Last week ended with a workshop in teambuilding. Everyone agreed that communication, respect, trust and the sharing of experience, knowledge and ideas are some of the fundamental factors to create a good team spirit and a well functioning cooperation. We also discussed our strengths and weaknesses in order to get to know each other even better. As I asked whether they were starting to feel as a team there were no doubts in their reply – they all bursted out in an unanimous “YES!”. It was satisfying to understand that the work the last couple of weeks has had a very positive effect on the team spirit.
Another week of workshops, training and learning has now begun. To practice what we learnt in theory of different disabilities and to gain further knowledge of disabilities we started off this week by visiting a school for disabled children in Guguletu – another township in the outskirts of Cape Town. We had the opportunity to follow the work of an occupational and a physiotherapist and learnt how they assess the children, their improvements and some of the exercises they use to support the physical progress of the children. It was a very interesting learning experience! It was also delighting to realize that we could make use of our newly obtained knowledge in terms of our capability to evaluate the diagnosis of each child. I love hands-on skills and the feeling that you have actually learnt something useful!
Today we continued conducting interviews for the position of a fourth care giver. I learnt that as difficult it can be to separate the wheat from the chaff, as easy can it be to understand who is not meeting our expectations as an employee.
Like all the other weeks that I have been involved in Play on Wheels, this week has started out in the light of new skills, interesting discussions and further conviction of a brighter future for our kids.
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