SOS Meeting

For our second SOS meeting we met with the orphans. They came to school and each of the SOS members picked two kids to focus on. We will stay with those kids for the rest of the year so that we develop a strong relationship with these kids. The two kids I get the privilege to hang out with for the whole year names are Maric and Ishara.
Once we got to know the kids names, me had them create a poster about stuff that defines them. They drew their names and things that they really like. After we drew the posters, we gave them food and drinks to have and then we just had a little social gathering.
For our next meeting we are planning to go and play some games in the pool. This will be really fun for the kids because they told us that they love to go swimming.

Maric on the left and Ishara on the right

These are the posters they drew.

Football

Every Wednesday and Thursday after school I have been playing little football matches with other kids from our school. On Wednesday, we play with kids from grades 8-12. This is fun because there is a wide variety of skills, talent and new players to get to know. On Thursday we play with the SAISA football team plus some adults. This is definitely my favorite football session because we divide the teams evenly and just play a match. There is a lot of experienced people playing on Thursdays so it the football is more intense and fun.

First SOS meeting

Yesterday we had our first SOS meeting. In this meeting we stated what are goals are for the whole year and we planned what we are doing for the next meeting.
Our goals for this year are for each SOS member to connect with 2-3 kids from the orphanage on a personal level so that we provide an 'older brother/relative' relationship to them. We will be meeting with them once every week with our same group of 2-3 kids so that we develop a really good bond with them for the whole year.
For next week we planned to meet the kids for the first time. They are going to come to OSC and while they are here we are planning on doing some activities to initiate our bond. We will be doing arts and crafts with them as well so that we can decorate our SOS board for everyone to see.