Year by Year 2020

fly & fish farming

We want to try recycling: collect waste food, feed it to fly larvae, feed the larvae to fish, feed the fish to us. Lunga got trained in fly farming at Nambu in Makhanda, by Lowell and his team! We are building a small greenhouse for a pilot Fly & Fish Farm. Lunga took a group of members on a three day camp to learn how to farm flies and fish, and as an extra we watched the moon, Jupiter and Saturn with our telescope.

building our small fly & fish farm greenhouse

class

We reopened our numeracy and maths classes after the lockdown.

coding

We are running a couple of different coding programmes. We do Tanks coding, a course developed by Nelson Mandela University (NMU), in our Sunday class. Some members participated in the NMU Boats coding competition, with Anathi winning the fourth prize out of 400 participants. As activities we offer kTurtle and the basic Google Android Studio and Kotlin course.

reopening (10 August)

We reopened with a special coronavirus programme: Inside: no groups, windows open, fan on, mask on, limit talking. Outside: small groups, mask on.

food parcels

Hunger is becoming a big problem here. In the 'normal' world people had found ways to survive, but many of these ways have been cut off now, and people are getting desperate. We distributed food parcels, trying to help the families of our members and other people. You can imagine how happy people - who have no idea how to get food - are with the parcels.

skate ramp at community hall

We started setting up our skate ramp at the Titi Jonas community hall.

setting up skate ramp at Titi Jonas hall

night photography

With our photography group we did some photography in the dark, playing with slow shutter speeds.

special-needs school (26 February)

We took our sports to the local special-needs school Enkuthazweni, where our member Lifa is working.

our tumbling track at the special needs school

Allan Gray fellows (22 February)

Allan Gray fellows visited Nemato Change a Life.

Allan Gray fellows at Nemato Change a Life

Tanks coding

We started playing Tanks. It's an award winning app by Nelson Mandela University to learn coding without computers. Thanks to Professor Jean Greyling for bringing us a set of tokens that can be scanned by the phone app.