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This blog will be an account my life working in a Refugee camp in Northern Zambia called Mwange. For the next year, I will be working for Right to Play, a sport and development organization based out of Toronto. What follows will be a life altering experience. Stay tuned....
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
July 29th
The second day of the Netball training today. I invited members of the girls netball team from the secondary school to come out and demonstrate the drills and activities that I would like the coaches doing with their students. It was really hot today and even though it is supposed to be the cold season, the temperature was up around 35 degrees. I felt bad making the participants run around and do the drills and I had promised to bring them water but, of course, I forgot…
It turned out that everyone was happy with the session and they were already making plans to start their own training sessions with the girls from the school.
In the afternoon, it was day 2 of the special needs workshop. Today the topic was stages of child development. The model of development that I showed them was based on children without special needs, so the participants were concerned that the model wouldn’t apply to these students. I had to explain to them that the model wasn’t in stone and that it could be adjusted based on the maturity level of the students and their specific disability. The teachers reminded me how flexible, open and assertive you need to be with special needs children. I’m always amazed by such insight into life these refugees have.
It turned out that everyone was happy with the session and they were already making plans to start their own training sessions with the girls from the school.
In the afternoon, it was day 2 of the special needs workshop. Today the topic was stages of child development. The model of development that I showed them was based on children without special needs, so the participants were concerned that the model wouldn’t apply to these students. I had to explain to them that the model wasn’t in stone and that it could be adjusted based on the maturity level of the students and their specific disability. The teachers reminded me how flexible, open and assertive you need to be with special needs children. I’m always amazed by such insight into life these refugees have.
