Hiking for children in the Drakensberg: A silver lining to KZN troubles – Megan Bedingham

In the Northern Drakensberg, there is a small independent primary school called the Royal Drakensberg that is educating children from the area from the age of 4–10. It was co-founded by Megan Bedingham and Loretta Mecklenborg in 2007, initially to educate their own children, but was then expanded to include children from the area and now caters for 100 children. Their mission is to transform their local area through quality education initiatives and they also provide programmes to local communities to encourage early learning and child development. To raise funds for the school and their programmes; they have an annual Big5Hike through five peaks of the Drakensberg. Bedingham told BizNews they wanted to raise R1m with this year’s hike and were looking for corporates to sponsor two peaks … and for anyone who has an urge to scale a mountain, there are places left. – Linda van Tilburg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices