Laurika Rauch

Die jaarlikse WANT ONS KAN konsert vind vanjaar plaas op 29 Julie in die Bellville Burgersentrum. People Living With Cancer/Cancer Buddies is vanjaar een van 3 begunstigdes wat die opbrengs van hierdie konsert deel.

Kunstenaars tree sonder vergoeding op en ander borge sorg vir die lokaal, beligting, klank ens. Elke kaartjie wat ons verkoop se geld gaan dus na PLWC!

Kunstenaars wat alreeds bevestig het dat hulle sal optree is : Laurika Rauch, Andriette Norman, Emo Adams en Take Note, Pedro Kruger, Zanne Stapelberg, Alan Committie, Heinz Winckler, Koos Kombuis, Lize Beekman, ADAM, Brandon October, Die Broers, Wicus v d Merwe, Dowwe Dolla. Die lys sal elke maand langer word.

Hierdie is ‘n geleentheid om van ons land se beste kunstenaars op een aand te sien en terselfdertyd PLWC te steun – kom ondersteun ons, asseblief!

Henk, Elise and Linda.

All our hopes are on Henk, the Big Fighter who is willing to step in the boxing ring to raise funds for People Living With Cancer.

Please come and support him on 5 April at the Trinity Nightclub!

Cycle to survive 2012.

I really don’t know anything about surviving cancer treatment and living with cancer, but if it has anything to do with blind faith, perseverance, not giving up, pushing your body beyond what you thought its limit was, then maybe a bike trip from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town can be used as a comparison of the journey that people living with cancer is going through.

At the start, the journey is full of unknowns, questions without answers. Will you make it all the way? How hard will it be? What if you don’t make it? You have already heard stories from other people on how hot it can be, how steep the hills are and how hard it will be to cycle for 5-6 hours day after day.

The journey starts out easy enough, with the wind in your back and a cool, overcast day, and you wonder what all the fuss was about, but that soon changes as the sun starts burning down and the hills get steeper. But you still feel strong and soon enough it is over and you have survived the day with enough courage to feel positive about the next day.

As your body wears down and your legs start complaining about the slightest uphill, you start to realize that the only way that you will make it through a tough day is by focusing on the people around you. Your fellow riders and the support team behind you. You become aware that you cannot do it alone, but with their help, support and encouragement you can do more than you thought possible.

On some days you see the rolling hills stretch out into the distance, one climb after the other and you dread what is coming. But as you reach the first summit, you see that there is just enough flat section before the next climb for you to get your breath back and relax a little bit before the next climb. And you also realize that the next uphill is not as steep as it looked from afar. That taught me that nothing in life is “just one big uphill battle”. God gives us just enough to cope with, for that moment, with the strength He also supplies. There will always be some relieve, some flat section, something beautiful to give you rest and renewed strength for the next uphill. I also saw that our hardest day, with the longest distance to cycle was also the day when everything seemed to be against us. The wind was from the front and the sun was scorching down relentlessly. And we seemed to lose our way and could not find the roads we were looking for. But when I thought back I realized that the day before and the day after the “hard” day were like “rest days” on our journey. The wind was in our back and the start was in cool mist. The surroundings were beautiful and the road seemed flat even though it wasn’t.

Any endurance event is a team effort. Some of the suffering and pain you have to endure is personal and you go through it alone, but it is made bearable by the support of the team. Thanks to the team that made my journey enjoyable enough that the few hard times are soon forgotten and the many good memories will stay forever. Most important thanks to God for the protection on the road and the many hours I could talk to Him and spend in His surrounding love and peace.

Johan Engelbrecht

Medical Physicist

20/3/2012

Four tough guys with big hearts ran the gruelling Salomon Skyrun last year to raise funds in memory of a dear friend, Cilla Hanson. And they donated these funds to People Living With Cancer! Here is an article by one of these guys, Brett Simpson (published in Runner’s World). Thank you so much, we appreciate your generosity!

