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Day in the Life of a Volunteer Tutor
@beautifulgatesa Zanozuko Marhamba is a tutor for the learner education support club and he tutors at a primary school. Zanozuko tutors literacy and numeracy. He started a community project where he facilitates dance in the Crossroads community. And this is his typical day: Before 8:00 a.m. My day is like this, I get ready for work, I don’t check messages on my phone (laughs). I usually exercise at home before I go to work. 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m – I get to work and I don’t eat breakfast at all, and when I’m at work I immediately get to my computer and start working on Salesforce before nine am and I do the children’s register of attendance. 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Normally take a walk around the Beautiful Gate space and I go back to work again. Then I prepare for the earner education support club, usually I do the numeracy preparations first. 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – I’m making copies of activity sheets and then gathering my tools for class and then I walk to the school. I also meet up with my team to arrange the snack for the children. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. I get to the school and we start with the register and then a prayer. I enjoy doing literacy with them but everyday before we start with any activity we check for home works and I assist the children with their homework. I love with children and what I love most about that is sharing the word of God. On Wednesdays we usually dedicate the day to learning about the word of God with the children using fun stories and activities. After 4:00 p.m. – I get home at about 5pm and then go straight to soccer practice. Blossom Salman-Grade 11 learner from Vuyiseka High School "I was born in Cape Town in 1999 and live with my family in Acacia Park in Lower Crossroads. My sister used to attend a youth club at Beautiful Gate and in 2015 I decided to find out more about what Beautiful Gate does. Because I love education I applied for the high school programme. Ever since I started attending the after school tutoring classes at Beautiful Gate it's been great, I can now also help other learners at school. Because of the challenges within the community and at school I overcome them through praying and writing poetry. I see myself with a degree in performing arts and media. There is so much I want to achieve and I am focused."
Ziyanda, a Grade 6 learner, lives in Lower Crossroads with her parents and older sister, When she joined Beautiful Gate's After school education support programme in June 2015, she was struggling a lot and was so shy, lacking confidence in herself.
After a few weeks in the programme, her academics started improving, but she still lacked confidence. It was then that our tutors decided to initiate some one-on-one sessions with her, encouraging her that she could do better. Over the past few months she has started gaining confidence and now she is one of our best learners who participates willingly and helps others in the class. On the weekend of the 10-11 of October we had a camp with our current Grade 10 learners who are part of the High School Education Support programme.
We are excited to have been selected as an implementing partner for Ikamva Youth and were able to start with this group in the third term of the year. The learners come from 4 different High Schools in the community, namely Phandulwazi, Phakama, Vuyiseka and Philippi High. The learners are doing the Maths, Physical Science, Accounting and Economics. plus English and e-learning and we have secured tutors from Teach Out as well as local tutors from CPUT, UWC and UCT. In 2016 we will be expanding our programme to reach more high school learners. On 3-4 October 2015 we organised a 'farewell' session for our 25 Matric learners from New Eisleben High School. These learners have been part of our two year programme that included classroom interaction with tutors, site visits to Tertiary Institutions of Higher Education and retreats on quarterly basis. The learners were selected by their school because of the progress they were showing in Maths and Science and their potential to become the best students academically with additional support from tutors.
During the programme, we have covered various life skills topics from Personal Development to the “softer” skills needed in the World of Work. We have assisted them with Career Guidance and Planning, as well discussed the importance of being a good citizen. The tutorial support was provided by Teach Out, a student organisation based at the University of Cape Town. We are grateful that this organisation will continue with their support next year as we expand our programme to reach more learners. We wish these learners well in their final exams and will mentor and support them next year as part of our Post-Matric Support Programme and look forward to hearing of their successes
Calling all cyclists! Would you like to do the Cape Town Cycle Tour 2016? We're purchasing our Group Entries soon. Email events@beautifulgate,org
Today we said goodbye to a wonderful group of volunteers and interns who are leaving us over the next few days. They have passionately served Beautiful Gate with their talents whether as social work students, in our after school programme, working on marketing or in our cafe.
Vaughan Stannard, Director of Beautiful Gate expressed his appreciation. "A special thank you to our wonderful volunteers from home and abroad for their faithful service! Bless you Margje, Roxanne, Yalelwa, Phelokhazi, Nosimphiwe and Esther for being part of the team and all your hard work. We will miss you!" We are often looking for new volunteers and currently have vacancies for Tutors (Maths, Science and Accounting especially) for our expanding high school tutoring programme, We also have vacancies for our primary school After School clubs. Find out more here or email volunteers@beautifulgate.org |
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