Hi again everyone! Week 7 was an extremely active week with lots of meetings and incredible opportunities.

We started off this week with a meeting with our videographer. We went to a cute coffee place in German Village and started brainstorming ideas for our annual filming day. This day, which will be occurring next week, usually consists of bringing in clients and asking for their stories as well as their experience at Netcare. We talked through what we wanted to do differently for these testimonials as well as filming shots of our building and facilities for our website. For the past few weeks, we have been working on our campaign that focuses on staff interviews. Our videographer even offered to film some of these interviews for us so we could get started on posting this content!

Another big meeting we had this week was our foundation board meeting. This was a very interesting meeting to sit in on as we talked through big events as well as our important updates and future goals. Unfortunately not many board members attended this week so we were not able to vote on important matters, but it was still a great experience to see how it was run!

I also had the opportunity to meet with more staff members this week including our director of community programs and the directors of forensics. These were such great opportunities to learn more about Netcare programs while also getting advice on this field. Through speaking with the directors from forensics, I learned that one of the hard parts of their jobs is not getting to see the progress people might make as they just have a small role to play in their lives. I realized that not getting to see a direct impact might be something that would also be hard for me and maybe this is not the path I necessarily want to go into. From speaking with the director of the community programs, I was able to almost shadow and see exactly what her day-to-day looks like. It was extremely fascinating to learn more about what she does and the impact all of these programs have on the community!

I spent my free time this week working on some tiny projects as well as starting on a new campaign that I hope to speak more about next time! Overall this week was an extremely fun and busy week with incredible learning experiences. 

Best,

Anaika