Hello all, last year I visited South Africa with my school and visited a local trust called Goedgedacht Trust (
www.goedgedacht.org.za/).
Goedgedacht is a very beautiful old Cape Dutch farm situated on the slopes of the Kasteelberg, just 87km north west of Cape Town. The farm was one of the first allocated to the "Free Burgers" in 1704 and is steeped in the history of the old Cape Colony. However, times have changed and Goedgedacht farm is now a busy community development centre where a determined effort is being made to make a real contribution to the most critical problems facing all of us... poverty and climate change.
Established in 1993 the Trustees looked for ways to make the development work sustainable.
I was fortunate to meet some very inspirational people and I helped out at the farm by working with the Preschool Children, helping them do simple things like teaching them to brush their teeth, and notice patterns which children of their age can normally understand. I also helped out by planting more trees in order to grow into Olive Trees so that the trust could produce more Olive Oils to sell to the local supermarkets such as Pick N Pay so that they can get more money to feed children that are living in the local area who are in poverty. I also helped out at the Olive factory, making the Olive Oil to sell on. And another job was to sand the donated bikes down so that they could be repaired/repainted and sold on to increase profit to feed more children and expand Goedgedacht to more local areas.
This year, I have been invited back, and this is an opportunity I cannot miss, I want to help out again, but this year I am going to university so I don't have as much funds like I did last year, so I would be very grateful if you could spare a few £/$ or whatever currency to help pay towards the trip. I am very grateful to all those who donate and words cannot describe how life changing this trip was, and too experience it all again and to help out again makes me grateful for the opportunities in life. So thank you for your donations. Please follow the link below to donate.
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