Two large green camping loungechairs. That’s what the XS4ALL team bought for 71-year old Klaas and his wife Sanne as a “moving in” present for the new home on the Eye for Others grounds in Ritchie. Klaas and Sanne are such kind and warm people, always willing to help. Even if they are not always able, creative or disciplined enough to do their EfO voluntary work according to our very high western expectation level.
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Deep concentration & hard work in the classroom today. Tirza stimulated “self help” to the max. Don’t ask the teacher but find it yourselves on Google, YouTube or Wikipedia yourselves. Help each other. Each of the 9 “students” was helped to identify a subject to focus on with the aim of making money with it in the end.
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Belinda and I go for coffee @Elbé. She wished she could read books again. Her paralysis prevents her from holding a book in her hands, or turning a page. Books about faith, raising children and marriage is what she liked to read. “No novels, that is wasting my time.” A voice controlled (language: Afrikaans) e-book is all she would need to get started. Plus a mount for it on her wheelchair. And an internet connection to browse for e-books.
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Magdalien is walking the XS4ALL team through the Freedom Park township in Ritchie. I ask her. “First people need to clean up their shack and the grounds around it. Make it clean and safe for the children to play. Take care of the invalid, the old and the sick. Organise activities for the children to keep them happy, safe and busy with positive things as a first step to schooling.”
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2 years young, her tiny hands clamped around a hard piece of whitebread, seated in a dark and warm metal shack. The child looks cross eyed. She is obviously not well. She sufferes from the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and statistically may have also been affected by Aids. FAS entails a host of problems, all caused by alcohol abuse by her mother during her pregnancy. Tamara, a lovely young lady willingly yet also somewhat ashamed shows us her 20m2 home housing 8 people. Tamara is her mother. Father: unknown.
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Beauty and danger. Sun and rain. War and peace. Love and losses. Stars and black holes. Hope and despair. Live or die. God or nothing. There is no place on earth more brutally honest than the incredible continent of Africa.
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A women is singing beautifully just outside of the EyeforOthers- XS4ALL Computer Class Room @ Ritchie. She is distracting me from a focussed attempt to set up the latest PC I brought into South Africa yesterday. Her singing is like a bird. What a peaceful happiness she has in her beautiful voice. I wished I got distracted this way more often…
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