Project Concept:
Project Concept:
Children's Care Center in Vryburg, South Africa (or similar)
Children's Care Center in Vryburg, South Africa (or similar)
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This proposed project intends to support the Methodist Children's Care Center in Vryburg, South Africa, or a similar enterprise of the Methodist Church in South Africa.
Vryburg is in a rural area of the northern Cape in South Africa, 400 km (240 miles) from Johannesburg. In 1975 the Reverend Harold Brooks and his wife started to take into their home children of poorly educated farmworkers from the farms in the Vryburg area, who were receiving no formal education. In 1980 they built a proper Children's Home. This allowed the children to receive an education that would have otherwise eluded them. At present the project is accommodating 200 children, and it counts among its graduates numerous professionals (teachers, doctors, lawyers and accountants) and countless others who have been able to develop their God-given talents because of the work of all of the people involved with the project.
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator
Stuart Diesel
Retired Mechanical Engineer and Entrepreneur
Stuart Diesel is a retired professional Mechanical Engineer (BSc Eng Wits) and entrepreneur.
Born and educated in South Africa he specialized in Fluid Power Engineering and owned a very successful distribution and bespoke system building company in the UK, which he sold in 2017.
While travelling overland across Africa in 1992, Stuart experienced first-hand the challenges people face in sub-Sahara Africa, and the passion and ingenuity employed by many to rise up against these challenges. He is highly motivated to help in any way he can.
Since retiring, Stuart has kept himself busy with numerous personal projects including building a 27ft sail boat, which he sails all around the UK and Irish coast, numerous house renovation projects and brewing beer, including designing and building his own bespoke automated brewery.
Stuart also spends a few months each year travelling around remote areas of Southern Africa in his truck and off-road camping trailer.
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