Todays roughly the same drill as yesterday, dropping off the tea and coffee at the Spark Gallery, then heading out to Heidelberg to collect application forms from our entrepreneurs. When we arrived in Ratanda there was a huge funeral gathering in the town hall, the music could be heard above all else. It’s way too hot today and I feel like I didn’t sleep enough, we handed some more papers out to new people and went through the process of explaining what we do and who we are, if it wasn’t for the slight breeze im sure I’d die from the heat! We spent some time chatting to the guys around us, its crazy when you get down to it, most of these people are living off R800-R1800 pm and still supporting a family! Hanolet took the new group through the motions, importance of filling out the forms correctly and honestly etc. We’ll be back there next week to collect the last few forms! We then went to meet the guys who are planning to start their community radio station, unfortunately they still haven’t competed their forms or gotten copies of their ID’s for us, we couldn’t hang around for nothing so we scheduled to meet them next week and stressed the importance of handing in those forms! Back in Norwood things are moving along well, we delivered everyones lunch on time and while they took a break we had a look at some of the better works with Gordon, some of them are really getting into their work, others..not so much! I took some pictures of their progress and we left them to it! Hopefully they keep up the good work and we’ll see them all again on Monday!
Howzit Wes, I'm interested to know a bit more about the people you are meeting, are they young old, women, men; Are they excited, do they seem excited about what your offering them? What is the quality of the work, has anything caught your eye that you have thought wow.
ReplyDeleteAre you excited about what is happening, do you think that they will see the course through, how many do you think really want a better life?
Tell me more about the people