27 May 2026 · USC
Why we built USC
The talent on this coast is not the problem. The cost of getting to a contest is. Here is what we are doing about it.
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UMZUMBE
SURF CLUB
We back kids who love the ocean onto boards they can call their own — and onto contests they have earned the right to surf. Khanya is sixteen. He just qualified for J-Bay. He needs to be on the plane on the 8th.
Right now
The campaign that ships this month
Every donation transfers to a ringfenced account in the surfer's name. We publish the receipts. No middleman, no admin fee.
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Khanya → Jay Bay
Funds go to Khanya Mthembu, ringfenced.
36 days left
Khanya qualified. The trip is R45,000. Every rand goes to him directly. He needs to be in Jeffreys Bay on the 14th.
R12 400
of R45 000 goal · 28% funded
Why USC exists
“We get kids who love the ocean onto boards they can call their own — and to contests they have earned the right to surf.”
Umzumbe is a stretch of KwaZulu-Natal coastline where the swell shows up clean almost every week of the year. The local kids see it. They watch it pump from the road on the way to school. Some of them want to surf it.
The hard part is not the talent. It is everything else. A second-hand 6'0" costs more than a month of groceries. A wetsuit costs more than a school uniform. A trip to J-Bay or Cape St Francis for a regional contest — flights, accommodation, entry, coach — is out of reach without help.
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FUND A SURFER.
R200 buys a leash. R3,200 buys a winter wetsuit. R8,000 puts a contest board under a kid's arm. R45,000 puts Khanya on the plane to J-Bay.