Assembly/Presentation at Nyaluza

We officially launched the anti-littering campaign this morning, the Nyaluza school took it on well. One of the geography students spoke in front of the assembly where approximately 100 students were gathered and then the drama students did their skit and it created dialogue which lead to singing and chatting about it. Afterwards the school went around picking up papers for twenty minutes before their classes. The learners' reaction was interesting some wanted to pick up yet it seemed 'uncool', however as they saw other students missioning around and picking up litter they warmed up to the idea.

My only concern is the sustainability of the project itself. I think perhaps once a month this could be done so as to entrench and create a culture of picking up litter around their school. And Tinyiko suggested we produce a dvd and send it to other schools around the Grahamstown, so that it could be a model to follow and hopefully be something of value. Tomorrow is the last event on our radio/photojourn agenda, we are taking the learners to the river clean up organised by Grass. I'll fill you in later...