On the 12th & 13th of April we held an Easter Holiday Club for our young people from the Academy, aged between 8-16 years old, focusing on the Easter Story. This was an opportunity to get all our young people together from the different communities and also as a reward for the best attendance for the past term. We had a fantastic time with the young people, 8 girls from Macassar and 13 girls from Sir Lowry’s Pass on the Wednesday...
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My name is Dyllan, I’m from Macassar. I used to abuse alcohol and drugs and my life was going nowhere. In 2012 I met Beth from the U.K who runs the Helderberg Academy. She invited me and a few friends to join the Academy while we were still living in a bad way. I was part of the Academy for 3-4 years, and while I was there I learned not just how to play rugby but also lots of character skills to help me in my personal life. Then I...
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Last week myself (Beth) and Llewellyn were lucky enough to get invited to go and coach rugby on behalf of the Helderberg Academy in Egypt. Women’s rugby is in the early stages of development there and so we coached life skills through rugby, fitness and kick boxing over a weekend training camp. There were three teams represented from the 4 total in Cairo and the surrounding areas, and they were very grateful to have us there and...
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The Academy is back up and running after a short break over Christmas and we have started strong. It has been great to see all the kids coming back enthusiastic and ready for a new year at the Academy and we are already consistantly seeing between 80-100 kids each week. It has been full throttle since we started on the 10th January with sign ups, planning for the term and preperations for having a new team of coaches. We welcomed back...
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What a year! It’s been busy but we have made it to December with nothing let to do but celebrate all we have done and achieved together. During our last week of term we celebrated another amazing year at the Academy by taking groups of our kids from all our communities to the beach for some fun and games. We spent 2 days at the beach, taking our Lwandle soccer boys along with our Sir Lowry’s Pass rubgy boys on Tuesday and...
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It has been an exciting few weeks with it being holidays in South Africa. We started the holidays with a two day holiday club for all three communities. Over the two days we used rounders, frisbee and handball to teach the young people about creation and that they were made for a purpose. 58 young people attended the two days. It was a great time of learning new sports and building relationships with young people from different...
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