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The Melkbosstrand PrivateSchool will host a farmers’ mar-ket on November 6 from 09:00 to13:00. There will be pony rides and

visitors can feed and touch theanimals. Food and products willbe on sale. Entry is free. For de-tails call Rozelle on 078 804 4233.

Dreaming up a good jobLOUISASTEYL

A LOCAL organisation is givingthe unemployed the opportunityto dream.

Dream Worker, a non-profit re-cruitment organisation, was startedin 2008.

“Our motivation was to assistsemi-skilled workers to find work,”explains Tania Brownes, projectmanager for Dream Worker, “nothighly educated people with accessto the internet, who have fabulousCVs and so on, but people like driv-ers, gardeners, domestic workers,cashiers, painters, kitchen assist-ants and so on. Who looks afterthem?” she adds.

The department of social develop-ment agreed to fund the project to setup offices in the Cape Metropole andSomerset West areas.

Their main office is based in Ath-

lone, which Brownes says makes itaccessible to potential employeesand employers alike.

Dream Worker has developed acomprehensive programme wherethey screen all applicants carefullyand take in copies of IDs or permits,copies of school certificates, copies ofreference letters and CVs.

“Each person is given a one-on-oneinterview of about 20 to 30 minutes,determining not only their workbackground, but also exploring soft-er issues suchas their passions, theirdreams and how they see them-selves,” Brownes says.

“We also mentor them on how to‘sell themselves’ better, from CV im-provement to better body languagein interviews,” she adds.

Brownes urges employers to con-tact Dream Worker for their staffingneeds and adds that they do notcharge employers or employees anyfees.

Another way people can get in-volved is to sponsor someone for aday of work in their own communityat R100 per person.

“This sponsored community workis part of a project called Link ofLove,” Brownes says.

She explains that every R100voucher purchased goes towardssomeone working for a day. Theystarted in Gugulethu and have nowlaunched in Hanover Park. Peopleare working helping the elderly, thesick, cleaning the streets and plant-ing gardens.

Brownes says: “People do not wanthandouts. They want to work, to feelvaluable and valued and this is a wayof doing just that as well as servingthose in need such as the sick andelderly.”

To register with Dream Worker asan employee to employ from the or-ganisation, call 021 696 4048 or visitwww.dreamworker.org.

Sakeenah Blouws adver­tising the organisation.

Dakotas live to fight againYSTERPLAAT Air Force base recently cele-brated the 75th Anniversary of the Dakotawith an Aviator’s Evening.

The celebration of the Douglas Corpora-tion DC3 Dakota was hosted by 35 Squadronwith a cocktail function.

The Douglas DC-3 is an American fixed-wing, propeller-driven aircraft whose speedand range revolutionised air transport in the1930s and 1940s.

35 Squadron has a proud history spanningsix decades and the Dakotas have become al-most synonymous with the squadron.

After the Shackleton was withdrawn fromservice in 1984, piston engine C47 Dakotasfulfilled a somewhat depleted maritime role(they had no offensive capability).

In September 1994 these workhorses werefinally withdrawn and replaced with themodified turbine engine C47TP Dakota.

Although the Squadron can only assist theNavy in limited anti-submarine and anti-surface unit warfare, recent successes dur-

ing joint anti-submarine training exercises,where the crew was able to spot the “enemy”submarine’s periscope using only the air-craft radar and their eyes, are proof of theSquadron’s persistence in maritime excel-lence.

Since 1991 the Turbo Prop Dakota has beenthe workhorse of air transport operationsand will continue to do so in the foreseeablefuture. Piston-engined Dakotas performedmaritime operations up to 9 September 1994.

However, a project has been launched tomodify all Dakota aircraft to turbo prop sta-tus.

These “TP Daks” increase their cruisingspeed from 250 to 330km/h with their rangeextended from 2 500 to 4 000km together withan increased payload of 1 000kg.

The Squadron will ultimately be equippedwith 11 TP Dakotas. This will include trans-port, maritime, photo and electronic warfarevariants. There are fewer than 400 of theseplanes in limited use internationally.

Ysterplaat Air Force recently honoured the Dakota on its 75th anniversary. Photo: Justin de Reuck