The Internship

While completing our final semester in the Masters program at the UT School of Social Work, our roles at Botshabelo will be as Clinical Social Worker interns. There we will participate in therapeutic processes with children of all ages, as well as adults and families in the village that surrounds the orphanage. Though we are not quite sure what our days will look like...we are certain that our time in South Africa will be an incredible journey filled with joy, challenge, uncertainty, connection, learning, peace, laughter, sadness, and most importantly, growth.


About Botshabelo

The Cloete family started Botshabelo 20 years ago--out of the darkness of apartheid--where Con and Marian (the couple) spent their entire life's savings to care for the children of South Africa. Con and Marian, along with their three adult daughters, their partners, and their children, established Botshabelo as a place where about 150 children without families could have a place to belong. Ilene and Ayla will also call Botshabelo home for the next four months, living and working alongside these amazing individuals.
Since 1990, Botshabelo has worked to become a self-sustaining community and, more importantly, a place of safety and family to South Africa's AIDS orphans and economic orphans. The community includes an orphanage, school, village, medical clinic and organic farm.

To learn more about our new home, visit: www.botshabelo.org

Thursday, January 14, 2010

One full day left

so the goodbyes are done, and the never ending to-do list finished (aside from packing- see I told you its never done!). i have heard from a couple of people that the south africans they know are super blunt. if this is true of the whole country it is like i am being called to my mother land. if they also curse like sailors I might not come back. (i just remembered i need to convert my dollars to rand- another notch on the to-do list). (doh- and i need to call my brother (not a chore sean- i wuv u)). for my last day i hope to sleep in, do my ny times crossword- but its friday so if im lucky ill get a fourth of it done, watch a ton of crap tv, and spend as little time as possible packing. wish me luck to do as little as possible!
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  1. UnknownJanuary 14, 2010 at 9:08 PM

    Good luck, Ayla! I hope your travel there is safe and fun. And if you think you're going to want to stay in your "blunt motherland," don't worry. I will be sure to bluntly tell you to come the hell back!

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