Appletreewick village hall is a long way from the township of Dunoon. Nestling under Simon's Seat in beautiful Wharfedale it is about as northern european as can be. On Wednesday January 5th, the community of Skyreholme, Appletreewick, Burnsall and Hartlington gathered to raise funds for Cape Kids, a charity that supports kids projects in the sprawling cape flats below the iconic Table Mountain. Fittingly, the smiling children of Dunoon and Gugulethu gazed down on the gathering from their projected images on the wall above. They will have liked what they saw.
They are worlds apart, but on Wednesday they were, in a special way, brought together.
Twelve people put their heart and soul and their cooking skills into making the evening such a wonderful success: John and Pamela, Judy and Alastair, Robert and Sally, Lynne and Jim, John and Angela, Karen. They raised £2,400 pounds in all, every penny of which will go to the children. Thanks too to everyone who turned up and made the evening such a lot of fun. There was some food left over at the end, so on Thursday night it went to homeless people in Leeds. Well done to Katie!
This is the beginning of a year devoted to gathering resources for Cape Kids. In April, we host Marian Hendricks from the St.Kizito Movement at Banquet House as we share with more people the work and the challenges in the poorer communities of the Cape.
