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March was a busy month at the Donald Wood Centre in Hobeni with a large group of Penn State University students conducting a Science Festival Day for local school learners and researchers looking into rehabilitation efforts in rural areas by Stellenbosch University postgraduate students.<\/p>\n

A large group of students from Penn State University returned to the Centre to prepare for Day of Science Festival on March 15 which was promoted on social media with the great help of our friends from The Marketing Heaven<\/a>. The groups spent a few days preparing for the day on which they held numerous activities and workshops for local learners themed around the concept of\u00a0adaption.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of primary and junior secondary school learners enjoyed activities and interactive workshops where they learnt about how animals such as the ostrich adapted to its natural environment and associated issues such as survival, environmental change and evolutionary processes \u2013 all aimed at highlighting the concept of adaption in science.<\/p>\n

The Foundation\u2019s CEO, Dillon Woods also addressed the students, giving them valuable insights on the challenges and successes of Foundation\u2019s work and undertaking rural development initiatives in one of the poorest areas of the Province.<\/p>\n

To the Donald Woods Foundation staff and team<\/em>
\n Thank you for sharing this incredible place with us, the Foundation\u2019s important work and purpose. We learned a lot during our stay about Xhosa culture and the Donald Woods Foundation felt like home. <\/em>
\n Penn State students<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The group were led by Dr Neil Brown of Penn State University and Research Associate, Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering and Development in Africa (AESEDA).<\/p>\n

For additional background on the initiative visit\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>. Watch videos made by students\u00a0Luba Hristova<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Connor Davis<\/a><\/p>\n

Two additional groupings also visited the centre during the same period. These included Dr Gubela Mji who heads up the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and the Centre for Rehabilitation Studies in the Medicine and Health Science Faculty at Stellenbosch University. Dr Mji is involved in various collaborative disability research projects and networks at both African and international levels for the realisation of the rights of people with disabilities. Some of her work involves issues of development of models of best practice for rehabilitation, transformation, development and indigenous knowledge systems. Dr Mji also supervises postgraduate students conducting research in the Mbashe area.<\/p>\n

In addition, Professor Steve Reid, Director of and Glaxo-Wellcome Chair of Primary Health Care at the University of Cape Town also visited the Centre to hold discussions with DWF CEO Dillon Woods on data being generated by the Foundations\u2019 flagship health programme, Health in Every Hut (HiEH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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