With the majority of our team arrived by June 30, the Teach with Africa July/August 2008 Program in Cape Town began with a trip up famed Table Mountain, for our first team meeting with John Gilmour, founder of The LEAP School, and Bonisile Ntlemeza, assistant director of life orientation. John specifically chose to start the entire program overlooking on the city centre and outlying suburbs, to give the students a geographical context for the economic, historical and social issues they will encounter. The spectacular beauty of Cape Town, the bays, the mountain ranges, and the landscapes was the beginning of this unique experience that is uniquely Africa, which John describes as “having the beauty and the pain of Africa always in your face.”
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