Last
week I finally figured out what I wanted to do for my activist project. For a
while I was just going to use the Fire Fighters Soccer Club as my activist
project because I didn't know what else to do, but then I found this NGO called
Soil for Life via the internet. It’s a non-profit that works mostly with home
gardening. Currently they are doing a workshop to teach people from the
townships how to have their own home gardens so that they can eat healthier and
be more self reliant.
So Friday I had a meeting
at Soil for Life in Constantia at 9:30. I was not entirely sure how to get
there, I was just told to take a minibus to Wynberg and then another one to
Constantia. I had no idea what route the minibuses took or where to get off for
the second one so I kind of just winged it. Once I saw the M3 I decided to get
off and I followed that road to where I knew where I was going. When I was talking
to one of the workers at Soil for Life later he told that there is a mini bus
that will drop you off right in front of Soil, so that would have saved me a
mile or two of walking.
Once I got to Soil I
instantly loved it. Their gardens were beautiful and the people there were very
friendly. I was scheduled to meet with Louise at 9:30, but when I got there she
was teaching a class about home gardening to a bunch of people from the townships.
So I sat in on the class for a bit and participated with the yoga exercise
afterwards and then I sat down and talked to Louise. We talked about what I
could help them do while I am there and basically what it came down to was that
I will probably be helping out in the garden mostly, which I am happy about and
would love to do. Then the other thing that I may be doing is some data
analysis of surveys that Soil for Life takes of people they teach. Since I am
only there on Fridays I probably won’t be going on any trips into the townships
to conduct these surveys, partially because they usually do them earlier in the
week, and partially because to do this people typically go though three months of
training before hand.
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