JUNE/JULY 2010 POP SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME
“BACK TO THE BASICS”
WEEK 1: Education (Monday, 14 June 2010 – Friday, 18 June 2010)
Purpose: To equip the school-going children youth with the necessary skills to improve their ability read, count and complete their school assignments which will enhance their educational potential.
Age categories: 14 – 18 years old (school-going learners) and 7 – 13 year olds (school-going learners)
Total children and youth: 300 children and youth
Day 1: Monday, 14 June 2010
Goedgedacht Farm (20 youth)
07:00 – 08:00 pick up youth from farms
08:00 – 08:30 prepare sandwiches
08:30 – 09:00 opening and welcoming (expectations of week)
09:00 – 09:30 breakfast
09:30 – 10:30 start homework and assignments
10:30 – 10:45 ice breakers
10:45 – 11:45 homework and assignments continues
11:45 – 12:50 PACE course
12:50 – 13:00 closing of day 1 – part 1
13:00 – 14:30 lunch (100 children and youth)
Day 1: Monday, 14 June 2010
Riebeek Kasteel (40 youth)
8:30 – 09:00 prepare the venue and sandwiches
09:00 – 09:30 breakfast
09:30 – 09:45 introduction to the week’s programme
09:45 – 10:00 educational Icebreakers
10:00 – 10:30 the starting point? – understanding the brief
10:30 – 11:00 practical exercises to understand a brief
11:00 – 11:30 tea / Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 looking for information to answer the brief
12:00 – 12:45 practical experience to look for information
12:45 – 13:00 closing of day 1 – part 1
13:00 – 14:30 lunch (200 children and youth)

Despite which direction you look, poverty is taking hold faster than ever. What saddens me is the new report that has been circulating the news media outlates today stating how one in seven people are surviving under the poverty line in the US.
I hope things do not get worse anywhere in the world than they currently are.