On a recent tour of the Shangaan village, Mr Peter Evans from Australia, a loyal visitor to Savanna, recognised a serious need for assistance at the local high school.

On his return to Australia he rallied the support of the Glenunga International High School in Adelaide and the students raised funds to purchase 10 computers, a large screen television and a DVD/VHS player. They also funded additional telephone lines into the school and commissioned the services of Softnet to install Internet lines.

Seventeen students and four teachers, including the headmaster of Glenunga International arrived in South Africa in November to spend a week at Savanna to present these gifts to the Iain Mackenzie High School. In addition, the students offered their services daily to the school to give workshops on IT and programming. In December, a group of 20 Penryn (a local private school near Nelspruit) students travelled to the Iain Mackenzie High School to join their peers in a fun-filled, community service day. Together, all the students helped plant 10 new indigenous trees and a vegetable garden and painted the school walls in brightly coloured squares.  All visiting students signed their names.