Providing Outreach to Local Communities

Another crazy couple of months...
Here at DAKTARI, we work hard to build a better world in South Africa and we're glad you're along for the ride!

What do we achieve in Outreach?

A few times a year, when the children are writing exams, DAKTARI hosts a job-hunting program. Local unemployed youths stay at the DAKTARI camp for a week and learn valuable CV, job research and interview skills.   

 After their week here, DAKTARI runs follow up workshops in the village to support their job-hunting efforts and expand the students' skills sets. Last week, DAKTARI conducted a workshop in the Oaks Village that was attended by four students from the job-hunting program: Titus, Portia, Honest and Valencia.

The volunteers helped them adjust their motivation letters and reviewed how they could improve their job research. This included how to make a good impression when introducing yourself to a future employer. 

 For two intense hours the students worked hard and have left the workshop with a renewed hope of finding a job. We are confident that these hardworking individuals will soon be employed.

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Last week, DAKTARI visited Lepono High School to conduct a workshop on the importance and value of education. DAKTARI runs an outreach program in addition to an environmental education program and wildlife orphanage.

DAKTARI's outreach program has four main parts: eco-clubs at two local secondary schools (Maahlamele and Rakgalokwana), community development, waste management and a job-hunting program. 

Approximately one hundred eight and ninth graders were able to participate in the workshop. In small groups, the children spent seven minutes interviewing a DAKTARI volunteer about their job and previous education. Once the seven minutes were up, the groups swapped and the children were able to interview another volunteer.

The children asked the volunteers what they do, what they studied at school and whether or not they went to university. By the end of the workshop the students had spoken to seven volunteers who were from different countries around the world. The volunteer's career and education backgrounds were all vastly different which was beneficial for the students as it highlighted that basic education is important no matter what job you want to do!  

To Celebrate Nelson Mandela day on the 18th July, DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage worked together with the municipality (Limpopo region), other local volunteers and our volunteers to solve the litter problem of the Oaks Village; there is no local rubbish collection service in the Oaks, therefore trash is littered everywhere in the area. 

Mandela Day calls on us all, every day, to make the world a better place. Each year on the 18th July we look back on what has been done, and forward to what will be done. 

Our Outreach program has us working along side the local government to solve the problem, first step;

• A big clean up, (inspired by Nelson Mandela Day)
• Next step is to install industrial bins in key locations
• Final step; to generate jobs at the local municipality for rubbish collection. on certain dates of the month.

We continue to educate the local schools with our after-school "eco-club" programs to target the next generations to act responsibly in waste management.  

We are working our way towards a sustainable future of waste disposal, we hope you join us!

Links:

• Nelson Mandela DAKTARI Youtube Video