After cycling, unsupported 5 458km from Jo’burg to the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Thabang Skwambane climbed the highest mountain in Africa to raise awareness and financial support for The Lonely Road Foundation – a sub-Saharan African development charity, aiming to bring life, hope and opportunity to children in South Africa who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Thabang’s journey and successful summit of the Uhuru Peak (5 895m) on Mount Kilimanjaro, was symbolic of the lives of children who grow up alone and unsupported through childhood and adolescence – a tough struggle.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Thabang Skwambane: Cycling and walking the lonely road
After cycling, unsupported 5 458km from Jo’burg to the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Thabang Skwambane climbed the highest mountain in Africa to raise awareness and financial support for The Lonely Road Foundation – a sub-Saharan African development charity, aiming to bring life, hope and opportunity to children in South Africa who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Thabang’s journey and successful summit of the Uhuru Peak (5 895m) on Mount Kilimanjaro, was symbolic of the lives of children who grow up alone and unsupported through childhood and adolescence – a tough struggle.
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This is it!! I am now going to work towards becoming a social entrepreneur. Thabang Skwambane, I listened to your testimony (this term best describes your experience)at the EDC at the Convention Centre in Cape Town in July 2008! Your work and mission is awesome and it has certainly inspired me. I have come back to my friends and church about what you had done. This is exactly what you transpire to achieve that we CAN make a difference - each one teach one. I got the lesson!! May God continuously bless you in your mission and purpose in life.
Thank God for who you have become Thabang!
Greetings
Joy Lyner in Cape Town
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