{"id":319,"date":"2014-06-26T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2024-03-28T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:57:05","slug":"heart-to-heart-at-bophelong-special-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/heart-to-heart-at-bophelong-special-school\/","title":{"rendered":"heart-to-heart at Bophelong special school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next to our day-job working on the iNeSI project we also reach out to the local community. Yesterday we visited the Bophelong special school, a school for children with special needs. Verbal communication was difficult since we do not speak their language and some of them cannot easily speak. However, there are other ways to make contact and we had a good time by playing games. Aruna learned them <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namaste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Namaste<\/a> and we helped them color the map of the world, showing where we are all from. As the principal of the school remarked: &#8216;love and kindness are never wasted&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photoSpecialSchool.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-331 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photoSpecialSchool-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photoSpecialSchool-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photoSpecialSchool-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/186.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-328 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/186-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"186\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/186-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/186-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/196.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-327 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/196-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"196\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/196-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/196-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/195.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-326 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/195-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"195\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/195-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/195-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-323 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/178-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"178\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/178-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/178-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/160.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-322 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/160-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"160\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/160-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/160-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; 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Yesterday we visited the Bophelong special school, a school for children with special needs. Verbal communication was difficult since we do not speak their language and some of them cannot easily speak. 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