What you can expect are hosts who think globally about sustainability. What you can experience is what they do locally.
About places we support:
Bo-Kaap is the home of the Cape Malay people originally from Dutch East India. A special cultural experience of architecture, food, music, stories and religion in and next to the well known city of Cape Town. Explore the deepest natural harbour in the world and the sea food from the nutrition rich cold Benguella current. Learn about the struggle for sustainable harvesting from these waters from ship building and community involved people like Diane and Robert Schaafsma.
Working West Coast farm where you can share in the production processes of meat and potatoes whilst experiencing the close knit social dynamics of farming communities. Experience the good and the bad of a farmer having diamond mines as your neighbour where “Mining” is not shaft sinking but actually an earth moving operation. Be enlightened by the good community projects and the “Bad” about mining and rehabilitation of the earth.
Live among the Griekwas - living cultural representatives of the Khoi in South Africa - in their own holy environment on the unique and harsh Namakwaland Knersvlakte. How do this community express their culture in terms of beliefs, music, food and social structure. Your money will make a substantial contribution. Stay in Van Zijl’s Guest houses. Hendrik went to Nieuwoudtville to be close to the plants he love. He bought and start restoring old stone houses and revitalised the industry to the extent that artisans can again live from their local stone cutting masonry work.
Be a guest in “the Lord Milner Hotel, the last authentic vestige of Victoriana, in South Africa. The Lord Milner's 58 guest rooms have been well maintained over the years and a high standard of service upheld.” (Quote from their website). Stay on a working ostrich farm in Oudtshoorn where the owner stopped farming in one paddock to make room for Meerkat research and a walking with Meerkats experience. Local people involved in the Meerkat and hospitality section using own farm produce for meats and salads.
Stay with Heidi van der Merwe from Bonnievale and meet someone who got international support for her social upliftment programmes among farmworkers in the Breede Vallei region. In Arniston Waenhuiskrans, supporting the women’s club of local Kassiesbaai fishing community in their efforts to create additional income. Learn about the local social problems from the people who work pro actively to improve the community life.
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