AAF News

• Raffle

  13/7/2009

  
  Hand-sown quilt - tickets $2.  Drawn 22/11/09 on Jacaranda Harbour Cruise.   Tickets available at Surgery or from any Board member.  All proceeds to support AAF projects.
  

• School Links

  29/5/2009

  School International Partnership Program (Pilot)
  To establish links between schools in the Okhahlamba Municipality and Australian schools to foster and expand mutual understanding, friendship co-operation between students and teachers in South Africa and Australia.
  To increase awareness of each others' cultural, social and economic and health.
  For Australian schools and their students to understand the issues of poverty directly.
  For teaching staff in both countries to exchange skills and knowledge.
  PROGRESS TO DATE
  • In December 2008 African AIDS Foundation Chairperson Dr John Schwarz spoke to the Principal and staff at St Peters Anglican Primary School Campbelltown about the concept.
  • St Peters were linked up with Intumbane Primary School.
  • An Australian volunteer in Bergville liaised between Intumbane Primary School and St Peters Primary School in establishing the link
  • The two schools exchanged correspondence early in 2009.
  • St Peters requested Intumbane to identify any educational and other needs it had.
  • St Peters students fund raised from a school disco for a water pump for the school and has also forwarded four laptop computers and educational material to Intumbane.
  • Intumbane students have written letters to St Peters School introducing themselves.
  • The project is a pilot which the AAF Board has endorsed as a priority project for the future.
  
  You can read more about how this is working with St Peters Anglican Primary School at Campbelltown NSW by accessing their site at www.stpeters.nsw.edu.au     Week 6, Term 1 Newsletter describes what the school has been doing.  The school is to be congratulated on their achievement.  This is an excellent model for other schools to follow.  The school is happy to be contacted for advice and inspiration.
  
  
  

• Eddie Ozols

  29/5/2009

  For the past few months Eddie Ozols has been on leave from his position as a Manager with the NSW Department of Disability and Aging visiting projects supported by AAF. His role has been to visit the projects and formulate improved processes by which AAF and its partners in Africa relate to each other. He has also spent time providing assistance and training to our African partners. AAF expresses its gratitude to the time Eddie has so willingly given.
  What did Eddie actually do while in Africa? Eddie has provided a photographic summary of his time at http://picasaweb.google.com/eddieozols/WhatTheHeckDidEddieDoInAfricaForThreeMonths?feat=email#