Lessons from Lavender Hill High
Publisher: South African National Libraries
Published: Oct 15, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780620866637
Description: The book tells the story of her 14 years (2000-2014) at the high school. This includes running the Youth Empowerment through School project, an initiative to change mindsets and encourage youth to “reach for rainbows”, managing the building of  a soccer field and a rugby field, the lessons learnt there, and the evidence of a deep undercurrent of social trauma in the persistently high drop-out rate. Orsmond, who has married to Guy for 60 years, said her grandchildren kept asking: “Gran, why launch a book at 83 years old?” “My answers were I felt driven, I believe so completely in social transformation through youth empowerment, and I am so anxious to get the new project, Lavender Hill Live in 6575, going “As Rotarians, we had worked with Lavender Hill High School to establish an adult literacy training centre there, and had got to know and trust former headmaster Faseeg Manie, and staff. Working at Lavender Hill High School was sometimes warm and wonderful and sometimes disheartening and discouraging,” she said. Motivated by youth empowerment as a gateway to social transformation, the mother of three and grandmother of nine, said a new normal was needed for children born into a sad world that was still burdened by apartheid damage.