Series of activities

Florence and her sister visit Blaundina and baby Hope

A child writes in his journal

The children show their birthday cards that they all made. So when someone has a birthday, they will be able to have a handmade birthday card made by one of their peers.

Some children playing soccer, a favorite sport of theirs.

Some children playing jump rope

Baby Hope












Some of the Omapititor Weyuva class volunteers












The children playing an outdoor game

Mrs Mutambo having a discussion with the girls

Some time past and several activities took place but could not be put on the blog due to the technology that failed the team. From now, the blog will be published every Wednesday. Let me just give you update on different activities that happened during this period.

Florence visit

Florence Ahlborne, a lady who is assisting the Omapitiroweyuva kids club and her sister, visited Opuwo in August. She met some of the kids at a church service where they welcomed her with a choir. They visited 2 volunteers at their homes and one teenage daughter that had to drop out of school due to pregnancy. She gave psychosocial support the daughter and one of the volunteer who just lost her child. The other volunteer whom she visited was Blaundina and her little Hope, who was 2 months by then. Florence gave bracelets to the children and these gift was very much appreciated.

Watching movies

The town of Opuwo experienced wind during the month of October and the children were forced to watch movies for 2 consecutive Fridays. Due to the large number of the attendance at the club, a movie does not require much space for movements as everyone will sit quiet and concentrates at the big screen.

Journals

It was time to make sure that every journal in the shelf has an owner and everyone has a journal. Some of the children left the club due to different reasons like changing of schools while some are not interested anymore. In the contrary, a large number of children joined the club this year and are really enjoying every Friday. It made them very much proud to have a journal of their own.

Uharee nawa

Kakarandua

Pictures

Metaha/Good day

Find the pictures for the end of term post.

Children are supporting each other with the bicycle riding because the majority do not know how to ride.

Girls are gaining confidence on the double sit bicycle; only the 1 in the front sit know how to ride.

This group is having fun with puzzles while waiting for their turn with the bicycle

Please find more pictures and videos at the right side of the blog. If you read these posts, please let us know.

Uharee nawa/Cheers

Kakarandua

End of term

Metaha

Last Friday was the last day for the second school term and children came in big numbers. The bicycle shop provided 3 bicycles for the children to learn how to ride. Two bicycles were used by the older children and a small one for the younger children. The children who know how to ride a bike were teaching those who don' know. Sometimes pushing the bike and telling the one who is ridding to look forward was the only way to teach. For many children it was the first time to ride a bike and focus was therefore a challenge.
While some were riding, the rest of the children were playing games. It was a lot of fun but also frightening for some children who never got a chance to ride a bike. Volunteers made sure that most of the children got a chance to ride. We realized that we should do more of this lessons until everyone knows.This Friday was the last day for the classes for this term and the children will go for the school holiday.

The computer where the pictures are saved is currently experiencing problems with connection to the internet and the pictures cannot be published with this posts. You will definitely see the picture in the next blog.

Uharee nawa/Cheers

Kakarandua

Shoe box gifts

Metaha

64 children received gifts which were packed in a shoe box. In each box, there were items such as shampoo, toothpaste, tooth brush, pens, different pencils, some note books, toys and games. Each box was different from the other as it was given by individual children. These gifts were facilitated by a friend in Outjo, Wilma Schoeman, who got them from Netherlands. Early this year, Wilma requested for a list of children to get the donation, therefore only children who were in the club last year received the gifts two weeks ago.

The children who got games in their boxes were requested to donate them to the whole group. These games are kept at the office for everyone to play with. Last Friday, the children sat inside the office yard and chose games they wanted to play with; which varied from different puzzles, cards, dominoes, skipping robes, balls etc. Some games could be played by one person while others could be played in different group sizes.

Each child took part in different games as he or she wished.

It is real joy to watch children playing and enjoying themselves that much as we could see them jumping up and down with smiles on their faces.

The Omapitiro Weyuva club is extending its gratitude to the children in Netherlands who donated the shoe boxes, Wilma Schoeman and everyone who facilitated this process for the gifts to reach our club.

The twins are happy to receive their boxes

The puzzle brought these two so close to each other as they are constructing a car (toy)

The games encouraged the children to built team work among themselves.

Another group enjoying the card's game

Under the tree, assisted by a volunteer who illustrated some of the difficult games.

Uharee nawa/ Cheers for now

Kakarandua

Nemo, the lost fish

Metaha/Good day

The children watched a movie about Nemo, a fish that was lost and eventually found. After they watched the movie, they were asked questions to test their understanding of the movie and how they could relate the story to the things that happened in their lives.

The children enjoyed the movie very much and could follow the story and answer the questions. To the question whether they ever had lost something valuable they mentioned to have lost siblings, pets ect. They started to tell stories of their own and how they struggled to find what was lost.

Watching movies is one of the activities the children enjoy the most.

Group pictures of the children that watched the movie

Uharee nawa/Cheers

Kakarandua

The winners for Etosha trip

Metaha/Good day

Every child got a chance to read his letter about the trip to Etosha which they wrote last Friday about why they wanted to go on the trip. The aim was to select the five best letters according to the children's ages and grades. After every child read his letter, everyone took part in judging the presentations.

Here is a letter of one of the 5 winners, quoted as written:

"Why do you want to go to Etosha?

- because I want to explore different types of animals

- we also want to know in which group they belong either mammals, vertebrate or non vertebrate

- we also want to know their names so that if one day we see it at our village we will remember it

- we also want to see where they are kept as many as they are

If you were a giraffe and you are in Etosha what will you do?

-' I will be sad for the first time and the next day I will start playing with my friend.'

This letter was written by a grade 8 daughter.

We hope to undertake the trip to Etosha in the coming school holiday depending on the availability of funds.

Cheers for now/ Uharee nawa

Kakarandua

The five children that won the Etosha trip

Competition for Etosha tour

Metaha/Good day

Dear friends, let me inform you that 15 children will visit Etosha game park during August/September school holiday. 5 Children from the 3 districts will be chosen to visit the game park. From the Omapitiro Weyuva kids club, children wrote articles to compete for this tour. Last Friday, they were given different topics to choose from, such as: Imagining a life of an animal in the park; what would you do if you were that animal; what would do if you were an animal trainer and different other questions related to the game life. The best articles will be chosen next Friday and all the children will take part in the selection of the best 5 articles.

Writing articles to win the trip to Etosha.

Playing outside is always great fun!

Uharee nawa/Cheers

Kakarandua