Our trip to South Africawith

Think Impact(formerly Student Movement for Real Change)

October – November 2009

South African National Anthem

Tswana (Pretoria) Jacaranda city

Nelspruit Int’l Airport

Skyway Trails ZiplineHazyview. The Lowveld

Our guide and security!

The attachment

The Slide

Elaine

Jeffrey

Always good to know your ropes

Swing voter?

Sometimes mam(b)as are found on the Platform

Seen from above. Who’d walk here?

The decent

It’s knot what you think it is

The leadership at lunch, Hazyview(again)

Utha bakeryThink Impact Initiative (Kaitlin)

The bakery – from Mixmaster to ovenKaitlin helping to organize and train

the locals to run the bakery

Utha Bakery staff (and bread) – fresh, warm and delicious every day

Utha chickens – fresh warm and delicious - every day

Some concentrate more than others!

…. EvEn in Utha ….dressed up just like Mom

One of the soccer fields sponsored

by Think Impact

$20,000

to complete the soccer field

Utha Goats fresh warm and delicious - every day

Owner of Utha General Store

No matter where you are, there is always ……………

What should we buy?

“Gated” community in Utha

Lining up for daily water. Hopefully, this too will change soon

Arrival of the water

Filling the drums

Trying to prevent flu. Notice displayed at the school

What it is all about!

Welcome from the pupils of the Samson Sibuyi Primary School

A Library – Think Impact initiative

The handprints of Think Impact

Dancing pupils –a display of their skill all for us

Cadets turned comedy!

The sweet faces of South Africa

Enjoying the dancing and, curiously, watching us!

Pupils first. Then….

The teachers - how it’s really done!

No starving children. A wonderful sight for Africa

A borehole in Utha. Bored by now? I think so. More to come we hope.

Samson Sibuyi Primary School

The smilers

Makrepeni Community Center and Creche.Think Impact cleaned, painted and brought in

computers for the Center.

Working closely with the dedicated Mr. DeppaMathonsi, principal. Saul and Mr Mathonsi

examining an unused borehole

Happy faces

A few of the 3,500 pupils who are given a daily meal in the area

Malnutrition is not evident because of the daily meal

Apple tree

Kat teaching the kids yoga

……under the watchful eye of the carnivores and others

Delicious pap

……..

A mother’s (or wife’s?) bliss!

….. Natives?

Sarah, Angie and Claire…. discussingwhere the Utha Community Hall will be built –

meetings held under the marula trees

Ahhh another library

The meal plan for the crecheour daily bread……

…. And our daily activities

School’s admission policy.It’s worthy of reading

Searching for the root

The beginning, really

Who did you say was here?

…..for schools in the US to take heed

Adorable! The wall paintings, I mean

Ahhhhh…. ANOTHER library

Interesting!

Least we forget – Mandela freed

Posted in the Library

Doris… teacher, explaining some of her struggles regarding alcohol and HIVnot too different to kids in the USA

Doris (from the village of Dixie), teacher, mother, and counselor

with Alyse

Soccer field at Manyangana High School in Utha (Think Impact Initiative)

Relaxing at Richard and Doris Siwela’shouse in Utha

Our room

Before the rest

Good morning, June. Breakfast pleaseIn the kitchen

Melbourne in the living room

…..

Pearl

In Pearl’s room. A blue state

Living room, TV and front entrance

Our hosts, Doris and the girls

Anyone for an iced tea or other?

Vanessa, Jeffrey and Alyse

And the rents

Another flower bed, The MahlathiSchool

…..

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Mashlati Primary Schoolcomputer room. Think Impact initiative

….inside

Ahhhhh another library

… same one

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Teach and learn

Saul and the principal.The computer room

The school bathrooms and quad

Another soccer field, thinkThink Impact again

Trailer for the school –another Think Impact contribution

…. classrooms and trailer

Along the road to Lillydale

Poor and rudimentary

Bhubezi Clinic, Lillydale, where 2,500 people receive treatment

(mostly for HIV/AIDS)

Wheelchairs for the 24 hour unit

Jewels of Utha, well okay, just visitors of Utha……

outside the new clinic

…. The clinic in Utha. Soon to be opened

Megan, Kat and Saul at the Entrance to the Clinic

The Pharmacy

Reception, File room and Exam rooms

Looking back on Utha

Leaving Utha

On our way to Djuma

On the way ------ to Djuma