Category Archives: Soccer
Big Screen in the township
As most people can’t get to the nearest Public Viewing Area over 10 miles away – we have facilitated a local Big Screen which has been a tremendous success.
South Africa – World Cup 2010
Most kids can’t afford to buy tickets or even make it to the nearest fan park over 10 miles away – so we have brought the world cup to them. On 11th June we took hundreds of kids with us to the opening match in cape town’s new Green Point stadium. It will be a [...]
Drugs – a real problem!
As with many poverty stricken communities there are acute problems with the abuse of alchohol and drugs.
High levels of crime and violence together with high rates of teenage pregnancy are all results of this.
In October our football league helped to organise a march against drugs around the whole community to communicate that we want a [...]
Boys Toys!
The school where we carry out much of our football program has a football pitch that has been overrun by giant weeds and plants. It has meant we have been unable to play on the pitch for more than a year, despite requests for help to many companies and other organisations.
During the xenophobia troubles Andy [...]
Come on England!
September also saw another football tournament as the season drew to a close. It was attended by over 300 boys from all parts of The Helderberg.
Once again England put on a good show but didn’t quite manage to take the trophy. We will be continuing with our football and lifeskills program (uBabalo) during the closed [...]
Football Fever
With the Africa Cup of Nations taking place during January & February, there is plenty of football fever around. Sadly South Africa (Bafana Bafana) didn’t make it past the qualifying group stages. Who knows, maybe one of these youngsters maybe a rising star!
Soccer
The soccer project is still going well. We are still challenged by the inconsistency of the coaches in attendance. The unemployed coaches get jobs (which is great) but we then lose them and all of the relationship that they have built with the kids. We are now trying another method to attract coaches who are [...]
