Friday Flik
FRIDAY FLIK
For most of us, a trip to the local mall enables us to watch the latest movie on circuit. We regularly take a trip to the DVD store, then settle down in front of our TV sets to watch DVD’s while tucking into a packet of chips, popcorn or a number of other comfort foods. For others, most have never been to a movie house or seen a movie.
Due to the lack of infrastructure and ready cash in rural and urban areas, many children turn to crime and unsavoury ways of passing the time over a weekend. Parents and children do not usually spend quality time together for various reasons, some financial and some cultural.
Touch Africa is already starting to effect positive change through the Friday Flik project which launched at the end of August 2008 at the Walmer High School in Port Elizabeth. The project provides the following: :
• cost effective entertainment
• engaging the youth in positive activity
• exposing youth to artistic culture
• provides a means by which the community can fundraise for projects
• brings children and their parents together in a meaningful activity
Touch Africa provides the projector, screen, DVD player, sound equipment and the movies. The community who receives the Friday Flik, charge a fee to be determined by the community committee. The monies raised are then utilized to effect projects in the area.
The first project at the Walmer High School has already reaped the rewards. The school has been able to upgrade their school hall, which has enabled them to hire out the facility for weddings, conferences and music festivals. This in turn has enabled them to plough the returns back into the school maintenance budget. .
If you are interested in providing a community with a “Friday Flik” project, please contact elise@touchafrica.info