Climbing Kilimanjaro has been a lifelong dream for me. My husband, Jan, thinks I am totally nuts in embarking on this adventure, and perhaps there is an element of craziness involved in people who do stuff others might classify as “Xgames”.
“What for?” you might ask. The answer mostly would be: “I don’t know why, I just know I have to do this”. One thing I am sure of is I would like this hike to be more than just a fulfilment of a dream and also add meaning to other lives. So when Jan said “why don’t you hook up with Thembalitsha?” (an NGO he is on the board of) it immediately felt right to me.
The School of Hope (a Thembalitsha project) is a school “offering hope for education for vulnerable youth, inspiring them to a life of destiny and purpose”. These teachers are doing such a wonderful job in a society where it is acceptable to be a failure, where youths are lured into a life of gangsterism, into a life of living on the streets, due to a lack of positive role models and a stable home environment. A school that looks beyond traditional views of what one should be like. A school that accepts children for what they are, seeing what they might become and helping them to achieve their full potential in life.
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