Daniel from Food and Trees for Africa

At Ulusaba, Sir Richard Branson’s private game reserve in South Africa, the guest experience goes beyond the adventures of the bush and into the lives of the surrounding communities as it joins forces with Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA) to celebrate ‘Arbor Month’ for the entire month of September 2010.  Read More

The Walls are there

Bricks and Books and everything else!

The Literacy center is on its way! Yippeee- the foundations are in, the walls are up, and the electricity is installed – and the roof is coming! This state of the art Literacy center will boast a library and a computer center. Read More

Well, another month of 2010 has flown by but what an exciting one! FIFA World Cup fever hit South Africa with a bang and it was no different out here in the bush!

Playing the game

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Wow May has been a whirlwind month! I literally cannot believe so much can be achieved in just 31 days. Here are a few highlights!

Project Pimp My Playground
Between the 3^rd and 8^th May we were invaded by a small army of amazing volunteers for the annual Virgin Unite Staff Connection Trip. Ten truly incredible people were chosen from Virgin companies around the world to volunteer with Pride ‘n Purpose and see various other Unite projects. They brought with them an unstoppable energy, bags of soccer kits and books, loads of laughs and a pretty substantial fundraising kitty! Read More

April has been such an overwhelmingly positive month that I literally do not know which good news story to lead with…

Water For All at Mahluhluvana
Last Friday was probably the most exciting day for me since I joined PnP in December…Mahluhluvana Primary School now have water on tap on site! Through our partnership with a truly fantastic organisation called Water For All (www.waterforall.org) and with a little help from our friends at Virgin Atlantic we managed to arrange for a brand new water pump system to be installed!

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We’re incredibly excited to announce plans to build a literacy centre at Mahluhluvana Primary School, complete with library and computer lab! PnP has pulled together a unique group of partners to make this dream a reality! Read More

Working taps in the village

Stop the press! We have some fantastic, amazing, incredible, wonderful news from Dumphries Village…

We now have clean running water on tap! The local government has put in 10 communal taps on the main street supplying fresh, clean municipal water to the community! Pride ‘n Purpose will continue to work with the community to fast track and improve access to safe water…watch this space for developments! Read More