Critical awareness

10/1/2015

Two weeks and two sessions have passed. A bit to my own surprise, the group continues to grow. It seems like the word is getting out there in Khayelitsha. The participating mothers are bringing in their neighbours, church friends and even family members. I am grateful that these mothers are taking the time to join us and continue to participate. With a bigger group present, the discussions and conversations are getting more intense. The mothers are recognizing themselves in each other. This often leads to tearful, but warm and healing talks. In addition, a sense of understanding is gained by both the mothers and myself. A sense of what the main challenges are, what the struggles are, and what would be important to change. This is what action research is about. A process of so-called ‘conscientization’ in which the mothers are gaining critical awareness of their reality and are uncovering their problems and actual needs. By using creative methods such as ranking, drawing and a form of vignettes, we have engaged in talks on their hopes for the future, their biggest worries, their ideas on what disability is, and their notions of care. In the next coming sessions, we will discuss more about their needs, their children’s needs, their challenges and their vision for change. And lucky us, we got the infamous Vivian Zilo on board. She is the impassioned founder and director of Iliso Care Society[1] which runs 26 community projects in Khayelitsha. She has offered to be a mentor to this group of women in the next coming months. Last Saturday she gave an encouraging and though-provoking speech on empowerment. On how forming alliances, establishing support groups and growing one strong voice, can move mountains. Her speech resonated with many of the mothers, and felt like the proverbial first step to change. Soon more…

[1] http://ilisocare.org.za/

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10/3/2016 04:43:50 am

The Internet and social technologies depict the world for us. The amounts of information that we are faced with daily are so huge that our ability to critically distinguish between valuable bits and useless masses of information has become an essential ability: without this ability we would get hopelessly lost in the endless chaotic universe of information.

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3/4/2017 06:55:02 pm

This is great! Establishing support groups can be an inexpensive and effective way to offer assistance to people having different concerns. For our requirement in our school, we have to conduct an action research in an elementary school. We chose first grade teachers as our participants. Throughout the activity, each of them felt confidence in sharing their concerns like what teaching methods are the most effective. In the end, they produced 3 research memoranda.

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9/21/2017 05:33:07 am

I bet these two sessions were very successful. I hope I will be able to visit your next session and meet you there.

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1/22/2018 01:56:27 pm

It is heart touching feeling to read a blog like this. All the women have voluntarily participated in the talk. The use of technology and social media has its advantage in our society it will depend on the people on how he will use it. Sooner or later the use of technology will more improve leader should build different event or talks like this to prevent depression, not just in our country but for the whole world. Talks like this help other to be more than the old self, improve their way of living through this way their concerns will be heard in the society.

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1/22/2018 04:01:24 pm

Establishing support group which will help each member of the group on how to be a more effective mother. I like the concept of this group that they are consist of a mother which all mothers are gaining critical awareness of their reality and are uncovering their problems and actual needs by using a different method. Somehow these groups need support with their project and platforms to further grow and enhance their group. For our information, mothers are facing an everyday challenge in life, their needs, their children’s needs, their challenges and their vision for change. As mention here, these are just the problems that they and we need to pay attention to, they need strong support to achieve their goals. I strongly believe that if you build a strong alliance you can move a mountain. More power to your group!

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