Olivia Shaw
2021
Cape Town, South Africa
Creating a Lasting Impact on Youth in South Africa
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....
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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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
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Transitions
Bonswa zanmi’m yo! Good afternoon friends! While my time as a Lumos Traveler has past, I am still in Haiti working with Disciples’
