My name is Nick Botman, 25 years old and I am currently graduation for my bachelorInternational Business and Entrepreneurship at EuroCollege. To graduate, I'm doing my internship at Emerging Leaders South Africa. My choice to do my internship at Emerging Leaders in South Africa is because I want to see more of the world and learn a lot about different cultures. This is because of the globalization where South-Africa is one of the most upcoming country’s in the world and Emerging Leaders is helping to develop this country. That's great to be part of! 

For this reason, I started with this fundraise climb for Emerging-Leaders, aiming to create more brand awareness for Emerging Leaders and to raise money so they can improve the prosperity of South Africa. Through this climb I would like to give people the opportunity to engage in the problems in South Africa.

The training from Emerging Leaders teaches people to take back the life-pen of their own lives, to see that they have the potential to write a different story for their lives and become the answer to many of the issues that cause hopelessness in their personal and community life.

Emerging Leaders believes that leadership training can call out the Leader in everyone – if we don’t learn to lead ourselves we won’t lead anyone else.

Acquiring the position of ‘Leader’ in a vulnerable community, without learning to lead yourself for the benefit of others, is the road that leads to corruption, nepotism, deep frustration, cycles of poverty & violence, characterised in one word hopelessness. 

After many successful trainings in townships, which several people have started their own project, have learned how to save money and most importantly of all that they have learned to be the leader of their own lives, Emerging Leaders have now started a project in prisons. Here we learn the same leadership principles and we want to prepare prisoners on the real life.

Our goal is to train to 1,100 prisoners, which we already have trained 600 prisoners successfully. To give this project a boost I started this fundraising action to climb the Mount Meru in Tanzania. It will be a heavy climb from 4566 meters
high.

We want to train 200 more prisoners trough this fundraising campaign. You will already train one prisoner for a week for only ZAR300 (+-€20,-).

If you want to make a difference in South Africa and if you want to give me motivation to reach the top, please help me by giving a donation. 

Everythingis welcome and I will keep you up to date during my climb:)

Kind
regards,

Nick Botman