Cindy is a retired South African teacher, who has just completed restoring an old abandoned farm in Portugal and is returning to her home city of Cape Town. Cindy was involved in education for 40 years and has lived in 13 different countries during her teaching career. In 2010 Cindy drove from Kilimanjaro to Cape Town and back again in an old Pajero with her then 15 year old daughter - a total of 11 000 km! Cindy is committed to making a difference in the world and raising awareness of charities and organisations that do good.

I had a dream to buy an abandoned farm in Portugal and restore it into a working farm. I bought the farm in June 2020, and because of Covid, could only move there in June 2021. After 5 years of living on the farm and investing all my money into it, Portuguese immigration authority finally declined my residency and gave me 20 days to leave the country. They had taken almost 4 years to process my application!