Tom and I went on a whistlestop tour of the Eastern Cape last week to visit different sites for a potential roll out of the WhizzKids United programme in two new areas, Port Elizabeth and Canzibe.

We flew into East London on Wednesday, March 3, to meet with Dr. Paul Cromhout at the Small Projects Foundation. They would like to offer their local knowledge and expertise to help us get the programme started. SPF already partner with our programme funders in Rustenburg, One to One Childrens Fund (O2O).

The following day we drove to Dora Nginza Hospital in Port Elizabeth to discuss the programme with Nonkosi Dlalasi and Cheeky Zonto, who are both based at Dora Nginza Hospital, and work for O2O.

On Friday, we drove five hours to Canzibe, a rural area in the Transkei, and met with Alice Klaarveld, a who also works for SPF and is based at Canzibe Hospital.

We then took a treacherous and bumpy two hour drive down to the coast and spent the night in Coffee Bay. In the morning, I went for a surf while Tom took a relaxing hike along the cliffs, before we drove back to Durban arriving in time for Marcus′ birthday party that night. Happy Birthday Marcus !!!

All in all, we are very excited about the outcomes of the site visit and met some truly exceptional people that could make the programme a success in the targeted areas. We would like to thank One to One Childrens Fund, who funded the trip, and everyone who we met along the way.