The Surfer Kids employed a new Surf Coach earlier this year. Sinesipho Ngungu started working for The Surfer Kids in July 2017. Sinesihpo is himself from the township where we recruit our kids. He is qualified for the job by virtue of the fact that he's a qualified lifeguard, having worked several seasons as a lifeguard at De Bakke Beach in Mossel Bay. He also completed an SSA Surf Instructor's Course with in October and he works for us full time, 5 days a week. We've been very impressed with Sinesipho and this incident confirmed to us what we already knew: Sinesipho is a huge asset for The Surfer Kids. On the 30th of November a elderly German tourist was swept out to sea in a rip current at

Marchall, who is now 19 years old first joined The Surfer Kids NON-Profit's Core Surf Program when he was 12 years old and was part of the group that we took surfing for the first time on November 20 2010. He surfed with the program on a regular basis for 6 years and he's walked a very long road with us, overcoming many challenges along the way. Marchall was one of two Surf Trip Assistants who worked on Unravel Surf Travel's 30th Surf Trip, from 26th November - 8 December 2017. In his own words, The Surfer Kids changed not only his life, but that of his entire family. His father struggled with drugs and alcohol for many years and his family was on the verge of splitting up when they first be