Kalahari Experience – Jake

The Kalahari Experience is a service project initiated by Frankfurt International School (FIS). Since 1991 teams of people have been working with the Tswana people in the Moshaweng Valley in South Africa. The Kalahari Experience is currently managed by Ambrose Kelly OAM, the Director of The Kalahari Experience at FIS.

The Moshaweng Valley is an isolated area in the Kalahari Desert approximately 100 kilometres north of Kuruman. Most of the 10 villages in the Moshaweng Valley are accessible only by unpaved road. Many of the people in this area are not original residents, but were “displaced” during apartheid. They were sent to this semi-desert area that is now home to approximately 30,000 people. It is one of the poorest areas in South Africa.