In September we welcomed a new coach to the Team at Helderberg Academy, all the way from England. Bethany is 24, from Surrey in the South of England, where she has played football/soccer since she was 10 and where she studied a National Diploma in Sport, covering many aspects of sport and coaching. Bethany is passionate about sports and has worked as a Youth Leader for 8 years, as well as doing a small amount of coaching at Primary...
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Training has been in full swing in all three communities and numbers are increasing. Our Lwandle boys had a match against another NGO which was a nice social game, due to other oher team not having enough numbers we mixed up the teams. We also supported a touch rugby event in Macassar on youth day, where our boys came second. Holiday Club During the July holidays we ran a two day Holiday Club. On both days we ran the same...
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During the March holidays, we had a two day holiday club, where we saw a total of 67 young people, both girls and boys from three different communities. We were coaching the life skill of awareness through kick boxing, golf and ultimate Frisbee. As with all of our holiday clubs this is an opportunity for our young people to grow better inter community relationships and have an opportunity to have coaching in sports...
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During the holidays, we did home visits in all three communities to meet parents of new member and to look at our players school reports, to see how we can help them more off the field. This is also a time for us to encourage them in their academics and empower them, in what they want to be in the future. One of the mothers in Sir Lowry’s Pass testified of how her son has changed over the last two years since he’s...
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Since January the Helderberg Academy has started up in full swing, we have netball with the girls weekly in Sir Lowrys Pass and Macassar. Then weekly rugby in Sir Lowrys Pass and Macassar with the boys and mentoring and soccer training in Lwandle. The new year has bought a change in our coaching staff, we sadly had to say goodbye to Dave Bell and Esther Slieker as they returned to their home countries. But warmly...
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This is the final week at the Helderberg Academy for 2015, so we have taken all three of our communities to the beach. Whilst we were there we played a variety of team games and the young people all enjoyed swimming as it was very hot weather. Due to generous donations of clothes and stationary throughout the year we were able to give each of our young people a Christmas present, with which they were extremely pleased. All the young...
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