A massive thank you to everyone who donated. I got my parents to take things over as well as me. Here is a picture of the final items. I donated these to a school just out side of Johanasburg in a small township. The kids took great delight in investigating my hair!
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The weather here is quite spectacular. Check out these pictures. I was pleased that I managed to capture them.
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I am having a fab time at work. I am working with children up to age 9, but mainly 3 to 7. The conditions that they have range from CP to downs, to most other conditions in between.Here are a couple of pictures of some of them.
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Here are picture of Shirley and Amy the two Occupational Therapists that I am working with over here. Amy is about to go on maternity leave, hense the presents!
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Hello.
So the last up date was really not so good. I will need to sort out photos as I did not bring the connector to link my camera with a computer.
here is a picture I took with my phone of the items that I brought in my luggage.
These include
3 pairs of shoes,
2 gym balls,
1 blood pressure monitor,
6 stethoscopes,
2 tendon hammers,
1 skipping rope,
2 chest exercisers,
6 soft toys,
1 strip of thera band,
150 pencils
These are the items that I left in Cape Town for the organiser to distribute for me.
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Well, ok so you all want to know how the last week has gone.
I arrived in Soweto with my homestay host Tumi, who took me to the local hang out. I started work on monday. The kids that I’m working with are fantastic. Just gorgeous. A mix of CP, downs, and the occasional autistic. The centre in Soweto has not had physiotherapy input for a year, and I was a little overwhelmed initially. By Tuesday I had decided and acted n a plan of action, ask the teachers who they want me to see and why! Get them to go through specific problems, what they do and show them what they can do and or change to improve on what they are already doing well. By the thursday I was in demand and had to create a time table so that the teachers knew my availability and could work around their daily routine to ensure that all of our time is used wisely.
It’s been a great experience and it’s only been a week. The centre has similar problems to places here, equipment, staff, knowledge, they do soo well.
The equipment is not yet on route yet… I’ll let you all know!
Well I’m here now. I was in Cape Town for about three days doing a cultural immersion training thing. Very interesting and informative. I’ll put an update about that,too tired just now!
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Well, ok, so I packed about 10 days ago. That doesn’t mean that I won’t have forgotten something!
It’s just a shame that I can’t pack my husband. Only 5 1/2 weeks till I see him out there though.
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Here are a few pics of all the items that I was donated to send out.
They are not the clearest, but you get the idea of the volume.
I hope that pictures of them getting uploaded will follow.
