Supporting township projects in Cape Town

For our recent Cape Town visitors, the trip was far more than just a sightseeing trip.  They did quite a lot of volunteer work in local townships:

They participated in an extreme makeover at a children's home.
 
                                                   

This teamwork was just one of many painting tasks...

A few days were spent at a school which supports the children of very poor farmworkers, many of whom have alcohol problems. They helped to serve food, and taught a group how to make playdough and rice krispie cakes for the whole school...

 One of their main tasks was cataloging the school's library books on a database. Many of the books were in English, but some were in Afrikaans, which they don't know, so it wasn't all straight forward!

Then another few days were spent at a children's home in another township:

 They accompanied children to the local playpark...

 ... cut lawns and painted a fence pannel with their own creation...

 ...and played with babies and toddlers in the sunshine.

The home doesn't receive many male volunteers, so it was especially good for the many young boys to have a male role model.

They also spent some time at CVC Media, where Andy works.

 Ben works in production of content for 1Africa, so Craig and Lewis critiqued several programmes and learnt some editting skills.

 I think they enjoyed their volunteering activities as much as the sightseeing.