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My adventure in South-Africa
Nienke Aarts August 2016 – January 2017
A little bit about me
Nienke Aarts
- 21 years old
- Live in Venhorst & Maastricht
- People and Business Management
- Sorority Missdaad
- Soccer
South-Africa Nienke Aarts August 2016 January 2017 A little bit - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
South-Africa Nienke Aarts August 2016 January 2017 A little bit - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
My adventure in South-Africa Nienke Aarts August 2016 January 2017 A little bit about me Nienke Aarts 21 years old Live in Venhorst & Maastricht People and Business Management Sorority Missdaad Soccer Why Africa
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Why Africa Unite & South-Africa?
Africa Unite
- Anne-Marie thought I would fit
into AU
- Hardworking en passionate people
- Work with all kinds of different
people
- Active in a different context
South-Africa
- Weather
- Improve English
- Culture & differences
- Beauty of the country
- A lot of students from my school
came here before me
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Work at Africa Unite
Main projects
- Heritage day event
- Leave no-one behind
- Red Carpet Award
Show Involved with
- Business Skills Sharing
- Human Rights
Workshop
- Robben Island
- Singamakhalipha
fundraising event
- Womans day event
- Meetings
Other projects
- Delft
- Finance
- School Clubs
Attempts
- Water en Sanitation
Project in Europe
- African Song
- Teambuilding hike
- Spaza Shop Summit
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Things I’ve done and things I’ve seen in South-Africa
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What I’ve learned
- Work SMART, not hard!
- You must work with passion
- Life in townships is rough
- Creatively planning my way around
problems.
- Everything goes, one way or an other
- Be patient and grateful
- How to work in a diverse environment
- How to count money and give change
when you are in a taxibus
- All about challenges in South Africa that
still are an everyday reality
- Report writing skills in English
- How to not get killed while crossing the
streets
- Do not ask random
questions
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Challenges I faced
- Names with strange consonants in succession
- Working with short deadlines
- Tea with milk
- Remembering Shona words
- African Time & people not showing up
- Bad WIFI
- Difference between: taxi - cab - taxibus
- Eating chicken feet and bones
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Recommendations
- Make a database & keep it up to date
- Have a more open communication & more transparent agenda
- Urgent emails read receipt
- Evaluate events and work with the feedback to prevent repeating mistakes
- Smarter marketing
- Clean the Kombi
- Keep up the good work with:
- Cleaning schedule
- 3 months plan each quarter, not only in the beginning of the year
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Thank you!
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Bonus
What I would do about inequality?
- Education is key
- Let foreign teachers teach
- No more segregation
- Improve social cohesion by opening a hundred more AU offices!