Fortunately, there was a training for another project, Child Aid and I was allowed to attend. 3 volunteers from nearby districts where here as well so we had a full house.....at a point 11 people on total.
The team.
The program AGSP sponors girls in their education. Mentors, godmothers and trainers overview and advice their attendance to school and the program provides with some food, uniforms and studying materials. The objective: Making sure that more girls study in Mozambique and for that matter, the world.
To my surprise, the training was very well organized and we where doing many falicitating dynamics common and necessary in workshops like this. I think the African participants where a little shy and new to this way of communicating, but they did very good regardless.
This is the Child Aid building, some other volunteer must have done a few nice looking murals around it. The building is located next to the volunteer house so that is very convenient for many DIs.
Workshops, meetings and classes under a tree is very common in Africa, sometimes because of the heat and other times because of lack of resources.
As part of the training we did a Talent Show and it occured to me to make a drawing of all the participants, they where very surpised to hace their face drawn and that made the see art in a different way. Many dances and singing where presented in this show, and it seems is the way Africa goes!
This training taught me much about the reality of Africa. Talking about social problems, transpostation issues, program structures gave me a better perspective of the implementation and creation of development projects.
