THE DAY OF THE EVENT

 On the 13 September it was the last day of 1^st year journalism class with the Lujiza pupils. They were launching a book which had the stories that the Lujiza pupils wrote while they were still visiting them. It was a beautiful day but a sad day at the same time because it was the last time they were engaging with Lujiza as the project they were doing with them came to an end. Also they were celebrating the 2^nd birthday of Eastern Cape For Africa foundation which was started last year. They were also celebrating the fact that ECFAF gave them the opportunity to do this project. The journalism class gave the Lujiza pupils certificates of acknowledgement in participating in the programme. Their teachers were also there to witness the work that their pupils have been doing for the past 4 weeks that the journalism class students were working with them to build those stories. Seeing the book they were launching was so overwhelming for them as they remembered how hard those pupils were working towards trying to come up with the beautiful stories that they came up with. They were very eager to write their own stories. The journalism class was so proud when they read the stories that was wrote by the pupils because they knew that they contributed in the pupils having to write such interesting stories. The journalism class taught the Lujiza pupils some of the things they now know about writing and they were able to apply them on their writings. It felt good to know that they have passed those pupils a skill in writing that was given to them by their lecturer and they are certain that some of those children will not abandon the skill but will grow with it to become professional writers one day.

                                                          

                                                     

CERTIFICATES FOR THE INVOLVED LUJIZA PUPILS

During the school holidays on Wednesday the 11^th of September, the first year journalism class was preparing for the event which would take place on 13 September 2019 on a Friday. They started by   finalising the programme for the day of the event. The programme was already made it just needed a few touch-ups and look professional, and it was great. The journalism class then proceeded in making the certificates for the children who participated in the project. It was a lot of work and tiring for them. They enjoyed the making of certificates part because they thought of those children who participated and made it easy for the journalism class to work with them. The certificates will mean a lot to the children as to they are appreciated and their hard work is noticed. The journalism class believes that the Grade they were working with have a lot of work to do but they chose to add that with the writing of the stories. They think that when they show their appreciation to the children, even if the group of next year would choose to work with them again they would not hesitate to involve themselves. They then proceeded to making the book that they would be launching on that Friday. All the stories and poems that they were doing with the children in the past few weeks were compiled together to form a book. The journalism class then took the stories, made a table of content and edited the ones that needed editing. They then did the cover part which they had to decide on the title of the book. They wanted a title that could match with the project they are doing. So they titled the book `Stories of Duncan`, they thought at least by looking at the cover then people would know what to expect inside the book.