NEMATO CHANGE A LIFE

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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.


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.

volunteer Bongani (14 September) Welcome to our volunteer Bongani! He'll be helping us for half a year as part of his third year Sports Management study at Nelson Mandela University.

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 - how have no idea how to get food - are with the parcels.

coronavirus lockdown (24 March) We are preparing our last meal before we close Nemato Change a Life for the South African lockdown for the coronavirus.

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

Ashley passed driver's test (12 March) Our programme manager Ashley passed his drivers test.

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.

Allan Gray fellows (22 February) Allan Gray fellows visited 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.

ECD course The Level 4 Early Childhood Development course in Kenton had five spaces open. To fill the spaces, we offer transport to five ECD practitioners from the Bathurst and Port Alfred townships for this important year long course. Early Inspiration runs the course and it's funded by Rotary International.

roof lights Every weekend we offer a wide range of activities for our members, including beautifying our building. Here we are putting up LED roof lights.

President's Award meeting (13 February) Our members with silver or gold President's Awards were invited to Makhanda. They were offered bursaries to study for free at Boston College.

Buco donation Buco helped us out with this generous donation to build our skate ramp.

weekend activities We are building a wall as one of our many weekend activities.