Rhodes students got into the spirit of giving for Community Engagement Week by helping those in need, and having a good time while they’re at it.
Rhodes students got into the spirit of giving for Community Engagement Week by helping those in need, and having a good time while they’re at it.
The students from Drostdy Hall held a fun day for 30 pupils from NV Cewu Primary on Friday 5 March. The pupils, who ranged from Grades 1 to 3, were transformed into animals or princesses by having their faces painted by volunteers from the hall.
Then they had the run of a jumping castle and an early Easter egg hunt. Even the teachers from the school had fun on the jumping castle.
Zodwa Santi, a Grade 3 teacher from the school said about the outing: “It’s so nice and the children are so happy. Some of them have never seen a jumping castle.”
Hall Senior Student Kirsten Farquharson said that the aim of the fun day was to initiate a relationship with the school so that the hall can one day adopt the school.
“We can identify something that the school needs and this can then turn into a long-term fundraising project for the hall.”
Students from the Student HIV and Aids Resistance Campaign (Sharc) also organised an event for children by having a dance-off.
Sixty children from Jabez Aids Health Care Centre and Raphael Centre were taught dance moves by volunteers and then had to shake it up the dance floor.
Abigail de Jager, Sharc’s head of community engagement said that they decided to have a dance-off because “these kids are faced with challenges; some are from child-headed households so they can just have fun for anight and forget about everything else”.
