Mutasa and Mid term review

Following our first two successful ISAL training sessions and starting the research for our marketing reports, we decided to visit our friends in Mutasa. The DOMCCP team are working about 30km from Mutare in Mutasa at a boarding school called St Matthias. Mutasa is a beautiful area, surrounded by hills and we were made to feel very welcome.

It was great to see our friends and they gave us a tour of the school and where they were all staying. Once we had seen that they took us to their hang out spot, a place with a beautiful view called Edwardes, where a previous resident had built numerous towers, which gave a great view of the surrounding area. Once we had soaked up enough sunshine and beautiful views it was off to the Headmasters house for a Brai (or barbecue). A particular highlight was the little puppy who lived there, who was very adorable! It was so lovely to hang out, eat great food and have a bit of a boogie through the afternoon.

Once we were back from Mutasa it was straight back into a busy week running up to mid-term review. We managed to squeeze in two more ISAL sessions at Kentucky, and finalise our marketing reports all in the three days before mid-term review. We also spent some time working on our mid-term report and our presentation.

We arrived at St Josephs, where we had our orientation, on Wednesday evening, ready for 2 nights of catching up and having fun. Thursday morning was a really uplifting morning as each team presented their achievements for the first half of the placement and the challenges we had faced. We had plenty of achievements to talk about, our ISAL sessions, our marketing reports and our plans for the rest of the placement. We also had plenty of challenges to talk about due to us being the first ICS team working with Caritas, but we hope that we have managed to identify the best ways to deal with the challenges we are facing.