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!
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Numeracy for youth organisations
We organised a presentation of the Rhodes University Numeracy Programme for
all youth organisations in our township. We started using the programme ourselves some
months ago. It's great and we want to share it so that more youth can benefit
from it. We also organised a trip for the youth organisations to Port Elizabeth
to a fundraising workshop and a presentation of the FunDza reading programme.
(battery flat: no pictures of the trip)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Clothes donated (21 February)
Rhodes University rowers donated a large amount of clothes to Nemato.
Great luck for our active members. All went home with an arm full of
clothes. (Nothing for lazy members, you snooze, you lose!) Many thanks
to the Rhodes students!!!
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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.
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