Wednesday, April 30, 2008

South Africa - Part 2


This is the Christian pre-school that we went to in Edendale, a township outside Maritzburg. The townships are where the black people were forced to live during apartheid. Dodgy buildings with no electricity. This pre-school building is actually condemned but they keep using it anyway. Many people live in this township. Apartheid may be over but they are still as poor as ever.


Edendale.


This kid was very keen for me to take his photo!


This is Bec Frost and me with some kids in another township called Mpophomeni. We visited a hospice there which is run by the local church (there's quite a nice little tourist town near by). It was very sad talking to the ladies in the hospice. Their situation is much the same as many others in South Africa - husbands dead, themselves dying of AIDS and only very elderly, sickly relatives left to look after their children. The government doesn't have a good program to look after them, there's hardly any social workers, in fact I met the only one for the surrounding region. Busy lady...


I thought this was a bit of a laugh. Got to make sure those rhinos are well trained!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

South Africa - Part 1


Well here are just a few photos to give you a bit of a feel for my time in South Africa. I'll post more when I have time. Hope you enjoy them!!
The family in the photo is the Bruni's, who Dani, Rob and I stayed with in Pietermaritzburg. They were lovely...especially the girls' cute little South African accents!


Here's the rugby game we went to in Durban. The Queensland Reds vs the Durban Sharks. That's the first and last time I'll be going for Queensland Lach!!


This is part of the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal where we spent some time.


The kids doing their thing at church.


Our fearless leader...