My Internship

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From 13th of April until 24th of July 2015

Afro-Xenophobia

• Is to be afraid of people from other African countries

Campaign against Afro-Xenophobia

• Poster

• Video-Shooting

Freedom Day

• The first election after apartheid took place on the 27th of April 1994

• Event Preparation

• Electronic Devices

Human Rights Workshop

• Human rights are rights everybody in the world gains when she/he is born. These rights cannot be lost.

• Workshop in a School

Singamakhalipha

• Year Planning

• Gugulethu Staff-Meeting

In Kanana:• Development Programme

• Children‘s Interviews

• Home Visits

Development Programme in Kanana

• Life Skills

• Book Reading

• Home Work Support

• Arts and Culture

• Rehearsals

• Games

Children‘s Interviews and Home Visits in Kanana

• Children’s Interview Form; House Hold Information Form

• Building Relationships with Children and Their Families

• Questioning, Listening and Observing• Language: English and isiXhosa• 3 Cases (Difficulties, Confidential)• Process Notes• Therapeutic Sessions• Form 22 to DSD

Austrian vs. South African Social Work

• Most Austrian social workers don‘t work in NGO‘s

• Different forms and extent of poverty

• Different views; for example about raising children, child neglect, physical abuse

Child Abuse Workshop

• Facilitator

• Information about Different Forms of Abuse

• Activity with Children

Talent Show

• Kanana, Europe, Nyanga

• Dancing, Singing, Acting

• Preparation

• Taking Pictures

• Refreshments

Parental Skill Training at St. Anne‘s Homes

• Africa Unite Manual

• Either Facilitator or Co-Facilitator

• Nice Sessions

• Questions and Discussions

• Some women paid more attention and were more talkative than others.

• St Anne’s Homes is willing to pay R 1500 and also want to donate something the Development Programme really needs

Food Project

• Was a huge need in the Development Programme

• Writing a proposal for food to hotels and supermarkets

• Hotels were willing to distribute products for their 67 minutes of charity

• Difficult Task

• Hopefully to be continued

Nelson Mandela Day

Europe:

• Hotels distributed products for their 67 minutes of charity

• Face Painting

Event at the Nyanga Stadium:

• Taking care of the children from Singamakhalipha

• Volunteering during the event

Challenges

• Computer Problems

• Communication

• Timing

• No food available for the Development Programme

• The Community Hall in Kanana is leaking

What I have learned!

• To work on my own

• To engage for what I believe to be important

• How important fund-raising is

• To work with little money and material

• About the culture

• Diversity of Social Work

• I had an interesting and sometimes challenging internship

Thank You For Your Attention!Goodbye Africa Unite!!