ENKOSI MAMA
Women’s Day 9 august 2006

“Igama Lamakhosikazi Malibongwe” this was the theme for the day. We met at Nkazimlo primary school where the march of the women’s day was going to start. Before we even went out for the day it was good to see the collaboaration between HOPE staff, OVC, Care and Support, and ABy and ABC and the MAP team worked very well together that day.

The purpose of the day was to visit female clients that we are working with and just appreciate them. We also had young people from the ABy Community Action teams helping us and the most amazing thing that these guys were doing was the reading of the poems to the clients just making their day and showing appreciation. The banners said it all in the messaging because we had messages like “thank God for our women” and that was to show how much we appreciate the women in our lives.

I’m still amazed by the work of some support group members who managed children and the flow of traffic. At the end of the day we manged to visit all the clients we planned to visit and the impact of the visits was felt because we all had one plan and that was to go out there and make a difference to our clients in need.

The 9th has passed now but I can still hear the song in my heart sayin’
“Igama Lamakhosikazi Malibongwe” which translate to “ the name of women should be praised” and that’s true because they gave life to us, that is why we say:

Enkosi Mama.

Eric Bafo 11 August 2006 Facilitator for HOPE worldwide Men as Partners Cape town