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Travel on African Travel, Inc.'s "Safari with a Sole" and improve a child's life.
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Dear Traveler,
African Travel, Inc. has partnered with orphanages and children projects in Africa to help disadvantaged children take a positive step forward.
We would like to invite you to take a "Safari with a Sole" on your upcoming trip to Africa: a brand new pair of children's shoes. We will provide you with the shoes, and you can include a visit during your trip to meet the children and personally deliver the shoes. Or, at the beginning of your journey in Africa, you may simply leave the shoes with an African Travel, Inc. staff member. We will then ensure that the shoes reach one of the organizations listed below.
If you feel inspired to participate, please let African Travel, Inc. or your Travel Professional know and a pair of shoes will be included in your final document package.
Thank you and warm regards,
African Travel, Inc.
CHILDREN SAY "THANKS" FROM THESE ORGANIZATIONS:
Emasithandane in Cape Town, South Africa www.emasithandane.org.za
Emasithandane (or "Emasi") is a home for orphaned and other vulnerable children in Nyanga, one of the poorest townships in Cape Town, where unemployment is hovering at around 70%.
Emasi was founded in 1994 by Mama Zelphina Maposela who in her community work focused on home-based care of patients suffering from tuberculosis and HIV/Aids. As many of the patients died, Mama Maposela stayed true to her promise to find their children a new home. When she couldn’t find foster homes for these children, she created one herself. Today, over a decade later, Emasi has grown to include 32 children living permanently in her small home and adjacent shack. She since opened her home to 25 other children by operating a community feeding kitchen and a daycare center for children in the community.
SAEP – South African Education and Environment Project www.saep.org
SAEP is dedicated to helping children and young adults in South Africa’s historically disadvantaged township communities develop their academic and life skills, obtain productive employment, and contribute as leaders to the economic and social development of their communities and their country. Children and young adults in South Africa's townships need a fair chance to develop personally and succeed in life if South Africa’s fledgling democracy is to survive and flourish. Most of the legal barriers to personal development have been removed with the end of apartheid, yet opportunities to learn and obtain meaningful employment remain sorely lacking.
Ebenezer in Livingstone, Zambia www.ebenezerchildcare.org
Ebenezer Child Care Trust was founded in March 2001 and was initially a feeding program for street kids in the town of Livingstone, Zambia. Today it has expanded into a school for orphans and also rents out three homes where orphans are given the sense of a family they have lost. A Housemother lives with the children and takes care of them. Today the help of Ebenezer reaches out to about 325 children in the community of Livingstone.
Q & A
How did it start?
The program unofficially began in 2007 when the staff at African Travel, Inc. began to donate gently-used hard to obtain shoes to an AIDS orphanage in South Africa. The program gained even more momentum when famous actor Forest Whitaker heard about the program and then took 50 pairs of African Travel's shoes with him to South Africa where they were then delivered to the Orlando Orphanage outside of Johannesburg. Today more than 300 pairs have been delivered, and as more people learn about the program, more shoes will be on the way.
Why do I want to get involved?
Since shoes sent from the U.S. can be lost in the mail, get stolen, or sometimes lost in the customs process, "Safari With a Sole" gives people who want to help the peace of mind that the child that they have chosen to help will immediately benefit from the new shoes being readily available.
How do I sign up for "Safari with a Sole"?
"Safari with a Sole" can currently be arranged on any safari that you book with African Travel that includes Cape Town, Johannesburg and/or Livingstone/Victoria Falls (more orphanages in East Africa will be added in the future). You will be given information about this project with your deposit document pack. You then confirm with your Travel Professional or African Travel, Inc.'s Safari Expert that you would like to participate.
How many shoes can we take?
You will be receiving one pair of new children's shoes with your final document pack. If you wish to take additional shoes, we recommend you only bring new or gently worn shoes. Since airline luggage restrictions apply on all flights, this will usually limit the amount of shoes you can bring. We recommend you pack the shoes with your luggage to avoid excess luggage charges (please consider the weight restrictions, domestic vs. international airlines may vary).
Can we bring other items?
Yes, you may. We recommend, pencils, note pads, school supplies, etc.
How can I personally visit one of the orphanages?
At time of booking, please ask your Travel Professional or African Travel, Inc.'s Safari Expert to include a visit during your trip.
Instead of taking shoes, can I make a financial contribution?
When announcing the project Safari with a Sole, many people asked if they could make a financial contribution. Although African Travel, Inc. is not set up to take cash contributions, one of the supported organizations, SAEP, has the ability to charge funds online. Contributions to SAEP are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Photos courtesy of Patsy A. Robert, SAEP and Acres of Love.
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