Kulima and sensitisation

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One of the project Kulima is running nowadays consist in sensitisation for children. Las Tuesday, Rodao and Mary invited me to join them, as the children they visited were not so far, close to Inhambane. Tuesday was also Inhambane’s day, celebration of the city for the 52th time. It is a public day, it means, I could sleep longer, just I live right on the square where the celebration began, 7:30, super grasse mat’!!! Music, speech, meeting, the square was over full, A Praça dos Heroas, cheai de gente tao cedo!! Anyway, I visited the children outside there where it was quiet. Kulima organizes some games, or, they should but somehow, the children have to decide themselves or the teachers kind of give some ideas, but hey! It is Mozambique, organization and practice are not the best in the world yet. I taught them a game to introduce themselves and we did play it for more than a half hour. In Europe, children wuld be bored after a round, they did 5 or 6!! Some children, who won certain games get a T-shirt extra brought by Kukima!! Then, they can enjoy some theatre, talking about the importance of education, the right for all children to go to school, the way they can speak with their parents about it, even the girls, because no, they don’t have to be a mother when they are 13, they have the right to be educated as well as every body, for their future, learning writing and reading, sometimes, it’s more about the problem of violence in the family, about HIV, hygiene and sanity… The troupe adapts the presentation depending on the number of actors, the public…

Finally, Kulima gives a meal for everybody, some chicken, rice and bread with a cold drink, unfortunately, this is the highlight of the day for many of them I guess, not because they like eating, as it is the case by us, but because they have the opportunity to…

On the evening, I went with Luis to the concert organized pelo dia da cidade de Inhamane. It was supposed to be live music, I was thrilled about this opportunity. Well, it was honestly and objectively a bad performance, though I enjoyed it.

What else… I did horse riding last week end in Tofo, at 7 in the morning on the beach and in the bush, I loved it of course, then the day in the restaurant, bar and beach, wonderful!!

Some extras next week : pictures!! Rodao gave me the ones he did at school, and I “stole” Kulima’s one to memorize my lovely Inhambane’s town. The project is a bit stagnant at the moment, I am creating some documents for some ideally future tourists, map, history of the city…waiting for Lynne coming back next week and giving a dynamic to it again!! Poor Lynne, she should have arrived Sunday, but LAM, the Mozambican air company, the only in the country, cancelled the flight and reported it to Monday. I’m sure she is very pleased to stay one more day in Jo’Burg…

Rodao, and a teacher

Mary