Get Project Sunwave To The Beach

Before Project Sunwave, many children in Lamberts Bay had nowhere safe to go after school. No structured activities. No positive role models. Just long afternoons with too much time and too little direction.

This changed when a handful of women decided to do something about it, out of their own pockets, time, and a whole lot of heart.

Now local youth spend their afternoons in the sea. Surfing. Swimming and Nipper training. Building confidence and life skills. Being children. The sea has become their classroom, their playground, and their place of belonging.

Sunwave isn't just an after-school programme. It's a pipeline for confident, capable young people who know they belong somewhere. Getting them there consistently is what makes the difference between a moment and a movement.

The gap? Four kilometres.

Most children live more than 4 km from the beach. That distance determines who can walk there, who actually shows up, and how often they return, especially in winter.

We need a small surf van: a humble vehicle to safely carry children, equipment, and the consistency that turns a programme into a lifeline.

We are raising R30,000 for the deposit. 

Give what you can, anything at all, and help turn a humble plan into something these kids will feel for years. The ocean isn't going anywhere. Let's make sure they can get to it.

For full transparency, the vehicle is a Ashok Leyland Dost with a total cost of R276,000. Your support goes directly toward the R30,000 deposit, a very achievable first step to make this a reality.

Voor die ontstaan van Project Sunwave het baie kinders in Lambertsbaai nêrens veilig gehad om na skool, toe te gaan nie. Net lang middae met te veel tyd en te min leiding. Dit het verander toe 'n handvol vroue besluit het om iets daaraan te doen, uit eie sak, tyd, en 'n hele klomp hart. 

Nou spandeer plaaslike jongmense hul middae in die see. Brandering. Swem en Nipper-opleiding. Bou selfvertroue en lewensvaardighede. Om kinders te wees. Die see het hul klaskamer, hul speelgrond, en hul plek van behoort geword. 

Sunwave is nie net 'n na-skool program nie. Dit is 'n pyplyn vir selfversekerde, bekwaam jong mense wat weet hulle behoort êrens. Om hulle konsekwent daar te kry, is wat die verskil maak tussen 'n oomblik en 'n beweging. 

Die gaping? Vier kilometer.  

Die meeste kinders woon meer as 4 km van die strand af. Daardie afstand bepaal wie daar kan loop, wie werklik opdaag, en hoe gereeld hulle terugkom, veral in die winter.  

Ons het 'n klein surfbus nodig: 'n nederige voertuig om kinders, toerusting en die konsekwentheid wat 'n program in 'n lewenslyn omskep, veilig te vervoer.  

Ons lewer R30,000 vir die deposito in.  

Gee wat jy kan, enigiets, en help om 'n nederige plan in iets te omskep wat hierdie kinders jare lank sal waardeer. Die see gaan nêrens heen nie. Kom ons maak seker hulle kan dit bereik.

Vir volle deursigtigheid, die voertuig is 'n Ashok Leyland Dost met 'n totale koste van R276,000. U ondersteuning gaan direk na die deposito van R30,000, 'n baie haalbare eerste stap om dit 'n werklikheid te maak.