My team and I spent this Thursday and Friday at the Mpophomeni Family Center. The center is an after school house for kids who are affected by AIDS. Many of them have lost a parent to the disease ad many of them have a parent with AIDS currently, and some of them have lost both parents and are in charge of their households. There is also a preschool that goes on all day which is fun because there are always babies to play with! Yesterday we had orientation and then started planning for our time at the center. We only have 3 more weeks and we have a lot of things we want to do, so we started getting things in order for our major projects, like painting murals and building a shed. We discussed our vision/goals for our time, specifically focusing on the high school group and the staff. The majority of the activities currently offered at the center are for elementary and middle school aged kids so the older high schoolers often get overlooked. And they're such a vulnerable group that needs as much support as they can get so we've been planning activities with them to try and build them up and encourage them while we are here. Next week we are facilitating a dream workshop for the high schoolers to talk about their futures and life after they graduate. We are also going to trying to focus on building up the staff. A number of the childcare workers have been doing this for a long time and are just burned out. There is also not a lot stress on group spiritual development among the staff so we're going to try and encourage them and build them up spiritually so they are ready and able to glorify God through teaching the kids.
So I am really excited to see what will happen will our time at Mpophomeni and I feel so blessed to be part of such a great team that is so willing to serve and learn. Keep us in your prayers please!
Tomorrow we are going zip-lining which should be super fun!
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