By Jan Blom | Programme Director
We are making good progress with our Nemato Change a Life centre. The inside walls have been painted as has our logo on an outside wall. We have also made and installed bookshelves. Plastering remains a work in progress however. We also received training on the maintenance of our waterless toilets. Following a spate of cable theft in the area we remained without internet for some time before upgrading to wireless internet and coming back on-line.
Owing to a lack of space we have donated our small skate boarding ramps to the community in Makhanda, a university town inland from where we are. We now have enough space to set up our large half pipe ramp in our yard. We also officially inaugurated our skateboarding club at a meeting where we accepted the constitution and elected the founding board members.
Our handball club has grown from strength to strength. One of our members has been selected for the African Games and three members for the African Junior Beach Handball Championships.
The extreme poverty in our townships combined with the poor prospects for upliftment render our youth vulnerable to drug abuse which is rife in the area. While our programmes offer our members a better chance of success in life than many less fortunate members of the community, we are nevertheless not immune from the lure of drugs. We are therefore very pleased that Narconon has started offering their drugs awareness programme to the Nemato Change a Life members.
After a long break while our internet connection was down, our Skype maths classes presented by university students in Germany have resumed. These classes are offer to our grade 11 and 12 school-goers. We also offer numeracy classes based on the Rhodes University (located in Makhanda) Numeracy Chair programme for our youngest members as well as our in-house developed maths programme for students up to grade 10.
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