PHAKAMISA is pronounced pa-ga-mee-sa.
A Zulu word meaning 'to uplift.'

MEET THE PHAKAMISA TEAM

We are a team of committed people, living out our Christian faith and values, using our skills and talents we work to serve people in impoverished communities.

Meet some of the Phakamisa people and revisit regularly as we monthly post the profiles of different staff members.

MEET THE TEAM

COOKING TRAINER

My name is Zola.  I heard about Phakamisa and joined a caregiver group in 2004, becoming a Caregiver monitor by that November. My area is north of Durban including the communities of KwaMashu, Inanda, Lindelani and Tongaat.  I had to do 9 visits per month and attend 2 days workshops at Phakamisa. Before this I was employed by FSA Human Consultants from 1986 but was made redundant when they merged with another company in 2003.

A year after becoming a monitor I was sent on a number of training courses that included:

1.Permaculture at Newlands East – where we learnt to grow vegetables using no chemicals.

2. Attended a course on GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) and their threat to our environment and nation.

3. Worm Course at the Botanical gardens in Durban and at Inanda Newtown Meth Church a course on double digging and the making of compost.

4. A St John’s Ambulance  course on Home Base Care.

5. My further training included attending courses on building a chicken tractor and chicken farming and the relationship between chickens and vegetable planting.

A catering workshop.

Adult Literacy – trained as a trainer to train adults in literacy.

NCS Resin – learning about the use of fibre glass and resin to make gutters, roofing sheets and tanks.

At present I am employed as a trainer to train people to cook and bake. The groups I teach are:

* Caregivers who care for orphaned children.

* Educare cooks who are responsible for the cooking in crèches.

* A group of Caregivers who are baking to sell.

* Tholuthando our support group for people living with HIV/AIDS.

EDUCARE TRAINER

My name is Cathy Ferguson.  I am a quallified primary school teacher – with many years experience !

I started at Phakamisa in 2008. I am an Educare Trainer, training ladies who teach 3-6 years old children in rural creches. At each workshop they are given stories, games and puzzles to nake. These are taken back with them to be used a teaching aids. They are also taught how to make equipment out of anti-waste. The ladies are also given manuals, which contain all the stories and lessons that they need for a whole year. Many of these lessons are done during the workshops to help them understand how to teach children.  The duraitonn of this course is a year and the ladies attend one workshop every second week.

WANDERING TEACHER.

My name is Nomalanga and I was born 30th December 1975. I am married and have two children a boy and a girl.  I started to work at Phakamisa as a wandering teacher in 2006.

I was first working at Emmaus church and under the tree. In 2011 I moved to a new area – Cato Crest, in this area there are a lot of informal settlements, a lot of poverty. I am working outside and when it is sunny I move under a tree.

I enjoy working as a wandering teacher.

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