Year by Year 2019

Volunteer Pepita

Volunteer Pepita from Australia is helping us with holiday activities and the rowing beginners course.

Building skate ramp

We started setting up our skate ramp. Many thanks to Dave and Chris for bringing in the skills and leading the process, and many thanks to the Nemato members for helping with this heavy job!

Gold members trips

We have reintroduced monthly gold members trips to reward the most committed members for working hard. We visited the Big Pineapple in Bathurst, the indoor trampoline park in East London and other places.

Filming for Change a Life (16 September)

Filming today for our main funder the Mike Thomson Change a Life Trust.

finishing our building

We are working on finishing our building, work like plastering and painting. Most of the work is done by our members.

Social Development workshop (12 August)

A workshop by the Department of Social Development for our members about the challenges of growing up in our township.

Lifa back from Germany (1 August)

Good bye Germany and welcome home to Lifa, after a year on a volunteer exchange programme, where he discovered his passion for photography.

Nemato Career Day (31 July)

Presentation by Walter Sisulu University (WSU) for high school learners at our annual Nemato Career Day. The speaker is former Matinyana Fund student and WSU Director Sylvanus Welcome.

Our maths class

We try to make our maths class 'real' and active.

After-class maths

Our maths class is based on grade 9, but after our class we do higher level maths, like the basics of calculus. We also played around with compound interest to calculate the expansion of the universe.

calculating the expansion of the universe

Ramps to Skate Ubuntu (13 June)

Faced with lack of space and rust here at the coast, we decided to donate our small skate ramps to Skate Ubuntu in Makhanda. Thanks to J.E. Cartage for helping out with transport. We are going to set up our big half pipe skate ramp at our place.