We finish up in South Africa where the Shumbashaba stables in Diepsloot, Johannesburg is a community development project where horses are helping people reach their potential as spiritual, physical, and emotional beings. What started as a community project has now developed into a full fledged competitive vaulting program where children from Diepsloot Township are competing at national and international levels. Julie Scheier has more.

Riding towards a better future in a township ravaged by poverty, unemployment and crime. Shumbashaba horses - offers a unique educational experience and therapeutic healing. Once a street kid - Bongani Mvumvu is a former world champion equestrian vaulter, and now a Shumbashaba vaulting instructor.

BONGANI MVUMVU VAULTING INSTRUCTOR "Shumbashaba horses means horses helping people and it is all sorts of people you don't have to be disabled, you don't have to be under privileged. It is just horse helping people and it is just our form to help build a bond between animal and human. You know it is a beautiful thing for me because I have been there and I have experienced that. And it is beautiful to see what these four legged animals can do to human spirit."

For most people - Shumbashaba horses offer a life changing experience.

JUSTICE RATAU SOUTH AFRICA JUNIOR VAULTER "I came here on a Saturday and I did not know I was doing vaulting. So I saw the person lunging, I said let me give it a try and see what is going on. I got onto that horse and I did my thing that is how I saw that - Oh - I love being with horses and that is what made me love vaulting."

Justice excelled in equestrian vaulting and went on to represent South Africa at the world junior Duo vaulting championships in Austria. With fellow Diepsloot resident and vaulting partner Siphomandla Moyo they earned a respectable eleventh place.

SIPHAMANDLA MOYO SOUTH AFRICA JUNIOR VAULTER "Vaulting has changed my life for the better it changed my ways of living - now I train and I don't just sit around in the streets and next time I will do better than I did this year."

BONGANI MVUMVU VAULTING INSTRUCTOR "Shumbashaba offers these kids something very-very drastic to what they are used to and we are taking them of the streets - we are taking them off all the drugs - all the house breakings and the crime and for them to be here they learn a lot of value for things - they learn a lot about themselves - they learn a lot about working in a team environment and life itself."

With such talent coming through, Shambashaba horses can look forward to producing many more equestrian vaulters - and one day deliver a world champion from this township. JULIE SCHEIER, CGTN, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.