Articles
| Title: Building Program Report….20 May – 20 August 2002 |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Salvador Hunziker |
Synopsis: To empower orphans who have left school with some general life skills and knowledge in the domestic building industry. We teach concrete work, brick and block laying, carpentry, joinery, plastering, tiling, painting etc. Along with this is imparted use of power tools and work related safety of self and others. This provides these young people with greater opportunity to either start their own business or an edge in employment. |
| Title: The Writer |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Volunteer |
Synopsis: Walking in the Masoyi community with a couple of local volunteers, and a medic from Mozambique, I realised that as I listened to the unfamiliar cacophony of rural Africa there existed, pressed up close to edges of that noise, a devastating silence. Compelled to listen not to the noise but to the silence, I found within it bewilderment, confusion, pain and fear of the people I saw around me and of the many thousands I could not see. I had no understanding at that time, but I did know I had a choice, I could turn my attention elsewhere or continue my listening. |
| Title: Thuli The Social Worker |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Volunteer |
Synopsis: Thuli, among the first flush of young black women to benefit from affirmative action education policy, qualified as a social worker at the University of Cape Town with high expectations of a glamorous life with an office, computer and secretary of her own, but she told me "This was not in Gods plan." |
| Title: Numbers or Neighbours |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Volunteer |
Synopsis: 40million people world-wide are HIV positive , with 14,000 new infections every day, 2000 of these will be children under 15, 50% will be women, 95% live in poor countries, 33% of some African populations are HIV positive, 30% of businessmen travelling from the UK to developing countries have sex with a stranger, 95% of pregnant women testing HIV positive in London are from Africa, £5 -7billion annually is needed to fight the disease, £150million was the UK contribution for 2000/2001, 150 times less than the UK spent on defence, £149 million was spent on peanuts in the UK in that same time. Governments including the UK are fighting a war with peanuts. |
| Title: Masoyi Youth Choir Mpumalanga. South Africa |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Penelope Thompson |
Synopsis: Whilst the singing of the choir can be described as nothing short of excellent, we do not promote the choir as 'polished, glossy or truly professional'. |
| Title: What a difference a car makes |
Type: Articles |
| Author: Penelope Thompson |
Synopsis: Last year I received a gift; a car, which I have called Fana, this means little brother. A supporter in England bought it for me. He has never been here to the project, but he heard about us and he wanted to help. |
| Title: METHODOLOGY AND DESIGN ISSUES |
Type: Articles |
| Author: George Snyman |
Synopsis: The study is mainly qualitative-descriptive in nature with some few quantitative descriptive statistics… |