Back into Heidelberg today for the meeting with 'Bra Kid' that we thought was yesterday!
The guys Nickname is Bra Kid, and i can't for the life of me remember his real name, so i'm just gonna stick with it.
Myself and Hanolet spoke to him about his current Co-op and his future business plans, he wants to open up a business selling chickens and related products (eggs etc) he suffered a stroke a while ago that left his left arm completely useless, pretty tragic to see, but he seems to be coping really well! One thing that put me off was the shop he opperates from, its in the middle of a taxi rank, like a small covered parking, flies and dirt and... just think 'unhygienic'.
I guess for these guys it's a matter of 'take what you can get', hopefully with our help a cleaner, healthier premises will be found. Once we'd taken all his and his partners' details, we headed out to Ratanda to find Daniel who wanted us to meet with some friends of his to explain everything.
The directions he gave us almost drove us insane. When, eventually, we found him he told us that our GPS must be broken, we where on the wrong road. Well, that settles it, our trusty GPS must be wrong, no argument. Right. We met the guys (and one woman) but they all seemed really shy! Hanolet had to virtually pry the information out of them, names, numbers, addresses, business ideas the works. These profiles usually take a few minutes per person, or at least per co-operative person. These took forever!! Picture yourself in a tiny room, with one window, seven people, 30 odd degrees outside and having to almost beg them to tell you what they do for a living. One by one.frustrating? you bet.
We eventually got out of there, only to get stuck in traffic on the way back to Edenvale, not cool. We spoke a bit about the up coming Ratanda induction at Maccauvlei this weekend
( i know i said it was next weekend, my bad) Friday is going to be a very,very long day.
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