Malden couple raffles off comedy tickets in support of charity trip to South Africa

A Malden couple, Sean and Teresa Copson, are heading to South Africa for the third consecutive year this fall – to join up with Ireland-based charity Mellon Educate. The local twosome will be part of a team of hundreds of volunteers who fly to Cape Town from around the world for one week every November.

With preplanning and coordination done by Mellon, “it’s absolutely incredible, the transformation that takes place in one week at schools in some of the poorest townships on the planet,” according to Sean, who is a contractor by trade.

“After one day that first year I was hooked” said Teresa, and “I hope it is a tradition we can keep up, year after year.”

She added, “Everyone works hard for the seven days and it can be quite emotional at times, but the bonds that are made with the other volunteers and the joy that you see on the faces of the children and teachers when the new playground and classrooms are handed over; there is nothing like it. The joy is just addictive.”

In order to help raise the funds needed to go on this worthy project, the Copsons are raffling off two tickets to see Sebastian Maniscalco live at the TD Garden on Saturday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Raffles are $20 each. Drawing will be on Facebook Live on Sunday, September 15 at 1 p.m. Please enter the drawing by purchasing your raffle on their GoFundMe at https://www.gofundme.com/to-improve-schools-in-the-townships-of-cape-town