I am so VERY VERY EXCITED! On Sunday we are celebrating 20yrs of Scouts in Limpopo! We will be having a return of young people that you have been introduced to over the years, they are coming together with the Court of Honours (the leadership committee for each group) from each troop to celebrate this victory. 20YEARS!!! Who would have thought it would happen! Let me give you the back story just in case you don’t know it. In 2003, I came to South Africa to work with the Department of Health and seconded to another Non Governmental Organization in Tzaneen. It was there I met Zabe (Elizabeth – our program manager). After a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats Analysis) with approx. 200 Home Based Care Workers, I was tasked to “Do Something” for the kids of Greater Tzaneen. You see these Home Based Care Workers identified that the children’s plight was so soul destroying, that they struggled with the sense of hopelessness. They felt they could do nothing. This was during a peak HIV/AIDS pandemic, so the kids were reacting to what was happening at home, at school, in their communities, they were not coping. There responses where […]