NEMATO CHANGE A LIFE

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Volunteer Pepita Volunteer Pepita from Australia is helping us with holiday activities and the rowing beginners course.

Add Hope (16 November) As proud Add Hope beneficiary, we were invited to the annual KFC Master Cook Competition in East London.

ECD Association meeting (14 November) We had the meeting of the Early Childhood Development Association Ndlambe East this morning. Nemato Change a Life runs the office for the association.

President's Awards (2 November) We attended the President's award ceremony in Queenstown. We had 6 members who got their certificates and medals for doing community service, adventurous journey, skills development and sport.

Building skate ramp We started setting up our skate ramp. Many thanks to Dave and Chris for bringing in the skills and leading the process, and many thanks to the Nemato members for helping with this heavy job!

Gold members trips We have reintroduced monthly gold members trips to reward the most committed members for working hard. We visited the Big Pineapple in Bathurst, the indoor trampoline park in East London and other places.

Nemato Change a Life jackets (2 October) Nemato Change a Life jackets donated by the Mike Thomson Change a Life Trust.

Two Quantums (30 September) Can you believe it... two Quantums for Nemato Change a Life by the Mike Thomson Change a Life Trust!

Filming for Change a Life (16 September) Filming today for our main funder the Mike Thomson Change a Life Trust.

finishing our building We are working on finishing our building, work like plastering and painting. Most of the work is done by our members.

Donation (31 August) This is so great: somebody donated us all this! Many thanks, donations are always welcome!

Turning Point (August) Lunga and Khanyile went through the deep experience of Turning Point, a course by the Insight Training Centre in Johannesburg, to help overcome the pains of the past and to fully develop the potential as human being. Many thanks to our board member Bunie for guiding the boys through the process.

Social Development workshop (12 August) A workshop by the Department of Social Development for our members about the challenges of growing up in our township.

Club t-shirts Great club t-shirts donated by the Mike Thomson Change a Life Trust, our main funder.

Lifa back from Germany (1 August) Good bye Germany and welcome home to Lifa, after a year on a volunteer exchange programme, where he discovered his passion for photography.

Nemato Career Day (31 July) Presentation by Walter Sisulu University (WSU) for high school learners at our annual Nemato Career Day. The speaker is former Matinyana Fund student and WSU Director Sylvanus Welcome.

Recycling Plastic, PET, cardboard, we are sorting out our recycling, because caring about our future without caring about the world doesn't make sense.

Our maths class We try to make our maths class 'real' and active.

Ndlambe FM (1 July) Nemato Change a Life at Ndlambe FM.

Chess We made a chess board for members to learn to play chess.

After-class maths Our maths class is based on grade 9, but after our class we do higher level maths, like the basics of calculus. We also played around with compound interest to calculate the expansion of the universe.

Ramps to Skate Ubuntu (13 June) Faced with lack of space and rust here at the coast, we decided to donate our small skate ramps to Skate Ubuntu in Makhanda. Thanks to J.E. Cartage for helping out with transport. We are going to set up our big half pipe skate ramp at our place.

Nemato Skateboarding Club (7 June) We officially established Nemato Skateboarding Club, accepted the constitution and elected the board members.

Holiday activities Fun activities during the holiday.

FutureLife donation (29 May) Many thanks to FutureLife and the Eastern Cape Academy of Sport for the large donation of FutureLife porridge!

Narconon at Nemato (3 May) Robert and his team introduced the Narconon drugs awareness programme to the Nemato Change a Life members.

#choose2bactive At our weekly gyms on Monday, we joined the #choose2bactive campaign by the Sport for Social Change Network and the Department of Sport.

Painting our logo (29 March) We used our projector to draw the Nemato Change a Life logo on the wall, and turned our place into an outdoor movie theatre afterwards.

Reading Reading our books, donated by Biblionef and FunDza.

Solar cooking We are moving from cooking on gas to electrical on free and clean solar power. Kettle, industrial induction stove (very fast!) and stainless steel pot are donated by the Wolwevers Church and Willy in the Netherlands.

Skype class Great initiative by Vitus from Goettingen/Germany: weekly Skype maths lessons for our learners in the highest grades.

Clothes donation Thanks a lot for the donation of school clothes. Donations are always welcome!!!

Photography We do photography as one of our activities. Here we play with aperture. Lifa has become strong at photography.