Dr. Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Senior Lecturer/Coordinator
Community service
Community Service
I am the IDE representative to the Centre for Community Service of the University of Swaziland. We regularly donate clothes and other items to underprivileged communities in our area, Kwaluseni.
Elected PTA member of Bahai Primary and Sitsembiso High Schools, Mbabane 24 February 2005- end of 2006; PTA Secretary between March 2005 and February 2006.
I have taught French language courses for the Alliance Française du Swaziland for several years; these are evening courses offered at different levels (from beginners over intermediate to advanced).
As a family, we are financially and emotionally looking after three orphans since March 2007.
2008 Bilingual secretarial work during the 43rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, held in Ezulwini, Swaziland between 7 and 22 May 2008
2002-now Mbabane Library Association: member
2009 Occasional reader/editor of articles for French Studies in Southern Africa, the Journal of Literary Studies (University of South Africa) and Auto/Fiction (Journal published in India).
Editing work
Various language and content editing assignments for Ministries, ILO, Empowered Intellectuals, etc.
Language editing for A Simplified Guide to the Co-Operative Development Policy for the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade, Swaziland, August 2011.
Language and content editing of The sustainability of benefits of retirement funds 2011 – Survey plan and Are the Benefits of Retirement Funds in Swaziland Sustainable?, August 2011.
Language editing of Lusweti Booklets, Alcohol and HIV, TB and HIV, August 2011
Language editing of Report on Regional and National Dialogues on Violence in and around schools (Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNICEF, October 2011
Language editing of Ph.D theses of colleagues