Day 1

Today is the first day of 5 days that Our school has given us to work intensively on the Project. Lots of things have to be done till friday where we pack the Maersk container and send down to South Africa.
The Container group 1, have gathered a few bags with clothes, and 1000 tubes of colgate toothpaste and 1000 soaps. That’s progress!Container group 2. have been calling around asking for donations for our project, they’ve got a lot of no’s, but also a yes! They’ve got a donation from a football club. The donation consisted of Football shoes and football clothes.
Container group number 3 (the pencil girls), have been calling and emailing for books. They’ve contacted 3 libraries, 4 elementary schools and 7 paper firms.

That’s a lot of progress in one day!

Presentation video

Success

The girls pencil boxes has already turned out to be a success.
One person alone donated all this!

A good case

The project is really moving foward, and if you click on the link below you'll see a facebook page that one of the container groups have made. The purpose of the event is to collect as many pencils as possible and then of course send them to South Africa along with all the other stuff that we collect.

http://www.facebook.com/events/119004944903099/
Unfortunately the page is in Danish, but as you can see a lot of people intend to participate, and that's what's most important.

The sign says: "Give a pencil to South Africa"

Logbook 1.

Today has been a very good day for our project. We had a skype meeting with Kerry Rosser and Cathrine Taylor. It was the first time for us to see the faces of Kerry and Cathrine, it was nice finally to get faces on those person we have heard so much about. The container groups asked Kerry and Cathrine questions about the project and we got really positive feedback. They gave us their permission to publish pictures of the children in Mfulini, which will be shown as soon as possible.
It seems as if the skype-call has helped us to a better understanding of the whole project. It has clarified some necessary things and suddenly everything seens more tangible.

Project Description

Hi Everyone!


Here's a short description of the project we're working on:
We are a class at Copenhagen Open High School working with a project about corporate social responsibility - or CSR. Our school's profile is very innovative and global. The purpose of our project is to make a global contact, and in order to do that we have been given the opportunity to co-operate with Maersk Line in Cape Town. We have also gained a partnership with the organisation Afrika Tikkun (www.afrikatikkun.org) which is a ‘non-profit’ organisation who has helped families since 1994. Afrika Tikkun has different projects attached to helping and empowering children and young people in different townships in South Africa. The township that we are focusing on is in Western Cape and is called Mfuleni.

Afrika Tikkun's work is divided into three areas:
Development Programmes whose goal is to develop different groups, e.g. children, young people and children with special needs and their families.
Centres of Excellence are 6 centres which have got facilities that primarily kids and adolescents can gain from. They eat and ‘hang out’ there, like in an after-school care.
Special Projects cooperate with Afrika Tikkun and other various organisations. One of them focuses on helping the attendees making food, use computers and other technology. Other centres specialise in helping the physically and mentally troubled, or sexually abused children.

Our project is a cooperation with both Maersk Line in Cape Town and Afrika Tikkun with the goal of finding the best way of supporting the Afrika Tikkun's  development programmes in South Africa. Maersk has given us the possibility to get our things shipped in a container to South Africa. Things that we have collected during the project for the benefit of all young people, children and their parents who attend the Afrika Tikkun programmes.

Video

Here you see a video from the early process of generating ideas.