African Impact
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Marleen is originally from the Netherlands and joined us as a volunteer 3 years ago. She has since spent time managing our community programs in Livingstone, Zambia, and has spent the last few months setting the foundations for our community and conservation work in St Lucia. [Marleen is on the left in the pic]
Here is this morning's update from Marleen:
Hi guys,
Sorry, a bit busy here, and haven't done a daily diary for last week. But with all the developments here, I thought that, instead of giving you a day-to-day account, I'll just give you the important points:
- Everyone is happy on the project at the moment :) (By the end of today, we'll have a group of nine volunteers, which is an exciting number for such a new project!)
- All the vols we have at the moment are on the Orphan Day Care/HIV Education project, so we're now going to the Day Care Center every morning, which is great.
- We started our HIV/AIDS Education Course yesterday. We are using Pastor Zulu's "building," (which is more of a rural hut) and invite people from the community to come and join us. We seem to have people lining up to sign up, which is great. We are using an adjusted version of the syllabus they made in Livingstone, and we go through all the material in six sessions of two hours - three times a week. I think it's an amazing thing to do, and I think the volunteers are all really happy to participate in this. I would like to start giving shorter courses at schools soon as well.
- We also started additional afternoon projects - we are painting a little clinic, making bricks for re-building the whole Day Care Center, and joining a Home Based Care Group. All these activities are new, but seem to be running well.
- Annabel Vere, who was our first volunteer here, is coming back to help us out for a few months. She is very passionate about, and brilliant with the community projects, and will be a great asset to them, especially in this developing stage. She's arriving in a couple of weeks and we're looking forward to having her back!
That's it for now
Marleen
Update from Marleen Lammers, St Lucia Project Manager
Marleen is originally from the Netherlands and joined us as a volunteer 3 years ago. She has since spent time managing our community programs in Livingstone, Zambia, and has spent the last few months setting the foundations for our community and conservation work in St Lucia. [Marleen is on the left in the pic]Here is this morning's update from Marleen:
Hi guys,
Sorry, a bit busy here, and haven't done a daily diary for last week. But with all the developments here, I thought that, instead of giving you a day-to-day account, I'll just give you the important points:
- Everyone is happy on the project at the moment :) (By the end of today, we'll have a group of nine volunteers, which is an exciting number for such a new project!)
- All the vols we have at the moment are on the Orphan Day Care/HIV Education project, so we're now going to the Day Care Center every morning, which is great.
- We started our HIV/AIDS Education Course yesterday. We are using Pastor Zulu's "building," (which is more of a rural hut) and invite people from the community to come and join us. We seem to have people lining up to sign up, which is great. We are using an adjusted version of the syllabus they made in Livingstone, and we go through all the material in six sessions of two hours - three times a week. I think it's an amazing thing to do, and I think the volunteers are all really happy to participate in this. I would like to start giving shorter courses at schools soon as well.
- We also started additional afternoon projects - we are painting a little clinic, making bricks for re-building the whole Day Care Center, and joining a Home Based Care Group. All these activities are new, but seem to be running well.
- Annabel Vere, who was our first volunteer here, is coming back to help us out for a few months. She is very passionate about, and brilliant with the community projects, and will be a great asset to them, especially in this developing stage. She's arriving in a couple of weeks and we're looking forward to having her back!
That's it for now
Marleen
