DAY 3!

Day three started from us travelling 61 km from Mafikeng to Zeerust to meet the Ramatu High School Millennium Kids Team. We ran a workshop with them and the students got to have a say on what they like about their community, what they don’t like about their community and what they want to change.

The students brought up a whole range of issues both good and bad. They said they really liked their Indigenous Animals, families and culture. However they didn’t like pollution in the rivers, teenage pregnancy and poaching. The kids were optimistic and keen to make positive change in partnership with the MKGP South Africa Team.

Day three taught us that water is more important than we already thought. As we were travelling into Ramatu High School we found that the village near by were on strike to raise awareness about their limited access to water.

Ramatu High School had many problems that we are keen to help the students solve. In particular, the toilets were the main issue as there were three different facilities with only one of them working. The original toilets were pit latrines which were attempted to be replaced as were not healthy. The replacement was toilets that use water to flush. These were never used as water is scarce in the area and consequentially knocked down. The last toilets constructed were environmentally friendly and they were built to replace both the water toilets and the pit latrines. Again, these have never been used because the school was never provided with chemical to break down the faeces. The students are still using the original pit latrine toilets.

After visiting Ramatu High School we reported our findings to Cllr S S Sereki, who is working with the Mayor of the Zeerust. He praised the MKGP South Africa efforts and endorsed our project.