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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

PUSH BRINGS FESTIVAL TO ELDORADO PARK

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South African Spring season Brought us PUSH COMMUNITY FESTIVAL

After all the celebrations that took place on heritage day I spoke to Mpho and Mashudu of PUSH festivals, as I wanted to get to know the push behind such a beautiful initiative that took place in the township of Eldorado park I found out that this amazing team came up with a fun day in a way to try address all the societal issues that the community of Eldorado park faces. PUSH festival happened to bring happiness to the community to motivate positivity within the community. Mashudu answered all the questions that we had about their initiative below;

• WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND THE PUSH SPRING DAY CARNIVAL?

The PUSH Spring Day Carnival was founded last year 2021 with the aim of bringing change within the Eldorado Park community (children) through addressing societal issues that affect the community and merging it fun activities.

The Eldorado Park community is commonly associated with all the negative things, like substance abuse and gangsterism amongst others so hosting the carnival was motivated by all the social ills we are facing and we as PUSH wanted to spread cheerfulness, happiness and positive energy in the community and just give people a different energy that will motivate our children (the youth) and everyone else within the community. The Carnival really has brought out the “inner child” from everyone and to make community aware that we still haveto allow children to be children. #Children’sLivesMatter.

• SHOULD WE EXPECT MORE OF IT YEARLY?

YES! When the Spring Carnival started last year (2021) it was with the aim of hosting a successful event for that year, not thinking even of what impact the 1st carnival will have on our community members, so we then decided on hosting it annually so definitely there is going to be more PUSH Spring Day Carnivals.

• DO YOU HAVE PARTNERS YOU WORKED WITH ON THIS EVENT?

Yes, on the 1st event we worked on it on our own (staff and caregivers). The vision came from our manager Lorna Fisher. The 2nd PUSH Spring Day Carnival was when we had other stakeholders on board, and they really helped in making the event a success.

Our Wish as PUSH is to own this project and it should be anannual event that children look forward to. The carnival came with a lot of challenges which helped us learn, especially because we want to go bigger annually, and it will depend on the resources (monetary resources). We as PUSH would appreciate new partnerships in future.