Read from first part here or part 5 here.
I was eager to get started and walked to the different pricipals in town. There are 7 schools so I focused mostly on the secondary schools since SCORE (my organization) had a program called “youth leads”. The experience was that working with teachers was difficult, but we should target youths with good leadership skills and empower and equip them to organize activities for others.
When talking to the principal at Cornelius Goriseb Highschool he was very welcoming and gave me a a teacher to help me out organizing a meeting with potential to become youth leaders. The teacher gave me a time I could meet him to talk about the program. I met up 10 minutes early and waited for almost 3 hours before going home without seeing him. The same happend the second time, but on the third try he came and we talked. He arranged a time and place for me to meet the youths and about 10 showed up.
I tried to learn the names and good for me most kids have a school name easy to say in English (More about this later). Living in a tribe far away from everything known people look similar in the beginning and I found out the best way to remember their names was to remember their hair. So I tried to remember like this: Gloria, long smal braids, Memory, long thick braids, Melody, medium length with black and brown hair.
After the next meeting I dropped this strategy. This time their hair was not the same and I didn’t know any names. After a few weeks not everyone looked the same anymore and it became easier to learn names. After this weeks I also found out work was not going to be like I imagined.
Read from first part here or part 5 here.
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