Retirees and Giving by James Mkhulu (discussions with a Gogo)
1. Why did I decide to give back to society?
I’m not skilled in what I am teaching the children I’m not an educator but I can do understand the basics of the following, simple arithmetic – Subtraction, Division, Multiplication and Addition.
I’m a retired Operations Manager, “industrial chemistry” mainly in formulating, and developing and manufacturing plastics
This is my free time contribution to my church – Northfield Methodist Church Benoni
2. What am I doing to give back?
| I interact with grade 3 ( three’s ) once a week, only 9 ( nine ) students for about 1 ( one ) hour. |
| We start our day by eating a fresh fruit and discussing what it is. |
| How and where it grows. |
| And how good it is for our health. |
| Then we start by doing only one task in mathematics “it’s the children’s choice” – What they prefer doing. |
| Once the one on one mathematics exercise is done, we end the day by drawing “sketch” anything of the children’s choose |
| Once a month I also donate fresh vegetables to the school kitchen I make the children help me take it to the kitchen and we have a chat to the chef’s. This teaches the children to always give – “they enjoy this interaction” |