Gutsakisana

🧘‍♀️ Mindfulness and Meditation 🧘‍♂️

Teaching children outside the classroom setting is a lovely opportunity to explore a healthy mind and what we can do to relax! The children from Gutsakisana really enjoyed learning some yoga techniques and practicing the art of Tadasana meditation. They all left feeling ready for the day ahead!

🍉 From Fruit to Music! 🎶 Making Traditional Musical Instruments

On Monday 8th August, the wonderful Rahel led an innovative workshop for the Gutsakisana children.

Indigenous to South Africa, the monkey orange tree can grow up to around 9m high and produces large grapefruit-sized fruit that is an essential food source for the local communities. Once the seeds have been discarded and the fruit dried they are often used for carving or for the likes of our workshop!

Using the shell from the dried fruit, Rahel turned them into amazing flutes, drilling a hole for the sound to be created. The children loved designing their personalised flutes and then experiencing the most amazing sound as they blew into their new musical instrument!

Vanderful / Seeds of Hope ODV
Rahel Brunner

Exciting news!

We hope you are excited for our Vanderful / Gutsakisana parade through Tofo next Thursday!
Vanderful / Seeds of Hope ODV

Gutsakisana is back 🎭 🎪

The children of Tofo, Mozambique were very excited to be back for the first Gutsakisana session since 2019! We played circus activities such as the spinning plates and enjoyed creating the chant “Gutsakisana ngungunua guta takisa sanana” in the local language, Gitonga. This translates to “Gutsakisana ta a voltar vem fazer-nos felizes” in Portuguese and “Gutsakisana is back, coming to make us happy” in English!