Today, Matt and I were invited to a "party" at the Rainbow Centre. Itemba, the teacher-branch of Ikamva Labantu, has meetings at the Rainbow Centre every month, to discuss new agendas such as training and other aspects that are pertinent to their roles as teachers in the creches. It was also fun getting to see many of the principals and teachers that Matt and I have been working with the past few weeks. We got quite a few hugs from them, haha.
Today's meeting was special, however, as today there was a "party" for Helen. Helen went to the States back in May to receive an honor from some group, and they gave her some money ($100,000 Rand or about $12,500 U.S.). She brought this money back to the Ikamva and is using it to throw "parties" for all of the branches of Ikamva. Today's branch was Itemba.
At the party, the members had their normal meeting, and then it was followed by Helen giving a speech explaining where she had been, why she had the money, and why she was throwing the party. After she was done, Matt and I proceeded to hand out a crapload of Kentucky (KFC) meals to all of the members of Itemba. I'm not really sure if this makes any sense, but doing this like this is why I'm enjoying my time here so much.
After the meeting, Matt and I hung back for a bit and spoke with Martha, Notemba, and Xoliswa to speak about our schedule for the following two and a half weeks that we will continue going out into the field. Now that we are squared away again, hopefully we won't have any wasted days going forward and we can continue the great work we've done thus far.
I'm also excited because next Friday, July 17th, the foot soldiers are taking us to Mzole's Place, a braii in Guguletu. We drive by Mzoli's place quite a bit and it looks like an amazing experience. Well, that's it for tonight, I think. Totsien, my friends!
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