I got involved with Emerging Leaders back in 2016 after seeing Trevor and Jane deliver some leadership training to 50 farmworkers in Stellenbosch.  The training involved all the same leadership principals that would be taught to highly paid businessmen but was in fact delivered to those with not much or nothing.  The effect is astonishing.  

Fast forward a few years and I now help run the SA version (ELSA) which, although still small, has grown each year and two years ago started a 3yr environmental leadership project together with The Table Mountain Fund.  This trains children in 7 schools each year to be leaders and then they get to apply for a grant from the TMF to run a project.  So far groups have planted trees, collected rubbish off the beach, set up a school vegetable garden and recycling project, built outdoor seating with eco bricks, learnt to crochet plastic bags into something useful and saved their schools thousands of gallons of water.  

Most of the money to run this comes from ELSA's leadership training on farms which is paid for by the farm owners along with M&S, Tesco and other supply chain leaders, but there is always a shortfall.  If I can raise R40,000 ( today's £ rate £2,083) it will pay for another 200 children to be trained (£10 each)

I know everyone has lots of things to spend on but if everyone can give what they can the money will be spent very frugally and wisely.  We have done a few videos of the project which you can see on our ELSA facebook page 

https://www.facebook.com/EmergingleadersSA/