Talented young shearer needs equipment

I am a 18-year-old scholar attending Boland High Agricultural School in Paarl.  I qualified for the first time to represent the Western Province at the SA shearing championships in Bloemfontein during 2023 and finished 2nd in the scholar shearing category. I again qualified in February 2025 to represent the Western Province at the SA championships in Bloemfontein.  Unfortunately, I cannot practice sheep shearing as it has a commercial value for adults and would mean that the shearer who gives me his equipment for the day would have a loss of income or damage to his equipment.  I qualified to participate at the SA championships by only being able to shear a few sheep.  I would like to be able to participate in the SA championships at the same level as my opponents, but to achieve this I will need equipment to train with and shear with on the day of the championships.  We have to travel to Bloemfontein at our own expense and pay for the accommodation ourselves.  My passion is shearing and working with livestock.  I am planning to pursue a BSc degre...