"Welcome, sweetie!"
Hi there! I'm happy to create this blog about my personal experience as a Finnish woman starting now my two months working experience in Cape Town, South Africa. I will be volunteering for two different local actors, which are organizing activity in the neighbourhoods for the local communities. First one, Africa Jam Youth Outreach has a focus on local youth by lifeskill education and different activities. I will be joining on youth work in three townships: Lotus River, Khayelitsha and Ottery. Second organisation, Juma Art Tours is maintaining cultural activities for the local communities through street art in Woodstock, Salt River and Khayelitsha. At the same time I will be collecting data for my master thesis of Urban Studies. My thesis topic is about the geographies of encounter , how people live together in diverse cities and encounter "strangers" and difference. I will do some interviews as well as mental mapping, which is an efficient tool for the studies of...