Slideshow produced by Ivor Garlick from the October 2009 Global Development Ambassadors trip.

1. Our trip to South AfricawithThink Impact(formerly Student Movement for Real Change) October – November 2009

4. South African National Anthem

5. Tswana (Pretoria) Jacaranda city

6. Nelspruit Int’l Airport

7. Skyway Trails ZiplineHazyview. The Lowveld

8. Our guide and security!

9. The attachment

10. The Slide

11. Elaine

12. Jeffrey

13. Always good to know your ropes

14. Swing voter?

15. Sometimes mam(b)as are found on the Platform

16. Seen from above. Who’d walk here?

17. The decent

18. It’s knot what you think it is

19. The leadership at lunch, Hazyview (again)

20. Utha bakeryThink Impact Initiative (Kaitlin)

21. The bakery – from Mixmaster to ovenKaitlin helping to organize and train the locals to run the bakery

22. Utha Bakery staff (and bread) – fresh, warm and delicious every day

23. Utha chickens – fresh warm and delicious - every day

24. Some concentrate more than others!

25. …. Even in Utha ….dressed up just like Mom

26. One of the soccer fields sponsored by Think Impact

27. $20,000 to complete the soccer field

28. Utha Goats fresh warm and delicious - every day

29. Owner of Utha General Store

30. No matter where you are, there is always ……………

31. What should we buy?

32. “Gated” community in Utha

33. Lining up for daily water. Hopefully, this too will change soon

34. Arrival of the water

35. Filling the drums

36. Trying to prevent flu. Notice displayed at the school

37. What it is all about!

38. Welcome from the pupils of the Samson Sibuyi Primary School

39. A Library – Think Impact initiative

40. The handprints of Think Impact

41. Dancing pupils – a display of their skill all for us

42. Cadets turned comedy!

43. The sweet faces of South Africa

44. Enjoying the dancing and, curiously, watching us!

45. Pupils first. Then….

46. The teachers - how it’s really done!

48. No starving children. A wonderful sight for Africa

49. A borehole in Utha. Bored by now? I think so. More to come we hope.

50. Samson Sibuyi Primary School

51. The smilers

52. Makrepeni Community Center and Creche.Think Impact cleaned, painted and brought in computers for the Center.

53. Working closely with the dedicated Mr. DeppaMathonsi, principal. Saul and MrMathonsi examining an unused borehole

54. Happy faces

55. A few of the 3,500 pupils who are given a daily meal in the area

56. Malnutrition is not evident because of the daily meal

57. Apple tree

58. Kat teaching the kids yoga

59. ……under the watchful eye of the carnivores and others

60. Delicious pap

61. ……..

62. A mother’s (or wife’s?) bliss!

63. ….. Natives?

64. Sarah, Angie and Claire…. discussingwhere the Utha Community Hall will be built – meetings held under the marula trees

65. Ahhh another library

66. The meal plan for the crecheour daily bread……

67. …. And our daily activities

68. School’s admission policy.It’s worthy of reading

69. Searching for the root

70. The beginning, really

71. Who did you say was here?

72. …..for schools in the US to take heed

73. Adorable! The wall paintings, I mean

74. Ahhhhh…. ANOTHER library  

75. Interesting!

76. Least we forget – Mandela freedPosted in the Library

77. Doris… teacher, explaining some of her struggles regarding alcohol and HIVnot too different to kids in the USA

78. Doris (from the village of Dixie), teacher, mother, and counselor with Alyse

79. Soccer field at Manyangana High School in Utha (Think Impact Initiative)

80. Relaxing at Richard and Doris Siwela’shouse in Utha

81. Our room

82. Before the rest

83. Good morning, June. Breakfast pleaseIn the kitchen

84. Melbourne in the living room

85. …..

86. Pearl

87. In Pearl’s room. A blue state

88. Living room, TV and front entrance

89. Our hosts, Doris and the girls

90. Anyone for an iced tea or other?

91. Vanessa, Jeffrey and Alyse

92. And the rents

93. Another flower bed, The Mahlathi School

94. …..

95. …..

96. Mashlati Primary School computer room. Think Impact initiative

97. ….inside

98. Ahhhhhanother library   

99. … same one

100. ……

101. Teach and learn

102. Saul and the principal.The computer room

103. The school bathrooms and quad

104. Another soccer field, thinkThink Impact again

105. Trailer for the school – another Think Impact contribution

106. …. classrooms and trailer

107. Along the road to Lillydale

111. Poor and rudimentary

112. Bhubezi Clinic, Lillydale, where 2,500 people receive treatment (mostly for HIV/AIDS)

113. Wheelchairs for the 24 hour unit

114. Jewels of Utha, well okay, just visitors of Utha…… outside the new clinic

115. …. The clinic in Utha. Soon to be opened

116. Megan, Kat and Saul at the Entrance to the Clinic

117. The Pharmacy

118. Reception, File room and Exam rooms

119. Looking back on Utha

120. Leaving Utha

121. On our way to Djuma

122. On the way ------ to Djuma