BPE Volunteering Trip to South Africa

BPE Solicitors are delighted to announce that we will be sending a team of volunteers to South Africa in October to help rebuild and improve facilities at a charity centre for orphaned children. The volunteers will get the chance to change lives whilst exploring a diverse and exciting country.

BPE will be sending 10 hard-working members of staff from all areas of the business on a 10-day trip to a charity centre which helps to feed and give shelter to children in rural parts of South Africa, known as the “veldt,” meaning scrubland.  

The project was set up by a local lady to feed children who had been orphaned by AIDs or abandoned when their families left to find work elsewhere. She started with a small group of children twenty years ago and with our help aims to feed up to 400 children at the centre. The project eventually aims to feed a thousand children a day.

The team will be visiting a rural area of South Africa, sixty miles from the Soweto Township, which is close to Johannesburg. The centre incorporates traditional African buildings with new concrete blocks which give clean and safe housing for the children. Many of these children have lost their parents in terrible circumstances and are left to feed themselves. Often a child’s only daily meal will be at school, and even then a third of children are left hungry due to food shortages.

Our team of volunteers aim to help rebuild and paint the existing buildings, aid the charity workers and help to cultivate their 30 acres of fields to make a kitchen garden: this way, more food can be grown on site and hopefully fewer children will go hungry.