Olivia Shaw
2021
Cape Town, South Africa
Creating a Lasting Impact on Youth in South Africa
Olivia Shaw (2021: Cape Town, South Africa) will work with Lawrence House, a registered residential Child and Youth Care Centre focusing on the care of unaccompanied foreign minors and refugee children in Cape Town. In her role she will provide consistent care, including creating a life-giving, safe space for youth to come to and feel supported, heard, and empowered.
Hi everyone! My name is Liv and I graduated in May, 2020 from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work.
During my senior capstone, I began studying more intently how a country’s culture can implicate their existing child welfare system and how they approach child work.
Come January, I’ll be moving to Cape Town, South Africa to work in a township called Woodstock. There, I’ll be working in a group home for immigrant and refugee children. I’m so excited to begin this work and find a deeper understanding of what day to day work will look like, and I hope that you will follow along with me as I process it!
More about me....
Home Town: Vero Beach, FL
Major(s): Social Work
My Stories
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My First Holiday in South Africa!
Hello from the United States! I write this post after safely arriving home in Nashville after a bittersweet departure from Cape Town. My
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Terminations, Transitions, and Transparency
As I transition into my final two weeks in Cape Town, I do so in a country that has entered back into Level
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Gratitude for Take Away, Please!
Gratitude for Take Away, Please! Even living in a city that makes life feel like vacation almost everyday, I am not immune
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On Duty Recreation
Hello from Cape Town! In my last post, I spoke about the helping professionals that come together to create what is referred to
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Welcome to Our Village
Welcome to Our Village What do we mean when we use the expression “It takes a village to raise a child” ? Within
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Off Duty Recreation
Off Duty Recreation Hello yet again from Cape Town! I’ve been enjoying the South African summer so much that I’ve collected pictures and
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Climate Control
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views
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Hamartia
Hamartia This week felt different than the last. I think I can attribute this to my continued adjustment to my environment. I’m beginning
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Transitions
14 Feb Transitions Happy Valentine’s Day! This Valentine’s Day was spent with new friends and filled with sunshine and warm weather. I spent
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Carrot Hole
Carrot Hole At the time I began writing this, it had been just one week since my arrival to Cape Town (22 Jan)-
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Twenty Four
16 January 2021 Twenty-Four The First Twenty-Four It has officially been twenty-four hours since the arrival to my new home in Cape Town.
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The Price of Reconciliation
| Click here to listen to a song I found myself listening to repeating while I processed and gathered my thoughts to produce
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Introducing Me
In the midst of a rapidly evolving world, fast paced with little room for empathy and grace if left behind, it has felt
