Project Description

THE MISSION

Using sport as a tool to deliver life skills that enable young people to shape their own future.

Sport has an impact on the physical and mental health of everybody. Posture, strength, and endurance are equally important as school education. Being able to do different kinds of sports promotes social skills such as teamwork, fairness, and tolerance. Coping with losing a game prepares kids for the future as well as winning it. The sports development program combines different initiatives using various sports to empower kids to try out new things, learn how to interact with each other, and to strengthen their self-control. Therefore the program makes a meaningful difference in the life of children.

THE STORY

Every child – no matter where it comes from deserves the best education and support it can get. Unfortunately, not everyone is born in a country where mental education, health systems, or even sports education can be taken for granted. In these countries, education is only accessible for kids with a wealthy background. Dealing with poverty, a high crime rate, teenage pregnancies, as well as many other obstacles education is not affordable or even possible. This builds a barrier for most of the population which isn’t easy to cross.

We envision a world without barriers. A place for kids where education comes first, no matter their background. With passion and hope for a better future, we create different learning opportunities. Classes, sports education, IT knowledge and mentoring help children find their path for the future. Volunteers spend their time making a difference in the lives of countless children by participating to realize the vision.

But change doesn’t come overnight. Looking for the best way to improve the life of every kid means to create more opportunities, more activities more experiences. But we can’t do it alone.
Every donation helps to fund new projects, that will change the lives of many.

WHERE?

The Programm is situated in Lavender Hill, Kapstadt. Right now, Lavender hill is a place of hope, yet little opportunity.

Those from low-income families struggle to get a quality education. Therefore, not many young people dare to dream about a future involving attending a university and to better their family’s lives.

For this reason, an often broken journey through school, interrupted by different obstacles like irregular attendance, teenage pregnancy or violence are the normality of Lavender Hill.

This leads to an unsafe environment full of gang violence, which makes it even harder to concentrate on school and education. And the vicious cycle continues.

We strive to break this cycle by starting to teach the importance of education and giving, little by little, more children the chance to grow.

UPCOMING PROJECTS

What could your donation do?

Provide Equipment

Trough providing schools and local pubs with sports equipment we give kids the chance to do and learn new sports.

Guided Activities

Volunteers provide physical education and extra-curricular sport to local schools.

Infrastructure

To build a sports field for the Community of Vrygrond and provide a safe environment for the youth to meet and do sports together it the long term goal of sports development.

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