This weekend I visited the township of Kayamandi on the outskirts of the university town of Stellenbosch in the wine country outside of Cape Town. I joined an environmental education program and told stories to 40 children – a smaller gathering than the 300 children at the Reading Club at Philippi township last Saturday. The young woman who translated into Xhosa was fantastic. After the program I got tacked onto a house-to-house survey checking on enrolments for the Playgroup and also asking Pet owners about having their dogs spayed! I felt fairly extraneous to the process as I accompanied one of the local teachers, but it was an education for me.