Boost the World South Africa – Community Building
What an exhilarating journey this has been. First, we set out to discuss the community’s pressing needs, meeting with dedicated community leaders at Orpen Gate RDP, then attentively listened to their aspirations and identifying their crucial needs. We meticulously built a comprehensive plan with enthusiastic young leaders to tackle some of the community’s persistent challenges. […]
Hoedspruit Food Garden Update
Currently they are Harvesting fresh cow peas and after two weeks mealies will be ready to be harvested. The monkeys are currently coming in the evenings to steal them as they are ripening. The Butternuts did not make because of heat, they only harvested leaves and served them to compliment the spinach.
‘I’ exist because ‘you’ exist
In a world that is increasingly about self-development, we seem to lose sight of the greatest good: each other. The emphasis is on me, my growth, my path, my success. But the further we develop ourselves, the more we seem to get lost in the loneliness of the ego. For what happens when the self […]
The Volunteering Experience in November / December 2022
The Young Leader Expedition was a 2-month trip to South Africa, where a group of four youth under 25 explored and experienced the real South Africa. They stayed at a family-oriented foster care facility, helping with kids, working in food gardens, and collaborating with the Boost the World South Africa team. The expedition focused on […]
7th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022
Hi everyone! This is our final week here in South Africa. We’re really enjoying it and getting close to finishing our garden project. This week’s blog is a bit bigger then the others because we left on Thursday, so we thought it would be best to extend this week’s blog. This week Tijn wrote the […]
6th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022
Nice to have you back for another weekly blog from us and if you’re new, welcome! This is a series of blogs, every week we write a blog of what we did and what we experienced that week. We are Willemijn (18 years old), Tijn (19 years old), Quinn (20 years old) and Declan (24 […]
5th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022
Hello everyone, we’re back with another blog of our 2 months trip to South Africa. This time we just got back from Cape Town and we needed to go back to work. We got back on a Monday evening and got back to work the next morning. The first thing that needed to be done […]
4th Update 8 weeks Expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022
Day 1: Monday On Monday Declan and I went to help the site team clean up the village. On Tuesday the former founders of Liv Lanseria came by so everything had to look neat and tidy. After 2 hours of cleaning up rubbish, we moved pebbles from the workshop to pre-school to finish a project […]
3rd Update 8 weeks expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022
Awesome that you are reading our next week blog! If you didn’t check out our previous blogs of our South Africa trip, please do that first. Then you have our whole story and some things make a lot more sense if you read all the blogs in chronological order. The beginning of week 3 started […]
2nd Update 8 weeks expedition Young Leaders South Africa 2022
2nd Update 8 weeks expedition South Africa 2022 Thank you for checking out our blog of our trip to South Africa. If you read the previous blog, welcome back and if you didn’t be sure to check that one out first. Then you can follow our hole story from start to finish. In week 2 […]