We will raise funds for the One Child, One Backpack initiative towards better education for the children of Semonkong, a little village in Lesotho. This forms part of the bigger mission of the Semonkong Hospital Trust (NGO). On the last weekend of October will we embark on an adventure called the Jonkershoek Transverse. This is a route summiting seven peaks in the Jonkershoek Mountains, near Stellenbosch; the route is just over 30-kilometres in distance with 3,000-metres of elevation gain. There is a rich history to the route, with the earliest attempt recorded in 1963, with the current record standing at 8h 35 min, just indicating the extreme terrain of the route.

The children of Semonkong are in many ways disadvantaged - one of the needs we identified in their lives is the lack of school material. Many schools have no paper or books for the children to write in, let alone a pencil or pen to write with.  The teachers have very limited resources to conduct their classes with, as this is a very rural environment.  Our hearts desire is to fill this gap and provide every child with the opportunity to learn and develop as much as possible in school. Some of the children walk long distances to school. As a team, we would like to raise enough funds to put together a small backpack with a water bottle, lunch box, pencil case, pencil & eraser, crayons and colour pencils.