DUMELANG BATSWANA!

"Wali-Nkt'okelezea"

Tofauti on the move welcomed our friendly southern African neighbors from Botswana to the movement in June this year for an overwhelming experience. Seeing that though we Africans, their culture shock was arguably witnessed more than even the Europeans. This shows that we as Africa still have a wide diverse range of cultures to learn from and fuse with and that every country is quite unique and special in themselves. 

The batman and robin of the tswana were Joy Mogami and Brian Moabi 'respectively'.  Their input to team tofauti was greatly seen as they reopened the National Spinal Cord Injury Hospital rehabilitation project where they dealt with the paraplegic. They fused in quite well seeing as they major in psychology.

Here’s a snippet of Brian's experience,

“I found out about Tofauti on the move organization through the Strathmore University. The internship was organized by AIESEC Kenya Strathmore University Local Chapter. We began work on the 20^th June at the Vijito School. Since we had initially shown interest in doing Psychology/Counseling related work, we worked at the school while we searched for our preferred choice of work. We taught at the school for only a week after which we left to start work at the National Spinal Injury Hospital in Kilimani. Work there was more challenging than we had anticipated but nonetheless enlightening. We did work at the hospital for the last three weeks of our stay in Nairobi. Although this was a short time in comparison to the 6 weeks that we anticipated we would do, it is however still appreciated by the patients who we worked with. The hospital has also been grateful for the work we did. As counseling requires a lot of time to fully build what is known as rapport with a client we decided to work with a few of the patients as this would allow us more time with them. This worked to our advantage since we did manage to build stronger relationships with the clients who we worked with. 

Tofauti on the move, as a non -organization is doing a great job in sensitizing and effecting change in the communities around Nairobi. The planning and successful execution of the International Psychosocial Resettlement Symposium is a testimony to this fact. The symposium remains the highlight of my internship with the organization. I learned a lot from the conference and remain humbled by the experience. The diversity of the delegation at the conference also provided a broader scope of the topics and the angles with which they were covered. A strong tool that Tofauti has, is the diversity of the interns who it accommodates. This provides not only different opinions but also different solutions and a broader outreach to the world. As a result, Tofauti has a worldwide network of former interns who I believe carry the Tofauti lessons with them throughout..."