Salomon SKYRUN 2011

Team “Cause we can” in dedication to Cilla Hanson

The Salomon Skyrun is a single stage 107km self – navigation, self – sufficient mountain race across some of the most untouched and breathtaking landscape in South Africa. Four of us run for charity in dedication to the courage of a recently passed friend.

Adrian Saffy, the event organizer, endorses this ultra endurance, self-navigation adventure race as being the ultimate test of BODY stamina, a journey through SOUL navigation and in the end, of SPIRITUAL survival!

It’s tough to quantify a race into words which cannot easily be described in terms of the extremities in physical, spiritual, mental and soul journey which one go’s through in 107km/32 hours of isolated mountain navigation.

This single stage journey/race is made up of many challenging elements that stimulate, HURT and inspire us as participants.

The first section is a 65km stretch run in mostly daylight across some of the most astounding scenery with scrambling climbs across 100 foot sheer ridges, wind blown pinnacle crawls and rump sliding grassy slopes which no trail shoe can assure your coccyx of an impact free journey.

The halfway stop is in a beautiful valley called Balloch which we reached just before sunset, after 14 hours of running. A medical team greets us with a physical check and a few sanity based questions, a meal, change of clothes and then it’s off into the dark.

The night leg is where digging deep comes into a whole new reality.

We journey through cycles/periods when we feel like Thor himself in a powerhouse of highly vibrating energy with mindset equivalent, but this can and did turn into a mind space of utter pain and despondency within seconds, deep into the night, set against 2 demonic mountain climbs in the WALL and the Bridal pass.

It’s somewhere between midnight and dawn where you touch on your humanity, exploring new limits and you enter the pain cave. And this is where the magic happens J

We all four participated for different reasons but the journeys we individually went through were very personal and life changing in our perception of life, limits and what is truly possible as a human being.

Out of 139 who started the 107km course, only 77 of us finished leaving some remorse and regret for nearly half of the starting field.

Team Cilla results

Ray O’Bree                           29:12:00 (38^th)

Brett Simpson                       32:26:00 (48^th)

Francois Geldenhuys         32:40:00 (50^th)

Justin Fourie                                    32:40:00 (50^th)

Beyond our daily experience of life we (www.causewecan.org.za) realize how lucky we are to be alive and to live healthy and it’s against Cilla’s life that we dedicate our race and fund raising efforts to an amazing organization PLWC (People Living With Cancer).

Quotes

Justin Fourie – “I learned how tough the human spirit can be! I went from wanting to stop at the halfway mark to completing another grueling 15 hours in the mountain. And if we came to the end of the race and they said “Just kidding! You’ve got to go another 15km’s” We would have done kept going, straight after beating them with our hiking poles J”

“The Skyrun is the toughest thing I’ve ever attempted and I knew it would be when I signed up for it……I just didn’t know how tough.”

Francois Geldenhuys – “This one’s not for the faint-hearted.”

Brett Simpson – “In finishing, comes a feeling like nothing I have ever experienced in Iron Man or Comrades, it speaks to one’s soul in a way which can’t be described into words,… it’s a feeling of grounding, an appreciation of life, nature and the surprise in our human ability to fool itself into doing more than we are told are possible”

Ray O’Bree – “that’s the hardest race I have ever completed”

Races Ray has completed -

- Ironman South Africa x3

- ABSA Cape Epic x2

- 250km Kalahari Desert Marathon

- The Zambeziman

- The Watertrail x2

- The Merrell Eden Duo x3

- Xterra

- The Comrades

Cancer Buddies – Ride 4 Skin Cancer (CBR4SC-012)

Cape Argus Pick ‘n’ Pay Cycle Tour 2012

Hi Everyone

What a day! We couldn’t have asked for a less windy ride! The heat on the other hand…! ! Enough about the weather – a HUGE thank you to everyone for their incredible support; whether it was on the bike, the side of the road, cocktail party or by donating on www.plwc.org.za. It is all sooo appreciated!

The Ride 4 Skin Cancer Awareness started out 5 years ago to create awareness of Skin cancer and to give something back to those suffering from Cancer of any kind.

