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August Blog: One Month In…

The last blog I wrote came from the comfort of my parents home: safe, carefree and warm. Today, I’m writing from an internet Café in Muizenberg, with a view of homeless people who live under the local bridge. Harmless, spirited homeless people, who at home, I would merely ignore…

South Africa is just as beautiful as I remember. But its natural beauty is accompanied by extreme poverty. While I am writing, I can see Muizenberg Mountain to my right and the beautiful beach straight in front of me. People walk by the internet café, looking in, hoping that you will make eye contact and spare them some change, or some food…

It’s scenes like those that make you think, “Can we really make a difference?” “How can we help these people whose best option is to live under a bridge?” There are already so many people living with nothing, how can we help them?

I have been spending a lot of time this month volunteering with the Surf Outreach, a program with stratospheric potential, in Muizenberg. They are undergoing a lot of changes and I feel privileged to be a part of their program!

There’s been a lot of back and forth between TCT and the bank, but we should have our bank account up and running in the next two weeks. It turns out; they make it as difficult as possible to start up a bank account here! Even if the organisation is registered.

We have also been working with the schools that most need our involvement. We will start going into those schools on a regular basis after The Cape Town Marathon. Now we are meeting on a weekly basis to make sure when we go into school on our first days, we will be as prepared as possible to start our program. It’s at that point we will start accepting volunteers to come work with us starting in January 2016!

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