27/10/2024
📣Cool Project Alert
In early 2025, Christopher Venter - Blind Adventurer, Writer, Speaker, Content Creator with his mate, Mike, playing sighted guide, will embark on a journey to visit underprivileged schools for the blind in rural South Africa. For the journey, they will also be joined by the handsome guide dog, Sam.
Over the course of a month, they will visit eight special needs schools, two orphanages, and several mainstream schools. Partnering with the U.S. based organization You Cane Give Initiative, the intrepid explorers will donate mobility canes to the students most in need.��Their expedition will take them through the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal, the southern Free State, and the Karoo regions of the country. Lions Clubs International of South Africa has pledged to support the pair by hosting them and helping to engage local media as they travel through each region. This journey will serve as an opportunity for education and inspiration, embodying the mantra that, in an accessible world, a blind person can achieve anything a sighted person is able to.��YouCaneGive has already generously provided hundreds of mobility canes to students in various parts of Africa, and this project aims to extend their reach to those most in need. Many of the schools they will visit are located down long dirt roads in extremely rural areas, often making them forgotten by society. Providing a collapsible mobility cane to these young learners will give them the invaluable gifts of mobility and independence.��The enthusiastic explorers will depart from Cape Town in early February 2025 and return after a journey of around 4000km, most of which will be along dirt tracks. This project will provide access to life-changing tools that would otherwise be out of reach for most of these students. Who knows what paths they will forge with a proper mobility cane in hand?��Your help is needed to make this project a success.��If you know anyone travelling between South Africa and the US over the next couple months, perhaps you could ask them to help carry a few of the sponsored canes in their spare kgs of luggage?��If you can host the team as they pass by offering them an overnight spot to crash or grabbing them lunch or some refreshments, please shout.��If you know of any corporates that would like to get involved and sponsor some fuel for a promo visit enroute, please shout.��If you have a few bucks spare and would like to make a financial contribution of any amount, check out our back a buddy page link for details on how to make that happen.�
This is a feel good project that will educate, inspire and uplift. with help from the community, we can change the lives of hundreds of needy students. please help us make this dream a success.
https://www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/sticks-for-the-blind-eastern-cape-south-africa-2025
