For 3 weeks this summer the team at Crossing countries will embark on a journey to Durban in South Africa. Here we will volunteer at a number of projects and do our best to help them in any small way we can.

We have two main volunteer placements this year that we are fundraising for. The first is Nombika High School. This rural school has many beautiful vibrant children who are eager to learn but due to location, poverty and state funding have very little knowledge of the wider world.
This year we would like to ask the final year students to create a business that would benefit not only them but their communities, we will help them to do this, they then must present their ideas to a panel of judges. The winners will be taken into Durban for an afternoon out. This may not seem like much but most of the young people have never ventured the 2 hour bus ride to the city, have never eaten out and have never been to the beach.

Our second project is Ikhwezi Welfare centre. This is home to young people with very complex needs. Here we would like to buy supplies to make their lives a bit brighter and easier, Paint for the bedroom of the young children who due to lack of funding for equipment can not get out of bed, simple crafts for those with a bit more mobility. Ikhwezi also runs a home for the elderly, we would love to be able to give this ladies crafting projects to keep their minds agile as well.

In short the money we raise will go towards paint, stationary, paper, crafting materials which will help many people young and old learn a new skill and create a brighter environment for them to live in.