Caleb's Community Service
- Caleb
- Apr 3, 2010
- 4 min read

Location: Fisantekraal Urban Life Center
Activity breakdown:
Day 1: Preparing, and painting 2 walls and a fence. Sanding down a jungle gym and painting it at the won life clinic.

Day 2: Ran a 7 a side soccer tournament, the winning team was presented with certificates at the prize giving. After lunch children were coached on how to play chess.
Day 3: Was an anti Aids day, made colorful posters, and presented skits on why you should not litter and played games with children.


Day 4: Anti Litter day: Children were taught not to litter and they organized a litter campaign all children attending were given black bags and they helped the scouts collect all the litter laying around the community center filling a fantastic 10 full bags of litter.

Day 5: Organized a fun day with local children, games and party packets donated by city of Cape Town.

Day’s Plans in detail:
Day 1 - Monday
7: 30-Meet the team at the scout hall, collect indemnity forms
8.00-Arrive at wonlife, introduce the team to the staff of wonlife and hold a team breifing.
8:30 – Finalise our art work for flyers and print –Flyers to advertize the weeks activities (aids campaign, soccer day and Litter pick up) , these will be handed out at clinic run by Wonlife)
9:30 – Receive/fetch the equipment needed for the days activities. Supplied by Wonlife
10:10 – Prepare outside area where we will paint, masking tape, paper etc
10:30 – Start painting
12:00 – clean up
12:30 – Lunch
13:00 – Wash inside wall where kids have drawn
13:30 - Prepare wall for painting, paper ect
14:00 – Paint wall
15:30 – Clean up
15:45 – pack painting equipment away
16:00 – mom will collect us and take us back to hall
16:30 – Parents collect from hall
Day 2 – Tuesday
7: 30-Meet the team at the scout hall, collect indemnity forms
8.00-Arrive at wonlife, Collect necessary equipment, travel to community centre Equipment from Wonlife
8:30 – Register teams for junior soccer – name and age maximun 28 children . Put children into four teams for 7 a side soccer.
9:00 – 2 teams play A & B
9:20 – half time, oranges I will supply for day one pocket R30
9:25 – 2nd half
9:45 – end 2nd half, break, frozen bunny licksI will supply 4 packet for day @ R3 a bag- R12
10:00 – 2 teams play C&D
10:20 – half time, oranges
10:25 – 2nd half
10:45 – end 2nd half, break, frozen bunny licks
11:00 – 2 teams play Winners play
11:20 – half time, oranges
11:25 – 2nd half
11:45 – end 2nd half, break, frozen bunny licks
12:00 – Hand out Certificates to winning team
12:15 - Lunch
12:30 - Registration for seniors
13:00 – 2 teams play A & B
13:20 – half time, oranges
13:25 – 2nd half
13:45 – end 2nd half, break, frozen bunny licks
14:00 – 2 teams play C&D
14:20 – half time, oranges
14:25 – 2nd half
14:45 – end 2nd half, break, frozen bunny licks
15:00 – 2 teams play Winners play
15:20 – half time, oranges
15:25 – 2nd half
15:45 – end 2nd half, break, frozen bunny licks
15:45 – Hand out Certificates to winning team, pack up, load vehicle, travel to won life
16:00 – mom fetch up and travel back to hall
Day 3: Wednesday
7: 30-Meet the team at the scout hall, collect indemnity forms
8.00-Arrive at wonlife, Collect necessary equipment, travel to community centre
8:30 – All children who played soccer would have been invited to help with the fun clean up. Organise children in to teams and explain that the team with the most litter collected is going to receive a reward.
9:00 – Clean up begins in side community area, clinic, soccer field and libuary areas
11:00 – Collect bags judge and reward winners, give children bunny licks and, trying to find sun peaks anti litter to be donated I will buy 2 bags of bunny licks @ R3 a bag R6
11:30 – Talk by me on Pollution and anti litter
12:00 – Lunch
12:30 – Start general gardening , weeding or what ever else gardener needs us to help with
14:30 – clean up, load vehicle,travel back to Wonlife centre
15:00 – Meeting about aids awareness day tomorrow- final arrangements pack stuff ready
16:00 – Mom collect us and take us back to scout hall
Day 4: Thursday
7: 30-Meet the team at the scout hall, collect indemnity forms
8.00-Arrive at wonlife, Collect necessary equipment, travel to community centre
8:30 – Set up tables for display, blow up balloons etc – All supplied by Wonlife
9:00 – Greet local community members at clinic, and chat etc, explaining what we are doing here
Talk to people
hand out information on aids
Read story books to children about aids
Explain that testing happens at clinic, free of charge etc
12:30 – lunch
13:00 – Greet local community members at clinic, and chat etc, explaining what we are doing here
Talk to people
hand out information on aids
Read story books to children about aids
Explain that testing happens at clinic, free of charge etc
15:30 – Pack up, travel back to wonlife, unpack equipment
16:00 – mom collects us
Day 5 - Friday
7: 30-Meet the team at the scout hall, collect indemnity forms
8.00-Arrive at wonlife, Collect necessary equipment, travel to community centre
9: 00 – Registration, first 20 junior children – divided into 2 for team games Aeroplanes (2X buckets, news paper)
Pig face (2X bowls, 2X packets of sour worms,3kg flour )
Bench volley ball (8X benches, 20X ballons)
Bridges (4X bean bags)
Crab soccer (2X soccer balls)
Open gates
9:20 - Aeroplanes
9:40 – Ladders
10: 00 – pig face
10:20- Bench volley ball
10:40 – tea break
11:00 – Crab soccer
11:20 – open gates
11:40 – Bridges
12:00 – Thank children for coming
12:15 - lunch
12 :30 – Registration first 20 senior children into 4 groups
13:00 – learn how to set up a chess board, learn the names of the pieces All scouts will bring a chess board along that day
13:00 – learn some basic rules
13:00 – attempt to play one group against another
13:00 – those that show potentional, set up to play a game others play on finger boards and other games that community hall is equiped with
15:30 – tidy up, thank everyone travel back to wonlife centre
16:00 – Mom collect us and travel back to hall.
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