The party and festive season is upon us! Whooohoo! But we have to be responsible when it comes to looking after our bodies, and those of others. Who would have thought that the planets smallest and most diverse floral kingdom would help reduce fatalities on our highways and byways. Stretching over an area of 55000sq kilometres in the fairest Cape of the world, this unique area is the home to more species of plants than the whole of the British Isles. The winter - summer transformation varies from semi-arid deserts in the northern Cape to carpets of colours in the spring particularly after the first rains. Now ethno-botanists are discovering the suprising benefits of
Calendar Girls Project – know your worth.

The Project This version of Calendar Girls was inspired by the movie of the same name about 6 months ago. The message carried in the movie highlighted the fact that beauty and worth knows no age limits. Taking that point a bit further we realized that beauty and worth mean different things to different people. For every model featured in glamour magazines or on the catwalks across the world, there are dozens of women who in their own right are beautiful and talented. The women who have volunteered to appear in this version of Calendar Girls are the women you will find all around you. They are the women who make the world work. A number of them have suffered abuse, either physical or emotional. By volunteering to be a part of















