"A hand up, not a hand out."

1. Everest
Foundation

2. The Everest Foundation was established in
order to further the vision of the founder Patrick
R Stapleton and his wife Shannon Dicks-
Stapleton, who over the past 30 years have
participated in a diversity of projects and
ventures into those less fortunate and to further
the purpose statement of “A hand up and not a
hand out”.

3. In the past the Everest Foundation
has been involved and contributed a
variety projects, such as funding
pupils at the Fulton's School for the
deaf. We have contributed to their
yearly boarding and tuition fees. It
has been our privilege to see the
progress that some of these people
have made in society.
www.fulton.org.za
" The school is driven strongly by its Vision of “Excellence in Deaf Education”
and lives by its motto “Intellego et Procedo (I Understand and I Advance)”.
The original Fulton School for the Deaf.

4. We also worked with the Aids Orphanage on the Bluff for babies. This
is a very heart breaking project to be involved with.
www.shepherdskeep.org.za
“little scraps of humanity, often wrapped in nothing but an old blanket or
towel, frightened and hungry, desperately tired and just wanting loving
arms and that bottle of warm milk”

5. We also installed the IT after school learning centre for orphans living in
Makaputu Village.
www.makaphutu.org.za
"Orphans are vulnerable children. If no one intervenes, a vicious cycle is at
work in their lives. But we're here because we believe the orphan cycle
CAN be broken and YOU can help! "

6. We have funded a Romanian Gypsy young lady to study for a full degree to
become a Film Director in Bucharest, today she is one of the leading
documentary film makers in Romania and Hungary.
Our first film director that we sponsored from this university.

7. We have sponsored Mr Bheki Mkize for about 10 years to run the Comrades
Marathon. He have all the medals to show and received his green number,
which he will use for the rest of his live. We have sponsored 2 Two Ocean
Marathons, travel and accommodation to and in Cape Town for him and his
wife.

8. We have build houses for people in Embo Valley and Imbali Township. We
built these houses from the ground up, including inside toilets and bathroom,
with a kitchen with hot and cold water.
Patrick and Shannon with the
Mkize Family.
The house that need rebuilding. The foundation is finished.
Almost finished. Two houses we have painted for the owners

9. Under privilege and poverty are perpetuated when society and communities are not
educated in how to take care of themselves and instead develop the mentality of
relying on others to provide for them. The old adage of “give a man a fish and you
feed him for today – but teach a man to fish and you feed him for life”, really applies
to Africa. Dignity is when we are able to provide for ourselves and our own
communities, based on what we have learnt, coupled with our own abilities and
initiatives. The danger is that we could end up with a ‘lost generation’.
Principles of living for Men.
Without mentorship SA runs the risk of having a lost generation of educated, but
unemployed men in society. Our aim is to make a difference.

10. Currently, most of the world is in a very serious recession. And those feeling it the
most are the young people. Business is therefore not able to even attempt to
absorb most of these young people into the workforce, not with the current
economic growth rates.
Mentor school leavers.
Mentoring young school leavers in how to apply for work and draft attractive CV's
and covering letters.