My name is Martina Jordaan and I am a lecturer at the University of Pretoria (South Africa).

I am responsible for the compulsory undergraduate course, Community-Based Project (JCP) at the Faculty Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. It entails that all undergraduate students have to work at least 40 hours in a community and thereafter reflect on their experiences. They also create a report in a form of a blog. Yearly more than 1500 students are registered for the module and there are usually about 400 to 500 projects. I have been responsible for this course the last six years. Even though I do blog on the Universities blog, I would like to share the experiences I had for the past six years.

I am alone responsible for the module and am the only one that is aware of all the wonderful things the students do in the communities. The feedback from the communities, the problems experienced the interesting and funny things that happen and the problems experienced when students work in the communities.