My experience on working with the farmers

                        
My experience on working with the farmers

My involvement on working with the farmers was enthusiastic and was I was looking forward to what was going to happen? Yes I was, since this was my first time on getting ma hands dirty but I was also interested on the knowledge I was getting and being taught. Farming might sound easier to some people and I was one of those people, from growing crops, watering, protecting them from freeze damage, heart damage and how to keep animals away from damaging the plants. Not all of this is easy a lot of effort is put in.

The name of the farmer I was working with was Mme Mathabo who was working with other grannies, she is a committed, hardworking women who plants and produces vegetables and herbs. I was supposed to do this procedure and accomplish it as an assignment called Food Security. The whole idea was for me and my group members to have a specific farmer and focus on helping her to create a good communication between the famer and its public. We were put in a test to create different communication tools, such as posters, flyers, printed pictures and social media networks to address and for people to be aware of mme Mathabo. Theses might have been a small farm but we were determined in reaching our goal at Soweto in Tladi where the farm situated.

30th march assisting the grannies in cleaning the farm.

As a group we reached out to nearby markets and street venders, our intention was to advertise to get more buyers for mme Mathabo. What I have uncounted made me to notice that farming in most cases doesn’t make money or profit, I got to perceive  how the grannies and mme Mathabo were coping in terms of having customers and also how having the enough materials for farming was an issue. The best exprince I had to undergo with the grannies and my group was on the 30^th of March when we went to the farm to assist the ladies on cleaning and reaching out to the young community members of Tladi for them to help and support the grannies. During my work experience I have observed that where the grannies were farming occurred theft, these were individuals who were addicted to drugs called Nyaope, they came to the municipality premises and buildings to violet the place. During ma encounter I had learn and got to plant vegetables seeds such as spinach, carrots, cabbage, onions, beetroot and herbs and the most selling veggie was spinach.

During this process I was responsible on things like being entrusted for communication. I was supposed to speak and message with the leader of the universal church youth about the specific dates were the youth will be available to come to the farm and assist the ladies. As a group we reached Jozi@work as potential a stakeholder that usually plays a big part in communities, Cash-build to sponsor us and provide the farmers with enough materials they need to plant. I have gained various experience in terms of farming business and the challenges that occurred when raising plants.

Youth Unemployment

                                             YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT 

Youth unemployment is addressed and referred to the rate of newly beginners who are unemployed or seeking for jobs. It’s also one of the biggest issues generation youngsters are faced with from the age of 18 to 28. In most cases the reasons of the employment are lack of qualification, most young people don’t get to finish school or complete their courses which in the professional world are seeking. We know that in order to qualify for a job you have to have a qualification suitable for the position, it might be being involved in an activity but in overall the must be a record showing that you have finished your training or course which is an effort young individuals fail to do. Secondly youth unemployment might be the results of certain areas, meaning usually homeless or in rural areas young generation cant access the right materials to study or get enough skills for jobs whereas in urban areas  there are big opportunities to study and finish courses.

Now me and my group members where given a task in creating a campaign intended on achieving a specific goal which is creating a solution for youth unemployment. Our idea was to have a campaign that will recruit young people, we focused mostly in Alexandra. In terms of writing we composed flyers and posters, our purposes was to communicate with the youth and get to collaborate and persuade them and how this has improved my PR skills? 

Alexandra township

I got to learn on how important writing the right message in order to share information and maintain relationships. One of the tools was media engagement, for us to communicate properly with the youth, we suggested on media engagement. We got to create a social network such as Facebook in order to engage with the youth that meant we had to be always active to get followers but the most important part was to convey our message and the purpose of our campaign and also to rise up the issue of youth unemployment

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In terms of relationships management our campaign had approach the youth, we had to organize the day, place and the materials we needed. The interaction with our stakeholders involved using social media by also maintains our promises. Developing a campaign was the most challenging part, we had to come up with the plan of a campaign and how we were going to implement market and have the right message for the campaign. We managed to design a campaign that recruits youth to work on events or volunteer and get paid. In terms of strategy our plan for us to achieve was to get sponsorship and get companies that will recruit the youth for them to get the experience and skills.

