I started off over a year ago at an amazing group home and haven't looked back. It is the warmest, most open community that I have experienced in a long time and although under resourced and at times understaffed there are great gardens to take a walk through and work rooms to visit where lavender bags and paper are made. Some of the food comes straight from the garden to the table and major celebrations and memorials are held outdoors under the African sky.
I attend the weekly Representative Group meeting where residents talk about happenings in their houses and organise outings and dictate letters to other organisations as well as prepare for self advocacy meetings with other organisations and in exhibitions of their work in public places.
The welcome and acceptance for the time that I spend there makes it so worthwhile to return every week.
About Me
- Following a second career
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Social worker and student in a changing South Africa.
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