Global Camps Africa - Camp Sizanani - April 2009 Camp

Camp Sizanani - April 2009 Camp

There are so many interesting and exciting things at each camp session that I should share them sooner, rather than wait to make a more formal camp report. At the very least, it rewards those who make their way to this site.

160 campers, 126 from a single Soweto school;
Coed, ages 14-19. Many have had a 9-session, peer education life skills session called "Future Footprints." This is an Elton John AIDS Foundation-sponsored project that HIVSA is implementing. This is the first school they have been in;
Visitors from 3 provincial programs in Western Cape, Mpumalanga, and the Free State seeing how camp could add to their child/youth programs;
14 makeup artists from MAC Cosmetics worked with our 85 girls to give them makeovers and improve their self-esteem by showing how to make themselves more beautiful;
reuniting with two Camp Winnebago kitchen workers from the 1990s who are, respectively, managing director of a large mushroom farm and distributor and a corporate jet sales director for all of Africa, both interested in assisting us;
another performance by the inspiring Hecate Theatre Group urging, in an engaging, funny way, that campers get tested for HIV;
having professional counseling and HIV testing personnel at camp. They saw 70 campers and 69 got tested; and
at the US Embassy in Pretoria, I met with the acting ambassador, the director of US AID, and the representative of the CDC (Center for Disease Control). They had excellent ideas for providing us with good contacts in South Africa. I met with operational people at AID and are working with them to have us provide training to 32 of their camp programs.

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