My Host Club

The Cape Town Rotary Club reminds me so much of my sponsoring club in Austin. The meetings usually have between 40 and 60 members attend. Everyone has a keen sense of humor and have service projects as a huge part of each of their lives. My club works very closely with Mvula School in Nyanga (a township just outside of Cape Town). Mvula, which means "rain" in Xhosa, is an indepenent school that includes an AIDS Education Center, and it's most recent project - a nutrition center that teaches children and community members about nutrition as well as cooking and baking skills. I am so looking forward to visiting the school next week and finding a way to become involved in such a moving project. I've attached a picture of the first Rotary meeting in Cape Town - The picture includes: Trevor Wilkins, the guardian angel to all Ambassadorial Scholars in South Africa; Steven Boers, my host dad, architect and serious cycler; and Haley Fletcher, another Ambassadorial Scholar now studying at Rhodes University a mere 10 hour drive away in South Africa.