Today is our last day in South Africa. I’m very sad to leave because I love it here! I’ve had such a great week. The Indlovu Project is an FDP (field directed practica) for my video journalism class. Each professor organizes several trips for their class and this one was to a township. A lady from Kenya named Di started the Indlovu Project to help the township. She has a guest house that we went to and it was very nice. It was kind of like a hostel/hotel and it was just a lot nicer than I had expected. We all sat down and she told us about the project and what she’s doing. She said that nearly 40% of the people in this township had AIDS. We got to interview her and then we played with the kids and interviewed other people in the township. Abiola, my partner for our class project, and I interviewed this one lady who invited us into her shack and she told us she was HIV positive. It was really sad. She had an 8 year old daughter who fortunately isn’t HIV positive but she didn’t even look old enough to be a mom. The shack had a double bed in it and a counter where they were preparing food. It was very tiny and there wasn’t much to it. We interviewed a couple other people and most of them seemed to be unemployed. At the end of the day, we compiled all of our footage together and we made a video for the children to watch in the community center that Di built. It was very inspiring because Di had so much hope for the township. She wants to make it an eco village and have tourists come stay. It was a great last day in Cape Town.
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