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03138aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 FCF7A14C5F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 210319s2020 sa a b 000 0deng d 020 $a 0620866632 020 $a 9780620866637 035 $a (OCoLC)1242420834 040 $a Z@L $b eng $e rda $c Z@L $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d STF $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a LA2388.S62 $b O77 2020 082 04 $a 306.0968 $2 23 100 1 $a Orsmond, June. 245 10 $a Lessons from Lavender Hill High / $c June Orsmond. 264 1 $a [Cape Town, South Africa] : $b New Adventure Publishing, $c [2020] 300 $a ix, 259 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a The book tells the story of her 14 years (2000-2014) at the high school. This includes running the Youth Empowerment through School project, an initiative to change mindsets and encourage youth to "reach for rainbows", managing the building of a soccer field and a rugby field, the lessons learnt there, and the evidence of a deep undercurrent of social trauma in the persistently high drop-out rate. Orsmond, who has married to Guy for 60 years, said her grandchildren kept asking: "Gran, why launch a book at 83 years old?" "My answers were I felt driven, I believe so completely in social transformation through youth empowerment, and I am so anxious to get the new project, Lavender Hill Live in 6575, going "As Rotarians, we had worked with Lavender Hill High School to establish an adult literacy training centre there, and had got to know and trust former headmaster Faseeg Manie, and staff. Working at Lavender Hill High School was sometimes warm and wonderful and sometimes disheartening and discouraging," she said. Motivated by youth empowerment as a gateway to social transformation, the mother of three and grandmother of nine, said a new normal was needed for children born into a sad world that was still burdened by apartheid damage. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 600 10 $a Orsmond, June $v Biography. 630 00 $a Lavender Hill (Cape Town, South Africa) 650 0 $a Apartheid $x Law and legislation $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Colored people (South Africa) $x History. 650 0 $a Youth development $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Education $z South Africa. 650 7 $a Apartheid $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00811117 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a Colored people (South Africa) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868707 650 7 $a Education. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902499 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Youth development. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01183602 651 0 $a Cape Town (South Africa) $x Civilization. 651 0 $a South Africa $x History. $x History. 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 651 7 $a South Africa $z Cape Town. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204844 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FCF7A14C5F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search