Weʼve raised £720 to do a once in a life time project to support disabled and vulnerable children in Durban, South Africa.
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Funded on Saturday, 30th June 2018
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Hi, I would like to ask for your help to raise money by donating to my Just Giving page. Your kind donation will enable me to support disabled children and children who are victims of abuse in Durban, South Africa. This will be a three week project taking place in the summer of 2018.
I have been selected to volunteer with disabled and non-disabled people on a Crossing Countries project in Durban, South Africa. Crossing Countries, a social enterprise based in Edinburgh, provides tailored equal opportunities for disabled and non-disabled people to travel and volunteer abroad together. Their tag line, ‘Challenging boundaries, Changing lives’, epitomises their undertaking. They seek to contest both the physical and psychological boundaries that prevent people from being all they can be and to demonstrate everyone can be a valuable member of society. Our team will work together to fundraise and plan our travel and the projects we will deliver at our placements. During the three-week 2018 summer programme in Durban, I will be working alongside disabled and non-disabled, Scottish and South African volunteers in township schools, crèches, special needs schools, welfare organisations and other sustainable projects. As I’ve worked as a volunteer to support disabled adults in Scotland, UK and America this is an amazing opportunity for me to use my personal experiences of living with disabilities and use my experiences working with disabled adults throughout the UK and America to help children in this new South African project. By working with children in Durban, this will add to my knowledge and skills by allowing me to support disabled children in an underdeveloped environment as well as learn cultural challenges surrounding disabilities in Durban. Our small team will help in the local schools by teaching the children about positive attitudes towards disabilities and provide them with skills to live their lives more easily.
I will be using my own experiences of living with disabilities which are; sight loss due to brain damage caused by a stroke and a heart condition, to help the young children understand why disabilities should be viewed as a positive and NOT a negative barrier stopping them living normal, happy lives. I will show the children how people in Scotland live their lives with disabilities and break down negative stigmas surrounding disabilities. I will use recorded interviews from people I have worked with in Scotland who live with disabilities and play those recordings to the children in as part of a disability awareness training course, my hope is that the children will see the positives of disabilities and I am looking forward to hearing what their thoughts are on disabilities from a cultural perspective.
I was fortunate enough to be 1 of only 20 young people chosen out of 400 applicants to become a Young Leader and I was invited by the United States Department of State to work in America last year due to the level of social cohesion work I successfully completed in Scotland and the rest of the UK
Going to Durban will present me with an altogether different challenge! I will be entering into an unfamiliar environment which is far from what i'm used to in Scotland. I feel that a lack of resources will present it's own unique challenges so to help with this I plan to take spare unused resources to Durban to give to the children rather than resources been wasted as the children will benefit from them. I am also unsure how much the children in their communities understand about disabilities so that will be interesting to find out too. There is no doubt that this will be a challenging experience but I am extremely excited to take on this new challenge and I am very keen to learn how children live their lives with a disability in a country that is unable to provide the same level of support for disabled people as we have in Scotland and the UK.
I would really appreciate any donations that you can give. Your kind donation will go towards funding a project that will help and support children who are living in difficult circumstances made even more challenging due to their disability. Your donation will enable me to expand on the work I have did for the past two years in the UK to overseas.
Thank you very much for supporting me with this project!
Steven
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R Mooney
Apr 10, 2018
£20.00
Kelly Quay
Apr 6, 2018
£20.00
Ian Brown
Mar 26, 2018
Good luck, Steven!
Hollie Wilson
Mar 26, 2018
Best of luck with your fundraising, Steven! I'm sure you'll inspire and make a difference in Durban.
£10.00
Ken Reid
Mar 22, 2018
Well done Steven, a great challenge and a wonderful experience.
£20.00
Matthew Clark
Mar 21, 2018
Good luck with your exciting project Steven. Keep up the great work and hope you leave every person you meet out there inspired! P.s. hope there's room in the case for Haggeye Jnr again ;)
£10.00
Terry Robinson
Mar 20, 2018
All the best Steven, excellent project, good luck.
£20.00
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