People and rubber bands have one thing in common: they must be stretched to be effective. – John Maxwell

Moving On

An article posted in the Big Issue about Luyanda Mkapeni, a successful participant in Outward Bound’s training program.

Expressing talent with espresso and a little education

In February the Outward Bound Trust of South Africa and the Pick n Pay Foundation launched a skills training initiative in partnership with Origin Coffee Roasting.

Outward Bound South Africa was started as a result of the visionary efforts of Charles P Stetson, an American philanthropist from Connecticut. Since his death, his son, Chuck Stetson, has been very involved in our organisation, particularly with the funding of bursaries for disadvantaged youth to attend Outward Bound programmes.

The students and supervisors from the South African Education and Environment Project have written letters of thanks to their Outward Bound instructors and to the JDI Group who sponsored their course. This is a little snippet of what they wrote!

The pilot “Starfish Bound” course which was run in September for the Starfish supported project, Wola Nani, was a resounding success for the 28 young adults who attended.

Bridge House school has contracted with Outward Bound South Africa to run the annual Grade 9 camp since 2005. At every step of the process we have had nothing but exemplary service and exceptional professional organisation.

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In 2008 the Outward Bound Trust of South Africa in partnership with Murray & Roberts ,conducted research on 13 courses in order to evaluate the impact the programs have on personal developmental areas and to determine if the impact of courses differs between short courses (5-7days) and long courses (14+ days).

2008 was a successful & exciting year for Outward Bound.

Murray and Roberts has continued it’s support with major sponsor and various programmes were run for disadvantaged youth from various street shelters in both Gauteng and the Western Cape. This year we are hoping to expand this programme to include the Eastern Cape and possibly the Ellisus district.