<p><!--StartFragment--></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As most of you will already know over the past few years I have been<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">working with a charity called The Kusasa Project. It&rsquo;s based in a remote place called Franschhoek, which is widely known as one of the most beautiful and exclusive places in South Africa. </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">The Kusasa Project was founded by a friend of my dad, who felt he couldn&rsquo;t enjoy his fabulous surroundings knowing that there were people who were living in abject poverty and whose future were extremely bleak. The Kusasa Project (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.thekusasaproject.org/"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; color: #1b25c2; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.thekusasaproject.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">) means a brighter tomorrow in the local language Xhosa. Their target is the children who live a few hundred meters from the luxurious town center in makeshift shacks with cardboard walls and dirt floors. They are surrounded by poverty, the ravages of HIV-Aids, alcoholism, illiteracy, domestic violence, sexual abuse, regular and early death and often the despair which comes from being in such an environment. Yet these kids are the friendliest, sweetest and most loving kids I have ever met.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">The Kusasa Project aim to help these children of the Franschhoek valley&nbsp;through education and sports in order to offer them a potential escape route to the poverty cycle of drugs and violence they all face. They&rsquo;ve already been responsible for building a brand new school in the area, sponsoring some of the more gifted children to attend the Public High School, kitting everyone out with uniform and starting up a Breakfast Club so that the kids can at least start the day on a full stomach.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">This summer I have challenged my brother and myself to climb Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa, in order to help change these children&rsquo;s lives and futures thanks to your sponsorships. 100% of the money you donate will directly go to the charity and towards the building of </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #151515;" lang="EN-US">a pre-school nursery.</span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">I know it&rsquo;s a lot to ask from you (again), as most of you are poor impoverished students. </span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">But even the smallest donation will have an impact on these children&rsquo;s lives. The difference we can make even by a small donation is immense.&nbsp;</span></p> <!--EndFragment--></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!--EndFragment--> <p>&nbsp;</p>