Project Information
 |
The completion ceremony. Tristina is
pictured on right.
|
The MSU student, Tristina
(pictured on the front, right in the picture from a completion ceremony),
set up the playground project after volunteering at Zwelihle in South
Africa. As an
anthropology student, she was interested in people and culture in South
Africa. Her experience in Zwelihle lead her to work for black children who
did not have a playground. The following is the process of her project,
which lasted
nearly two years.
 |
December
2001-January 2002:
Volunteer at the Zwelihle Summer School in Zwelihle, South Africa.
April
2002:
Project design and proposal writing.
June
2002:
Project
Proposal mailed to family, friends, coworkers, and teachers to generate interest.
June
and July 2002:
First Book Sales at home in North Mankato.
August
2002:
Mankato Free Press Article published on 8/16.
Large response from public wishing to donate used books.
Book sale at Pride Fest on 8/24.
September
2002:
Radio interview with Z99 on 9/6.
Book sale at Rock Bend Folk Festival on 9/7.
Scrapbook creation with Jan Willaert's second grade class and
St. Peter and Paul's Catholic School in Mankato, MN.
October
2002:
Book sale at History Fest on 10/11 and 10/12.
Book sale at home in North Mankato.
November
2002:
Book sale at home in North Mankato.
Website Construction.
Donation to the MSU Women's Center Women's Prison Book Project.
April
2003:
Scrapbook completed with Jan Willaert's second grade class
at St. Peter and Paul's Catholic School in Mankato, MN.
June
6-7, 2003
Book
Sale at the 3rd Annual Gathering of the Earth Tribe outside of New
Ulm, MN.
August
23, 2003
Book Sale at Pridefest
in Mankato, MN.
September
6-7, 2003
Book
Sale at Rock Bend Folk Festival in Saint Peter, MN.
November 23, 2003
Playground at Lukhanyo Primary School in Zwelihle has been
completed.
|
|
