In October 2012 I shall be flying out to South Africa with a team of colleagues from my firm, to rebuild and improve a charity centre for orphaned children in South Africa. 

We will be working on a project which helps to feed and give shelter to children in rural parts of South Africa. The project was set up by a local lady to feed children who had been orphaned by AIDS or abandoned when their families left to find work elsewhere. She started with a small group of children twenty years ago and with our help aims to feed up to 400 children at the centre. The project eventually aims to feed a thousand children a day.

We will spend 10 days working at the project which is in rural area of South Africa, sixty miles from the Soweto Township, close to Johannesburg. The centre incorporates traditional African buildings with new concrete blocks which give clean and safe housing for the children. Many of these children have lost their parents in terrible circumstances and are left to feed themselves. Often a child’s only daily meal will be at school, and even then a third of children are left hungry due to food shortages.

We aim to help rebuild and paint the existing buildings, aid the charity workers and help to cultivate their 30 acres of fields to make a kitchen garden: this way, more food can be grown on site and hopefully fewer children will go hungry.

Our firm webpage will give regular updates as to our fundraising activities at www.bpe.co.uk/bpe-volunteering-trip-to-south-africa

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