Once again we joined up with Cancer Buddies to bring friends, associates and strangers together to raise awareness and much appreciated funds for our chosen cause.

60 Riders started in our charity bond this year and another 10 rode in the shirts (we even saw a few of last year’s shirts floating around!).

Our very eager followers wore their supporters T-shirts and there was much admiration of our kit!

The final figures are being tallied up and more donations are still coming in to www.plwc.org.za  so we have not got a final number yet but by all accounts we have had a great year of fundraising for the R4SC – Thank you to all the wonderfully generous supporters of our cause (big and small!)

There were sore bodies, smiles, punctures, laughs and long hills!!

Some of our riders on the road…

At the end!

See you next year!!

Contact: Henre Pretorius

Tel. 0832346633

Email. henre@vredefoundation.co.za

 VREDEFEST 13, 14 APRIL 2012

13 April Joolplaas, Potchefstroom& 14 April Arcade Empire PTA

“Music is power ” – Richardt Ashcroft

Music, well good music, has always been about more than just the music, or even the attitude. That is why choose to convey our message through one of the most powerful and relevant forces in the world. And yes, we also love good tunes and the people who support it.

That is why, after 3 years, thousands of spirited supporters and all the bands dedicated to the cause, the Vrede Foundation is proud to announce our 8^th installment of this popular event.

This time it will be louder and more message driven than ever. With the event happening on the NWU Campus (PUKKE) and Arcade Empire over 12 and 13 April 2012.

Bands confirmed for the lineup thus far include: Gazelle, Taxi Violence, Zebra & Giraffe, Wrestlerish, Moses Metro Man and aKing.

VredeFests’ focus will be one of advocacy and awareness going out to those attending the events. For young people it is as simple as knowing what symptoms to look out for, and trusting your body for an early diagnosis of most forms of cancer.  Early diagnosis is key to fighting and beating cancer.

Spreading this message to students on campus will be the focus for these events with THE PINK DRIVE http://www.pinkdrive.co.za/ dedicating one of their mobile mammography units to the message over 12 and 13 April 2012. The VredeFest on 13 April 2012 is the culmination of this message.

The  PUK graphic design department will also be in charge of creating the marketing material to be distributed on campus.

This concept is the first of its kind and one the Vrede Foundation is looking to move to all other tertiary institutions in the future.

All funds raised are to benefit The Vrede Foundation and its strategic goals. For more info, go to: www.vredefoundation.co.za or contact XXXXX

BIG FIGHT CAPE TOWN
5th April 2012, Trinity Nightclub, Cape Town

Some of Cape Town’s best amateur boxers are stepping into the ring with a new purpose – they’re fighting for charity in East City Boxing’s fundraising tournament on 5th April. The event will include live entertainment, good DJs at a great venue hosting up to one thousand people.

All the competitors have a chosen charity to fight for. Spectators at Big Fight Cape Town will learn more about the work of the charities on the night, and if they choose to place a bet on a match, the proceeds will go to winner’s charity. The fighters will be training and fighting their hearts out in the spirit of competition and also for a very worthy cause. This is the first in what it is hoped will be an annual event in the City.

The charities are all local Cape Town initiatives with many from the City Bowl itself. They include:

- Straatwerk
- Uturn
- Scalabrini
- Mylife (for street children)
- The Haven group
- The Homestead Boys
- Ons Plek Girls
- African Brothers
- Abundant Life
- Childhood Cancer Foundation SA (CHOC)/Imerman Angels
- The Ark
- The Carpenter Shop
- People living with Cancer

Patrick’s Big Fight Cape Town

Patrick Young will be competing in Big Fight Cape Town. A cancer survivor of bone cancer in his jaw, Patrick only began training with East City Boxing six months ago and this will be his first competitive fight. He is fighting to raise awareness of the international one-to-one cancer support charity, Imerman Angels and to raise funds for the Childhood Cancer Foundation South Africa to benefit their residential centre in Cape Town.

At the Start!