Turning point of Ebola

                                                    
                                                    THE EBOLA CRISIS

Ebola is one of the five known viruses within the genus ebolavirus an infection capable of coursing death and a fatal disease clearly noticed by fever and sever internal bleeding spread through face to face contact with infected body fluids by filo-virus (Ebola virus)  whose normal host species is unknown. the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976, named after the Ebola river in zaire. the first breakdown of Ebola infected over 284 people with mortality rate of 53%.  The second Ebola virus emerged from yambuku Zaire known as Eboz which had the highest mortality rate of any Ebola viruses (88%) infected 318 people.
   
 earlier symptoms of Ebola  

• fever and headache
• abnormal pain
• muscle pain
• weakness

Ebola Rate (http://goo.gl/RuQaIV)

later symptoms of Ebola

• bleeding from the nose and mouth( the stage is called hemorrhagic syndrome)
•  rush
• vomiting and having a running stomach 

The Ebola virus effects the human body  by attacking every organ in the body and tissue besides except for the bones and skeletons. It effects the human body in various ways like coming in contact with the person infected by easily inhaling or touching. But now the question is how would you know that if your in contact with someone who has the virus? especially if the person is still at the early stages of EVD.

Idris Elba (http://goo.gl/sbdrfw)

In order for people to prevent themselves from getting the Ebola, its necessary to visit the nearest clinics gather more information about Ebola, know the symptoms and participate on the Ebola campaigns  Idris Elba known as British actor created  Ebola public awareness which is an international campaign  and teamed up with football soccer players to raise awareness of the deadly virus.One of the campaign's aim is to help reduce the virus, teach people about EVD and to broadcast the information in different languages including local languages. The campaign has a site that is available for everyone to help raise the donations and help those who are already infected.The campaign uses social media to spread the word around the world about the disease by funding and help those who are in need, donating  and supply protective equipments and share the preventions as well as the guidelines of the Ebola virus.

#Divert bucket challenge

                                            

The ice bucket challenge is a campaign that's created for ALS awareness, a disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. the challenge entails when a person is being proposed to douse his/herself with a bucket full of ice water, which is something that is a bit foolish and dangerous to do, your then suppose to take video post it on social media or rather don't accept  the proposal but be part of charity by donating to the ALS awareness. Now the tense and exciting part about the contest is not only does it help to raise and contribute to the charity but people tend to enjoy and make it amusing by being creative to use social media to persuade each other, using also water full of ice for all types of communities and individuals to participate in the challenge. South Africa is now one of the countries  that is intrigued that they now have joined the challenge. The  big question is why?

The bucket challenge
http://goo.gl/NwUJHg

The purpose of having the challenge in South Africa was that not all South Africans know about ALS neither did I. An  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a disorder also recognised as motor neurone diseases in South Africa . Both ALS and MND produce effects that resembles the symptoms such as difficulty in speaking, muscle spams, difficulty in swallowing , breathing and stiffness in movement that eventually the person is paralysed.  It is unfortunate that not all of the South Africans know about the disease. Now the campaign's idea of using social media and sites to tag peoples by using the #ALS ice bucket challenge is a way to keep the updates of the changing world so that by learning about the disease effectively can help the public to identify and have enough knowledge about ALS

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katlego maboe http://goo.gl/LQ1auD

Van Der Westhuizen whose also better known as a   South African rugby springbok player was diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease in 2011 who also took part on the ice bucket challenge. Now south African celebrities such as Boity, Gareth cliff and a top billing presenter Jeannie D and Katlego maboe from the espresso morning show who accepted the nomination and fund raise for the charity to support the people who are effected by the disease in SA

The importance of using the social media is that viewing the disease can provide interest about the importance of knowing about ALS awareness but also people can communicate, share information by using social platforms such as television, radio, videos and social sites such as twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogging for the public to have discussions. As well as the proposal of media can provide skill, information and facts through the right projects and better understanding of ALS disease.