The volunteers did their first day of 'proper work' (after the departure of the 'camp' of kids that were there over the weekend on Sunday) yesterday and were working alongside local staff from a black township (as well as the standard False Bay rangers).The locals 'showed them the ropes', they all broke for lunch together (with the exception of a couple of the vols who wouldn't stop working - to the locals' great amusement!) and interacted as well as they could -...

Transfer out to False Bay today was an overwhelmingly positive experience. There was a group of roughly 40 kids (aged roughly 8-12) from a black township at the project when we arrived and the volunteers were greeted with a riot of dancing and singing kids which left them totally overwhelmed and bowled over, particularly in the context of their fairly sheltered/glitzy orientation in Cape Town to date (i think Sam was about to faint!).Project orientation has been ...