AUSSIE ANGEL

Lou Billet is an Australian who settled in South Africa in 2003 after travelling through the Wild Coast. She later started African Angels, a NGO dedicated to educating the underprivileged children of the region. She left a banking career in Australia to travel around the world. She spnt five months in India, then travelled through East Africa and ended up in South Africa in December 2003. After exploring the Wild Coast and staying in Chintsa for a while, she decided to stay. She started African Angels with Tracy King of the King’s Playschool in Glen Eden. The charity provides an opportunity for very poor children to receive a high quality education from preschool to matric. Finding sponsors is always a challenge. About half the sponsors are from overseas, and half from South Africa. On weekends, Lou runs her restaurant, the Country Bumpkin, in Chintsa East.