Stand a chance to win with Bush Babes
MELVILLE – Over the years, a local project has morphed into a huge drive to empower women and give them a safe place to belong to outside of their normal family lives.
Readers have a chance to win great prices with a local project by Melville resident Leilani Basson.
Basson is the founder of Bush Babes.
The Bush Babes Land Rover Defender, called the Babe Mobile, is wrapped in orange and zainy zebra stripes. Readers in the area must spot the Babe Mobile, take a picture of it and post it on the Bush Babes Adventure and Safari Club Facebook page. The lucky ‘spotter’ will win an authentic hi-lift jack plus a free weekend courtesy of Weekend Warrior.
If it is a man who spots and posts, he can keep the jack and give the weekend away to a woman friend.
The Bush Babes initiative was born in October 2010. Basson, then a photo journalist for Leisure Wheels magazine, invited six women, ‘typical girlie girls’ on a weekend away for an article she needed to do for a client.
This was to be the first in a series of articles about these women learning the ‘ropes’ of off-roading and camping.
“Most of these women have never driven a 4×4, was not exactly the adventurous type and have never gone away without their husbands and children.
Also, all the women I met were extremely intimidated by their husbands when it came to driving their 4x4s. We decided to change that, empower the mommy in the house and teach her how to drive so she can handle the family 4×4 as well as she handles her man,” said Basson.
According to Basson, with Bush Babes, women can either really be themselves for the first time, or they can reinvent themselves and be who they always wanted to be.
Charity work is in the hearts of the Bush Babes.
“We usually do one animal and two children’s outreaches per year.”
Bush Babes have also done an outreach to the wild horses of Kaapsehoop where they were involved in a census to document all of them and managed to collect a quite a donation for them.
“Last year we erected three vegetable tunnels at an orphanage in Hammanskraal and held a Christmas Party in Groblersburg for an aids orphanage.”
