Welverdiend – A Village That Hopes to Benefit from 2010

My new best friend Sally wrote this blog post on Welverdiend, and asked if I could promote what she wrote. There’s nothing better I like doing than highlighting.

In addition to tours and craft sales, the village of Welverdiend has accomplished a huge coop and received a grant for about R4.2 million ZAR to build tourist facilities and an Olympic-sized pool in preparation for 2010.

Now I wonder how an Olympic size pool is going to help all those soccer players from all around the world with their footie skills, especially since it will be our winter and brr freezing cold here, but who am I to nit-pick

For me, the most exciting aspects of the new grant and construction project is that it’s providing jobs for many villagers. Most of the construction workers are the single moms.

If you want to tour Welverdiend and be inspired, contact Dr. Wayne Twine at rcrd@global.co.za or Clifford Mathebula at blackmc@webmail.co.za.

If you want help planning a trip to South Africa that includes Welverdiend, contact the original author of this post at sally.kneidel@gmail.com. The villagers welcome families, school groups, and tourist organizations such as Elderhostel and Honeyguide. They are happy to adjust the tour to address the particular interests of each tour group. The villagers who lead the tours speak excellent English; no interpreters are needed.