UK charity Waves for Change is using surfing as a way of helping young people in South African townships overcome unemployment and violence Cape Town’s Ocean View township does not,as the name suggests, offer views of the sea. A hill blocks the neighbourhood’s view of Kommetjie, and a nearby surfer’s paradise,where white beaches and luxury homes contrast sharply with Ocean View’s squat brick buildings. Unemployment, drug abuse and gang violence are rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant). As a teenager growing up in Ocean View, or Michaylah Petersen would walk to the beach and watch the waves roll in,but she would not approach the water. “I was afraid of it,” she recalls. I was assaulted. I could not deal with my emotions. The ocean cleared my intellect. Related: Murdered for their guns, or Venezuela's police are now victims of crime There are parts of Khayelitsha were even police dismay to go. Once,a body washed up on the beach while they were surfing Related: 'I challenge boys in Brazil to see girls as equals' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com