Trip to Wobelenzi Town Academy

We have recently just come back from a trip to Wobelenzi where we spent 5 days doing volunteer work for a school funded by an organisation called serve direct. during our visit we were involved in a series of activities and conducted a variety of leisurely and cooperative workshops. 

some of the work shops included: 

• origami 
• spray painting 
• 3D origami 
• break dancing 
• computing skills 
• song writing 
• cricket

When we weren't doing our work shops in the afternoon we were helping our around the school doing things like mural painting, landscaping or building a goat shelter.

My visit to Wobelenzi town academy was an incredibly rewarding and enlightening experience. The students proved themselves to be attentive and interested in our work shops and showed an incomprehensible level of focus and maturity when it came to doing our activities. The students were able to communicate with us very openly and were vocal about thier opinions and were able to feed us with constructive criticism during our workshops. me and talisha were conducting a song writing work shop and it is through this work shop that we met arnold. arnold is a student at wobelenzi town academy who has dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter one day. he approached us on the first day and told us about how exited he was to be apart of our work shop. We had heard allot about him from the DP 2's but he has totally exceeded our expectations. He was so passionate and incredibly helpful to me and Talisha who were knew at the school and had slight troubles communicating with the group in English. In the end we were able to come up with three amazing songs one of which we sang on the last day of our visit in the school assembly. 

Apart from doing my song writing work shop in the mornings i would work on a mural with a few other people at the bridge. We painted a train with the alphabet at the bridge (primary resource center) as a favor to the school, it was a great experience being able to work with DP 1's on the mural and the end result was better than we ever could have imagined, students of the school came and helped us paint towards the end and we ended up having some great conversations. 

On the last day of our trip some of us worked with the younger students at the bridge doing fun activities with them like puzzles, coloring and flash cards. It was great to be able to play with them and do something light, in comparison to trying to control huge numbers of older students. 

Overall it was an incredibly rewarding experience and i left Wobelenzi with an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment.

Kisu Interact club.

I am a member of the Kisu interact club and we meet once a week in miss Bamwoeraki's room. Here is a brief outline of what we do in the club.

Interact is a club for youth ages 12-18 who want to connect with others in their community or school. Interact club members have fun while carrying out service projects and learning about the world. Interact clubs organize at least two service projects a year: one that benefits their community and one that encourages international understanding. While Interact clubs receive guidance from individual Rotary clubs, they govern and support themselves.

Some of the things we do in interact are:

Carry out hands-on service projects
Make international connections
Develop leadership skills




The goal of international service through Interact is to encourage and foster the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of youth united in the ideal of service. Interact clubs organize a variety of projects and activities, depending primarily on the interests of the club member. Service Above Self is Rotary's foremost guiding principle. An Interact club's service projects are designed to improve the quality of life at home and abroad. These projects often address today's most critical issues, such as violence, drug abuse, AIDS, hunger, the environment, and illiteracy. Each Interact club is required to complete at least two major service projects annually; one to serve the community and another to promote international understanding. Each should involve all or most of the members of the club.

We have been able to achieve a lot since the beginning of the club in term 1. we were able to provide for a girl names Josephine with sickle cell anemia as well as work at a charity drive and attend the national Rotarian conference which the head of rotary was able to attend.

interact stands for International Action and carries out projects based on four main elements, Community Service, Finance, International Understanding and Club Service.

signatories: Sophie Bamwoeraki, Ingrid Saito Maciel

Model United Nations (MUN)

I have been in model united nations for about a month and a half now and the club takes place on Fridays after school from 3:10 to 4:15.

here is a brief description of what we do in the club:

The participants role-play as diplomats representing a country or NGO in a simulated session of a committee of the United Nations, such as the Security Council or the General Assembly. Participants research a country, take on roles as diplomats, investigate international issues, debate, deliberate, consult, and then develop solutions to world problems. More recently, simulation of other deliberative, such as the United Nations Security Council, has been included in Model United Nations, even if they are completely unrelated to the UN or international affairs as a whole. In general, the participants that the executive panel considers to be most contributing are given awards, such as 'Best Delegate award'.

When in the club, participants must employ a variety of communication and critical thinking skills in order to represent the policies of their country. These skills include public speaking, group communication, research, policy analysis, active listening, negotiating, conflict resolution, note taking, and technical writing.

Signatories include: miss Catherine Meyer, miss Liz Charsley

The club is a great place to interact with other people and really learn about what its like to be in the united nations. also it teaches you how to work collaboratively with others because your are often put into groups representing a country or a political group and it forces you to work along side different people. 

In the club i work collaboratively with other people to do things like write policy statements or talk about the political front that i represent within my group. Position papers should explain an issue from their country's point of view. It is also good practice that they include statistics about the issue that would support the cause they defend. The paper would also try to convince the other countries of the committee to their view of the issue. It would have ways to solve the situation.