Return to South Africa - Dr Paul Grant

That last post spot accidentally got chopped in half! I was part way through giving a description. continued.... Little Hills Pre-School - this is an on-site crèche, which caters for 72 community children, aged 3-6, which includes a school readiness programme. This was extremely busy and I am fortunate that I am used to looking after small children. There are minimal supplies and teaching equipment so I had to be fairly inventive with teaching and over-exuberant child control methods. Village Training Centre - there is a computer lab and classrooms for a wide variety of professional and life skills training. Hunger alleviation programme – this includes packing and providing and delivering food parcels to families in crisis, daily feeding at the nearby HIV clinic and the local high school, as well as cultivating a community garden. Community distribution centre – ICV acts as a distribution centre for donations of clothing, food and other resources from multiple places as they re...

In the countryside north of Hillcrest...   The Children’s Village was set up in 2002 in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, 1 hour north of Durban, South Africa. Currently they house 50 vulnerable children, ranging from 18 months to 18 years of age – all of whom who have lost one or both of their parents to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Personal projects: -        To support the life of the village, house mothers and contribute to the care, education and development of the children -        To revisit the Hillcrest AIDS centre -        To help with clear up of The White House community care centre at IKwaNyusa. -    To street medicine in action in downtown Durban   The children, residential staff and volunteers all live on a secure 12 acre campus near the communities of Botha’s Hill, KwaNyusa and Embo – about 3...