AFRICA UNITE · MY RECOMMENDATIONS • Make sure to always have an intern who has communication...
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AFRICA
UNITE
My Africa Unite
Experience
Fatimata Kane
April 2017 – June 2017
ABOUT ME
WHY AFRICA UNITE
• Panafrican mindset
• Values
• Wanted to work with an NGO
• A friend told me about Africa Unite
EXPECTATIONS AND SURPRISES
EXPECTATIONS
• More segregation
• Improve my english skills
• Diving into the South African Culture
• More violence and danger
SURPRISES
• Colored community
• Very smart and creative children (school clubs)
• Involvement of the Youth
• landscapes
MY INVOLVEMENTEVENTS
Freedom Day in Gugulethu
Talent Show Mandela High
Workshop in the Western Cape Parliament
Clean Up Day in Hermanus
Africa Day
-Dinner organised by the University of Connecticut-Dialogue with the Deputy Minister of Police-Human rights training-Canvassing in site C-Roundtable Migrants and Social Housing-Workshop on GBV
• Assessment of Africa Unite Communication Strategy• Development of a new communication strategy• Community management (Facebook, Twitter)• Reports and blog articles:
- What does 23 years of Freedom mean to you- Crime in South Africa : Youth and the Deputy Minister of Police in Dialogue- Peer educators workshop in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament: Understanding the constitution to better
serve our communities- GBV Kraiifontein- Pan-African Workshop on Human Rights: joining forces to implement solutions on the continental scale
• Designing documents (Africa Day, World Refugee Day, Kenya Exchange programme, Simunye High Fun Day)• Monday meetings reports• Social media awareness campaign
• School clubs• Translation: Symbiose Annual Report
COMMUNICATION
OTHERS
WHAT I LEARNED / CHALLENGESWHAT I LEARNED
• The financial side of project management
• Work smart
• Relying on a network realy matters
• Working full time for an NGO
• New socio-cultural reality
• Colored accent
• Everything is relative
CHALLENGES
• Being informed of other team membersprojects
• Time management
• Harassement in the street
MY RECOMMENDATIONS• Make sure to always have an intern who has communication skills for the communication strategy
• Introduce properly the Africa Unite team to enable the new interns to know who is responsible of what
• Give a project management training to new interns
• Have a checklist for each event to know which team members are taking part (usefull for the combi)
• Team building events
THANK YOU
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I LOVE YOU