Today has been our last day visiting the crèches and the shacks as we are now focusing on writing up our findings and reports to present to Project Hope.
We have seen various standards of crèches and eye opening ways in which people live in the shacks of Munsieville.
The one thing we will take away is how welcoming and helpful the people have been.
We have found a real desire for those living in the shacks to improve the quality of their lives particularly in the way they have embraced the paraffin safety message that we have been delivered.
We have been so impressed by the volunteers associated with Project Hope who give their free time to act as guides and interpreters ensuring that our health and safety messages have been accepted by everyone we spoke to.
We have had to work hard with those in the community who come from outside of South Africa particularly those from Mozambique. This meant we had to work on a different approach to gain their trust and allow us into their homes to deliver these important messages.
Joe Baleka from the Paraffin Safety Association, joined us for our tour of the shacks and was really impressed by the work the H&S team had undertaken and the way that we were delivering the key safety messages about paraffin.
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| No words needed..... |
We will be joining Joe at the Children’s Embassy tomorrow at 1pm to deliver a paraffin safety presentation to the whole of Munsieville community where we will be doing demonstrations and providing information and resources to the community.
Robert’s role tomorrow is to drive around Munsieville with Star, our helper, with a loud hailer to advertise this event ( who said he needed a loud hailer!!!!)
The crèche team visited the best in example on how a crèche should work. This crèche really showed how to promote children’s health and well- being and the team could really see the tremendous difference in the way the children responded. This crèche was a Government funded and we are hoping that this will be the first of many in this area.
Today we came across a simple practical means to make life safer; one is a candle in a mayonaise jar with sand which will give 30% more efficient candles and more energy and if tipped over the sand will extinguish the flame. The second one is the solar light bulb, Donna Lefevre already showed on this blog. Today Ernie and Johannes from Munsieville constructed the first prototype solar soda bottle light bulb with guidance from Scoop and Donna. |
| Safe candle |
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| Solar soda bottle light bulb |
2 comments:
You have made a huge impact on the community of Munsieville. Well done, all your hard work, passion and most of all your enthusiasm and commitment to help the children and their caregivers. Words can't thank you enough for what you have done and I know that you will continue to do.
THANK YOU. Ellie xx
Great Job team, so proud of you all. I am sure you have made a real difference to the people of Musieville.
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