Week 3

A busy week of work for all the student interns! Site visits, a regional gathering for stakeholders, a youth jazz festival, and a ten-year celebration of the anniversary of the roll-out of antriretroviral drugs were some of the highlights of the week. Saturday took us to Genadendal, the oldest mission station in South Africa, which served as a refuge for the Khoi-San people of the Western Cape in the 1700s and 1800s. At one time, Genadendal was the second largest community in South Africa, and produced all of its own food and goods. Today it is still communally owned and farmed by the descendents of the Khoi-San. We toured the historic sites and the museum, and were treated to rural hospitality at a delicious lunch!