fredag den 8. oktober 2010
I thought some of you may be interested in knowing more about my internship. So here it is...
As you may know I was working in a gender organisation the first month here. The programme did not have funding and therefore did not have any running programmes. The NGO only had one staff left plus to interns - Sharon from Zimbabwe and myself. I got to do their annual report and participate in a meeting at the parliament and actually had a good time, though I was often frustrated when I didn't think I was having enough to do!
I mentioned to people in a church I have attended that I was looking for a new intership and a few days later I was offered an internship in the programme where I am now working. The programme works with "positive occupation" of "negative spaces" in the township of Kayelitsha. The community has identified the crime hot spots of the area and the programme has built and restored buildings/facilities, called "Active Boxes" in those hot spots.
The facilities are meant to be places of acitivty which wil enhance the security and fellowship in the community. The crime rate has decreased since the facilities have been established. It is difficult to say how much you can ascribe that change to the programme, but the crime rate is the highest in town, so any improvement is positive!
I do interviews with different people who are involved in the "Active Boxes": the architect, community workers employed in the facilities and the user groups. This week I did interviews here in the city centre and next week I will go to Kayelitsha and speak with people there. So far it's going well. The purpose is to identify new user groups for the Active Boxes and also to develop some marketing material.
This was just a "dry" information blog so that you know what I am doing every day here!
As you may know I was working in a gender organisation the first month here. The programme did not have funding and therefore did not have any running programmes. The NGO only had one staff left plus to interns - Sharon from Zimbabwe and myself. I got to do their annual report and participate in a meeting at the parliament and actually had a good time, though I was often frustrated when I didn't think I was having enough to do!
I mentioned to people in a church I have attended that I was looking for a new intership and a few days later I was offered an internship in the programme where I am now working. The programme works with "positive occupation" of "negative spaces" in the township of Kayelitsha. The community has identified the crime hot spots of the area and the programme has built and restored buildings/facilities, called "Active Boxes" in those hot spots.
The facilities are meant to be places of acitivty which wil enhance the security and fellowship in the community. The crime rate has decreased since the facilities have been established. It is difficult to say how much you can ascribe that change to the programme, but the crime rate is the highest in town, so any improvement is positive!
I do interviews with different people who are involved in the "Active Boxes": the architect, community workers employed in the facilities and the user groups. This week I did interviews here in the city centre and next week I will go to Kayelitsha and speak with people there. So far it's going well. The purpose is to identify new user groups for the Active Boxes and also to develop some marketing material.
This was just a "dry" information blog so that you know what I am doing every day here!
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