success in life - for youth, by youth
NEMATO CHANGE A LIFE
year by year 2017
FunDza Reading Programme
We introduced the FunDza reading programme for high school youth to our members. FunDza from Cape Town donated us a box full of books and they also offer on-line reading and writing. The biggest strength of their programme is that their stories are for and by township youth. The stories are very real for our members and for the first time we see members reading books with passion!
Youth Day (16 June)
It was our eleventh birthday on June 16 (Youth Day). We celebrated the day watching the movie Sarafina! We played soccer on the beach and had our favourite food from our Add Hope food donor KFC.
Gold Members trip to PE (10 June)
Members who have at least 90% attendance to our ten class and sports sessions per week and do at least ten hours of extra activities per week become Gold Members. As a reward for working hard, the Gold Members went on a trip to Port Elizabeth. We did ice skating and we visited the Alliance Francaise Street Music Festival in Richmond Hill.
Nemato Change a Life Centre
The building of the Nemato Change a Life Centre has started. We are proud that the centre is designed by Robert Rich (Richlabs Architecture), who makes outstanding architecture. Our centre will be the first building in Port Alfred using sandbag technology. The building will be done by people from the local community, mainly old Nemato members, who will be trained in using this building technology.
Numeracy Programme
We started using the numeracy programme by the SA Numeracy Chair Project (Rhodes University). It's a fun programme to improve number sense and fluency, using dice, playing cards and other tools.
Sand sculptures (3 January)
As one of our holiday 'specials' we went to the beach to build sand sculptures. Carol-Ann of the Sunshine Coast Gymnastics Club was our teacher, and in no time our guys were building beautiful and creative sculptures.
