Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Profile: Sonja van der Vyver


Sonja van der Vyver works as Development Practitioner and Educational Facilitator on The Masakhane Project (see link in sidebar for more info). Sonja is passionate about education and will be entering her Master's studies in education at the University of Johannesburg next year.

Sonja has been involved in the Masakhane project since 2007 and has facilitated interventions such as the Facilitation of Community Coherence, Water Provision, Life Skills Training, the establishement of a creche at Masakhane, etc. Her duties include the following:


Resource Manager
Fund Raiser
Researcher
Public Liason Officer
Education Facilitator


Sonja enjoys coordinating the different aspects of the Masakhane Project, and loves the challenge of allocating and aligning the available resources from Corporate Donor-funders and other donors to the needs of the community and the Village Power team.

Sonja is married to a Nature Conservationist and has three of her children living with them on a farm in the Magaliesburg Mountains.

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