During the winter lockdown Active African Nicole Samsodien and her family supported a homeless community in Cape Town’s southern suburbs. Nicole and the Matthews family provided food, clothing and basic supplies to children, adults and pets who were living on the street or in shanties a stone’s throw from middle class suburbs. In spite of donor fatigue and the devastating economic effects of COVID-19 on their own incomes, Nicole and her family continue to assist the community.

Nicole’s US-based sister Lizelle, also contributed a significant donation to buy provisions, but this is being quickly depleted and with Christmas around the corner, Nicole would like to make a push to provide basic food supplies to the community to tide them over the holiday season.

HIKE FOR HUNGER

Active Africa guides have stepped up to help raise funds for Nicole’s project. COVID-19 has been devastating to tourism around the world and every one of us has been significantly affected. However, while we are unable to do the work we love, we are fortunate to be able to still enjoy our ‘office’.

We will, therefore, be walking from the base of Table Mountain to the Silvermine Dam, a distance of 25km, on December 18^th.

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We aim to raise enough money to provide staple food items for the 102 families at Flamingo Heights informal settlement and the approximately 150 individuals of the Lansdowne homeless community over the Christmas period. Ideally, we hope to raise enough to continue to support the community into 2021.

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This is how you can assist us:

• Make a quick and easy donation via PayPal
• Pledge a donation and we’ll send you a credit card payment link.
• Donate items from the list below (we will arrange to collect)
• Get sponsored the old-school way and walk with us on the 18^th (remember swimming back and forth for Aunty Betty’s R2 a length sponsorship?)
• Walk with us and have your thousands of Facebook friends drop us a $5 donation via PayPal

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FYI: $5 = approx R75 / $10 = approx R150

Heaps of gratitude to the following donors:

Can’t assist financially?

Then come and walk with us anyway and have a great day out on the mountain. When would you otherwise have the chance to walk on Table Mountain with qualified mountain and tourist guides for free?

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We will be making up parcels of the following. Please feel free to donate items from the list below:

Our route on 18 December

Starts at the LOWER CABLE STATION

Finishes at SILVERMINE DAM

We start up India Venster, across the main table to Maclear’s Beacon, along Smuts track to the Overseers hut, then via Constantia Ridge to Constantia Nek.

From Constantia Nek to Blackburn Ravine via the manganese mines, up Blackburn Ravine and descend to the Silvermine Dam.

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