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In July 2011, I am partaking in a Charity trip to South Africa in order to help out at the Goedgedacht Trust. But first, I need to raise funds in order to get there. Your donations will help fund the costs of my trip out to South Africa, in order to work with the trust on a volunteer basis.
The Goedgedacht Trust runs a rural development Centre; 87 km north of Cape Town on the slopes of a small mountain range called the Kasteelberg, and now offers itself as a resource to the surrounding Swartland/West Coast area for development initiatives. The Trust is registered as a Charitable and Educational Trust (T965/93) in terms of the Non Profit Organisations Act as No.006/582. The Trust was registered in 1993. It took 3 years to renovate and upgrade the buildings and the Centre really started in 1996 with the appointment of full-time staff.
The flagship programme of the Trust; “The Path out of Poverty” programme for farm workers and their children (POP) started in 1998. The Trust is concerned with issues of poverty as it effects the lives of the rural poor. It is particularly interested in the needs and aspirations of new farmers and farm workers from previously disadvantaged communities.
The philosophy of the Trust is very simply to: Build People, Strengthen Community and Promote Democracy.
The Trust operates at three levels, Local, Regional and National. We are at present working on 32 farms and touching the lives of 1298 individuals.
See About Us to find out more about the charity and it's work, or click here to be taken to their site.