By Agnes Albrecht | founder and Manager of Mammadu
Hi to all of you
This time I’m going to tell you about good news and not so good ones. Lets start with the good ones. I believe you all remember our Rhino play. As the kids truly love to play it we decided to visit and old age home here in Windhoek to show it to the nice old people, to dance and sing for them and to bring them some joy and happiness. The kids even prepared flowers for them as we didn’t want to come empty handed. They made them out of paper rolls and painted them, they practised once again their play and the songs and off we went.
You wont believe it, but it was such a success. Even if at the beginning some of the old people didn’t really understand what was happening, at the end they were all so happy. The kids brought them even some of their energy bars and Mekupi wanted to hand over even the apples we had brought with for the afternoon snack for the kids. The old age home invited us to come and visit them again, so now the kids are practising new song in order to have a new repertoire.
We also visited the botanical garden of Windhoek and the new Monument in town, the kids got very exited and loved the huge statue of Sam Nujoma, the father of their nation.
Some of our volunteers organized a fun day for the kids. They divided them in teams, mixing bigger ones with smaller ones and the challenges were truly a lot, from jumping in a bag, racing in two with a balloon, and many more. The funniest was when they had to smell things blindfolded. Banana, oranges, peanut butter, easy, nearly every body got it right. Garlic, just the girls knew what it was, the boys pulled faces and moved on to nest smell. Then there was cinnamon, that was truly a challenge for all of them. Only Kasuko got it right, she didn’t remember the name, but she knew it was a spice and she explained it to us ”that’s the spice white people put in cakes”. Well done Kasuko.
There have been also a lot of visitors during the last months but two of them really made the day. One was a guy and he came with his motor bike! Actually the guy was not so interesting but his BIKE WAS! The kids were so exited that you just saw a huge human mas and the bike was somewhere buried below. The other visitor was Ayumi from Japan. First everybody thought she was Chinese as it is not easy to understand that not all Asiatic looking people are coming from China, only when I told them that Ayumi came from the same country like Toyota, the kids got their geography right. Now you can find in all their books Mammadu written in katakana and hirakana the Japanese alphabet.
Petrus got a good mark at school for his traditional house, it is very pretty don’t you think and the moms have participated ta their first market to sell their products. It was defiantly a memorable experience. Mammadu and the moms will be participating also at the next Boere /Farmers Marked here in Windhoek on the 1st of August. You are more then welcome to visit our stall and you can find us on the 15th of August in front of Superspar Maerua Mall. Hope to see you there.
Now the not so good news. One of our kids is sick. He suffers from seizures which can last even 20/30 minutes. These seizures can happen anywhere and sometimes even twice a day. When he wakes up, often he can’t see, sometimes he cant speak or hear, sometimes he can’t even remember were he is or who we are. This happens at home, at Mammadu at school, any where. At the beginning we thought it might be epilepsy and we got him tested, but it’s not as he had a seizure even during the encephalogram, so that can be excluded. Then we were told that it might be a psychological problem so we visited a psychologist, but things are not getting better. Tomorrow he has a again a visit at the hospital, hopefully a brain scan in order to find out more and to find the way to help this child. At this moment nobody really knows what is happening to him.
If anyone of you has any idea or suggestion please contact me. The boy really needs help all our help.
A very special thank you to all of you. There are more and more people getting involved and it is so great, any help you give to us is highly appreciated and we are so happy to have you as part of our Mammadu family.
A kiss to all of you from the kids
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