Blog post – Week 31

Arriving in Port Elizabeth, we stayed at yet another Guest House. This time owned by an elderly couple who every morning asked what we wanted for breakfast. In this city we experienced mainly two things: Addo Elephant National Park and Sandboarding. The national park was about 1 hour from our accommodation, and had every imaginable […]

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Blogpost – Week 30

Welcome to our blog! Here we will be writing about our project, and adventures along the way. We arrived in Cape Town in the morning after a long flight, with a layover in Istanbul in the middle of the night. Luckily our bags were easy to find. We invested in a couple of electronic SIM […]

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CESA Board of 2024

Greetings from the board of CESA 2024! Anticipating a great year as we embark on this project together. ⭐️ From left to right we have: Annelie Hansson Thomas Mathiassen Nadia Farias

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Two weeks of work in Hluhluwe

Our first day in Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal began at the Star For Life office, where amazing people warmly welcomed us. We diligently checked all the computers we had shipped to ensure they were still intact. For this trip, we had 45 computers, but we could only ship 32 of them due to the unavailability of […]

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First two weeks in South Africa

Hello everyone, CESA 2023 here and we have a fantastic trip to tell you all about! We decided to take the opportunity to travel around in South Africa when we were going here anyway for the project and let me tell you, it was well worth it. I think all of us can say that […]

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CESA 2023

We’re the new board of CESA 2023 and we look forward to a year full of excitement and thrill in this project! From left to right we have:Zoé OpdendriesAli ShereefMarcus Axelsson

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Third and last week in Hluhluwe

Our last week in Hluhluwe has gone by and we have returned home to Sweden. It was our third week visiting schools, as usual, the schools were: Ezibukweni High school, Makhasa high school, Majindi Primary (the school we could not see the week prior due to strikes), Hluhluwe public school, and Nompondo Primary. We also […]

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THE SECOND WEEK OF WORKING
Students learning HTML

This second week has been full of adventure as we have both attended and attempted to attend a number of schools. The first day we attended Nompondo Primary School, they have no computers as of yet, but the plan is to change that rather quickly as a major donation is being made to this school […]

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The first week of working

We’ve finally arrived in Hluhluwe and made ourselves at home at the hotel we’re staying at. The hotel is called Hlulala hotel which is a roughly 5 minute drive to Stars for life’s headquarters. Our first week has been short as South Africa’s national women’s day took part this week so we had a few […]

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South Africa Travels

Hello everyone! Today is our first day in Hluhluwe. A lot has happened during the past two weeks when we have gotten the opportunity to explore Africa! Spondon from past years CESA board has joined this experience but has now left to go back to Sweden. We have had the pleasure of going to Cape […]

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