Cheryl-Dene Spring
President & Co-Founder
Cheryl-Dene is an attorney, entrepreneur, business owner and philanthropist in Florida, U.S.A.
Born and raised in South Africa, Cheryl-Dene came to the U.S. at the age of 18 with a keen passion and determination for success. Prior to her journey to America, Cheryl-Dene spent several years in an orphanage and group home for children located in Pretoria. It is here that she decided to dedicate her life to children placed in similar orphanages.
In 2015 she founded Project Change – a grassroots organization dedicated to woman and children who are victims of war and physical/sexual abuse.
Some of the subtle but imperative changes she has implemented are ensuring siblings are not separated; changing the names of orphanages to names that inspire, and ensuring every child has access to education and clean water. Cheryl-Dene continues to draw on her own life experiences to inspire lasting and sustainable changes.
Anne Reinstein
Vice President & Board Member
Anne Reinstein, CPA, is a tax accountant in private practice in the South Florida area since 2000.
Through her travels to third world countries, she has become an advocate for charitable causes that benefit children in the community and abroad.
In addition to her support to local charities and working as an animal advocate, she has spent time in India volunteering as an English educator and sponsors a children’s orphanage in her native Peru.
Alex John
African Ambassador
Alex John was born and raised in Arusha, Tanzania, to a mother who faced many financial and social difficulties, due to her husband’s desertion. His father was the main bread winner, so after his departure the family fell on very hard times. Alex had to quit school at a very young age to begin his new life’s journey – a mountain porter for Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He was just 17, but this was his only way to support himself and his mother. self and his mother.
After two years of being a porter, Alex saved enough money to enroll in his first ‘Tour Guide Class’, and after another 2 years he became an assistant guide on the Mountain. In 2006, he had a chance meeting with Anne Reinstein, who was so impressed with him that she sponsored him to take his higher outdoor leadership and wildlife management course at Mweka College (CAWM) and later in Sweden to further his studies. Not only is Alex now a mountain and safari guide in East Africa, but he is also Vice Chairman of the Kilimanjaro Guides Association, which ensure the mountain guides and porters have rights. Alex has also always volunteered his time, spending it with orphans, helping them with the little things they need, and sharing his food with street children of Arusha and Moshi, the town he spent so much time in.
Alex has always dreamed of providing assistance to the kids in communities that he grew up in, and has now joined Project Change as our African Ambassador spreading the word globally.
Lauren Britz
