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Cape Town NGO Workshop (Cape Town, South Africa) — 2006
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Albert (Mafhungo) Musiye
Mafhungo Albert Musiye was born in Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa and raised in Venda. He is presently employed by NOAH (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) as an Ark Manager in Freedom Park Informal Settlement. As Ark Manager, Albert oversees the care of 390 orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), ages 0-18. He counts leadership and financial ability amongst his skills. Albert believes that the media and video production skills that he is learning at Barefoot Workshops will benefit both his center and NOAH in general, and he plans to share these new skills with his colleagues.
Brooke Bassin
Brooke Bassin presently serves as the Executive Director of Barefoot Workshops, a non-profit music and media based educational organization founded by documentary filmmaker Chandler Griffin. Current Barefoot ventures include A River Blue project in Alepdong IDP camp in Lira, Uganda, and an NGO training workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, for which Barefoot has received a State Department endorsement as part of the USG Digital Freedom Initiative.
Prior to working with Barefoot Workshops, Brooke served as a Co-Chair of the Fundraising Committee for FXB’s Six Villages campaign. She is a Trustee of the Kaufman Center and a member of the Participating Board of Merkin Concert Hall. Brooke is a writer with over a decade of experience in non-profit management and administration. Her areas of interest include models of poverty alleviation, transitional justice issues, public health and HIV/AIDS advocacy, and ICT initiatives.
Brooke is delighted to be participating as a student in the Cape Town NGO Training Workshop, an endeavor that has deepened her understanding of Barefoot’s mission and strengthened her commitment to furthering its goals.
Kate (Peggy) Radebe
Kate (Peggy) Radebe is an Ark Manager for NOAH (Nurturing AIDS Orphans for Humanity) in Johannesburg, South Africa. She oversees a center that presently provides care for 258 orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) and personally provides counseling to all those children in her care. Kate appears regularly in True Love magazine, a publication that sponsors her work at NOAH. Kate is deeply committed to providing a strong foundation of self-esteem to young people and envisions the creation of a call-center that will provide wider access to counseling for youth in her community. She believes in the power of video to better document and ultimately improve the quality of life for those she serves.
Lungani Mdingi
Lungani Harrison Mdingi is twenty-one years old and was born in Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa. Lungani works as a volunteer (Peer Helper) for Youth AIDS, an organization that is based in Cape Town and is part of SFH (Society for Family Health) in Johannesburg.
In his role as Peer Helper, Lungani educates the community about HIV/AIDS, giving talks in schools and clinics. He enjoys the challenge of communicating to others what he has learned and experienced. Lungani looks forward to sharing what he has learned at Barefoot Workshops with his colleagues at Youth AIDS and to making films that demonstrate the difference that he and his fellow volunteers are making in the community.
Valentina Canavesio
Valentina Canavesio holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California and is currently getting her masters degree in International Affairs from Sciences-Po University in Paris. She has been spending the past few years volunteering around the world from India to South Africa and acquiring various work experiences from news production to non-profit work in various organizations such as Relief International, WITNESS and Amnesty International.
She also recently completed an internship serving at the United Nations Headquarters in New York where she worked at the Iraq Desk of the Safety and Security Department. Valentina is using the skills she acquired at Barefoot Workshops to combine her passions and use video to shed light on various social issues around the world.