, not every time but most of the time there are some foods or cloths to give out for the people who joined. (Some people walk 2 hours to join the clinic maybe because of that so they run even its raining or what). Today, it was very special because Jackie's niece married here in a traditional Zulu way. I will put photos up so you can see who it goes. I dont know why but every place I go on holiday, I bumped in to the traditional wedding. I think Im just lucky!
 
After the clinic, we visited a big building in a middle of the beautiful field. This place is used by 3 projects -  I Care, Mother of Peace and Bobbi Bear.
I Care is a rehabilitation programme for a street boys in Durban. They also run a place called Hope Centre, the outreach daycare clinic. The kids who been found on the street and not able to go back home for many reasons will be taken to this centre. Then there are a rehabilitation programme which takes 3 months to complete. Some of them are addicted to a glue or drugs, some of them needs an anger management or simple discipline training because they had nobody to teach them as they lived in a street for so long. Some need a medical help and so on. The project will try to tackle the problem at their home so the boys can go back to their own place and community during this period but if that is not possible, there are a home for them to stay and attend a local school. They own 3 houses with house mother and father in a each house. Then they can attend skills training to be ready to live in a society, not on the street any more.
 
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