Secondary Schools

Sight of Cape Town, the wharf, and the Neighborhood

OLD UPDATE

As promised, I would update you all about the schools I went and visited. It is all recorded below.

Fezeka and Sibelius

Part of my work in Cape Town involves dealing with adolescents. When I say adolescents I mean older children who are primarily in secondary schools (high schools).Therefore, it is required for me to visit these schools as part of my research and the study I am a part of. The two schools I have mentioned above are in extremely rough township areas around Cape Town. It broke my heart a little to see the states of schools in these areas. Children fight for desks in the classroom. Many of the children are involved in gangs and all, and two weeks ago, one of the high schools I mentioned above had so much gang violence that rapes were occurring on a daily basis. A lot of the staff I spoke to mentioned also that pregnancy was happening at an alarming rate in these schools with someone becoming pregnant “every week”. I will go further into detail regarding these schools when I can get a moment to really articulately express my thoughts on the problems in townships I see here, and why I feel my work here couldn’t possibly be done in the short amount of time I am here.

Friday I worked normally from home. My car was having issues and I had a minor case of eating something bad and my body disagreeing with it :/

The next post is about my city seeing adventure in cape town and the peninsula and covers quite a bit of ground. I will post it shortly.

Best,
Carolyn