We are 13 kids living in Pretoria, South Africa. We live at 2 different shelters - the girls at Tswane Home of Hope - the boys at Child Soul Care. We all live together, which makes us very close. The shelters are a safe place. We eat, sleep, go to school, go to church and play together. Photography is very new to us but we’re happy to share our stories with you!

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2. 4 themes from
Pretoria, South Africa
Photos by the kids from:
Twsane Home of Hope
and Child Soul Care
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3. We live in Pretoria. It is one of 3 capital cities in South
Africa.
Our
Flag!
South Africa
South
Africa!
We have 11 official languages in the country. They are:
Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho,
Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
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4. For 46 years, we had an apartheid
government - a system of racial segregation.
Whites and Blacks were separated.
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5. To tell a story about our lives in
South Africa today, we broke
into four teams.
Each team chose a name, and
practiced using the digital
cameras. Then we decided what
stories we wanted to tell.
These are our themes:
Culture,
History,
Peace
& Happy People.
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6. This is Pretoria, the city where we live.
We picked themes then took pictures in:
- Church Square in central Pretoria.
- The parks and markets in our neighborhoods.
- Freedom Park, which honors the end of Apartheid.
- The Union Building, where our first president Nelson
Mandela was inaugurated.
Come, explore Pretoria with us!
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7. Team: Cool Girls
Topic: Culture
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8. Traditional Ndebelé wedding
“The women, they are who they are, and they are proud of who they are.” - NosiPhiwe
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9. Culture - Afrikaans wedding
“I like red. Red is friendship and togetherness.” - NosiPhiwe
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10. “My favorite (photo) is the Ndebele wedding. If a girl is getting married, she walks in
the street with that blanket.” - Nancy
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12. “Culture is where you come from. It’s the background of your ancestors, and your
ancestors’ grannie.” - Zozuku
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13. “We do culture to remember our grandmothers and grandfathers, remember how
they used to celebrate culture.” - Nancy
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15. “Our theme is culture. We chose culture because it’s our religion in South Africa. We
have different religion, and how we dress and how we eat.” - Zozuku
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16. “I went to Church Square. It has a lot of history, but it also had a lot of people
wearing their cultural clothes, and it was nice.” - Nancy
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17. Team: Fine Team Super Boys
Topic: History
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18. “The theme that we chose is history, because we wanted to know more about the
past, what happened last time people were fighting for freedom.” - Lindo
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19. “Apartheid was the discrimination against black people by the white people, a long
time ago here in South Africa.” - Lindo
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20. “In the town, they (now) allow black people to walk free everywhere. Long time ago, they
would not allow you to stand near the statues, or in the beautiful parks.” - Lindo
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21. “Now there is freedom in South Africa, but there’s another fight against
xenophobia. People are killing the refugees, and it’s not good.” - Lindo
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22. “My hero is Nelson Mandela, who was fighting for us for freedom. He lived in the
jail for 27 years for freedom. So that we could live in peace.” - Happy
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24. “The thing I took that makes me proud was the tree, the African Tree I took at
Freedom Park.” - Doctor
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25. “My favorite picture is that one from Freedom Park, because it has the names of the
people that were fighting against apartheid.” - Alfred
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26. Team: Cheese Boys
Topic: Peace
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27. “We chose peace because long, long time ago South Africa didn’t have peace.
Now is the new South Africa. South Africa has peace now.” - George
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28. “We chose peace because, long time ago, South Africa wasn’t having peace. Our
grandmothers, our mothers were fighting. But us, we are free now.” - Thabiso
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29. “I’d love to show that we’ve got beautiful places in South Africa.” - Nlhanlhan
(Lucky)
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30. “Peace, I think is when people are greeting each other when they pass each other.
They don’t fight while they see each other.” - Thabiso
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31. “My favorite place to go was Church Square, because we see many people who have
peace. They are smiling to each other, they are not angry to each other. ” - George
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33. “We went to church to take pictures of peace, because many people in church have
peace. They don’t fight with others.” - Thabiso
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34. (song)
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35. Team: Girlfriends
Topic: Happy People
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36. “We as Girlfriends, we chose Happy People because Happy People are everywhere.” -
Boitumelo
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37. “Our theme was about Happy People. Cause we know that happy people, they’re all
over, so you won’t struggle to find them.” - Loren
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38. “What makes me happy is when I see blue, and for being alive, I’m happy to be alive.
I’m happy when I see flowers. Flowers make me shine!” - Loren
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39. “My favorite photo was when we were in Church Square, we found a lady and a guy
laughing. We asked them to take a picture. They laughed during the picture, and
their picture is beautiful.” - Itumeleng
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40. “On Sundays I like to go to church with my mother and her friends.” - Itumeleng
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41. A singer celebrating at church.
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42. “We told them we were doing a project, so that they agreed with us. Then we took
their photos.” - Boitumelo
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43. “Our project was nice and good, because it was not difficult to find happy people.
Everywhere you go, everywhere you see, everywhere.” - Itumeleng
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