Our typical day

Usually we wake up at 6.20 a.m. The couple who's house we are living have two dogs and we start our day by taking the dogs for a run. After jogging and swimming in the pool we have breakfast which usually includes  fresh fruits like mangoes, papayas and pineapples, toasts, eggs, yogurt and coffee.

Then we have some work to do on the computer related to society's issues. About 9 a.m we leave by car to Dzivarasekwa which is 30 km from our house. Once a week we are attending to weekly meeting with local workers and other volunteers. Now there are three other Finnish volunteer who are also sharing the house with us. When we are concentrating on children's healthcare in the society they are more involved freetime activities like piano and extra maths lessons. In the weekly meeting each of us gives a report about things that have happened during the week, in English of course. After weekly meeting we go to the activity centre to see the children who usually come there before or after their schoolday. On this day we started to do "health cards" for children which includes height, weight, allergies, and information about their possible diseases. It's a big project because there is 400 orphans and they have no previous information anywhere about their health and the most of them don't even have birth certificates. It's very hard to interview the little ones because they don't understand English and because they are so young they can't tell us their medical history by themselves. 

After lunch at the center we were visiting this lady who sells and donates chickens, eggs and potatoes to children's of society. This day she wanted to donated twenty chickens to shelter where part of children are living. 

In the afternoon we helped the other Finnish volunteers to give maths extra lessons for primary children. Especially maths is the most difficult subject for kids because maths is taught in English rather than their mother language shona. About 4 p.m we heading back to home where we have usually some works to do like move the information about healthcards to the computer. So about 5 p.m our workday is over and rest of the evening we are spending time with other girls and just relaxing for example watching a movie or going to sauna ! :)