The annual Cableway Charity Problem kicks off this weekend

The annual Cableway Charity Problem will get underway this weekend, 6 Could 2023. Skilled athletes and fewer skilled lovers will compete to stroll to the highest of Desk Mountain as many occasions as they’ll over the course of 9 days.

The JDI Basis is organising this 12 months’s Cableway Charity Problem with the assistance of the Desk Mountain Aerial Cableway Firm.

Every day, athletes can have from dawn to sundown to hike as much as the highest of Platteklip Gorge earlier than taking the cable automotive again down to start the ascent once more.

A particular race day is held as a part of the problem week, with company and faculty groups tackling the gorge.

‘That is the 14th version of the Cableway Problem. The primary occasion in 2009 had 50 runners assist elevate round half one million rand. The Problem grew in leaps and bounds, and final 12 months we had 135 members assist us elevate simply over one million rand,’ says Tracy le Roux, spokesperson for the occasion organiser, The JDI Basis.

This 12 months’s problem will elevate funds for:

Abalimi Bezekhaya (that means ‘farmers of the house’ in isiXhosa) is a non-profit city farming organisation based in 1982 that assists people and teams from deprived Cape City communities by offering facilitation and coaching on natural meals manufacturing for vitamin, well being, meals safety and revenue technology.
Funda Kunye goals to advertise the holistic growth and training of weak younger infants and youngsters within the Hout Bay neighbourhoods of Imizamo Yethu and Hangberg.
Mom Metropolis Kitchen donates mass-produced, nutritious soup and different meals to non-profit organisations in particular impoverished group teams all through Cape City.

‘We had already acquired pledges of greater than R600 000 with lower than every week to go to the occasion. It appears to be like just like the 2023 Cableway Problem can be an enormous success due to the fantastic runners and hikers who maintain displaying their help,’ says Le Roux.