the village of hope seeks to help children infected or affected by hiv, aids and tb in two different ways: we have a 9 bed children's unit to support those infected by hiv and aids and we also run a community-based sports and lifeskills outreach in the informal settlements and squatter camps each afternoon.

this blog has been set up to allow the key members of the team at the village of hope to share their thoughts, photos and experiences as we work in the community of grabouw in south africa

Monday, January 25, 2010

latest sports saturday


last saturday morning we held our latest sports saturday, this is an event organised by daz under the sports outreach and run by village of hope for the children that attend our soccer and netball outreach in the town, we hold it at the elgin country club which is a world away from the communities where these children live.




once again we had over 100 children attend, split into 8 soccer teams, 4 under 15 and 4 under 13, and 4 netball sides......iraq boys won both the u13's and u15's soccer and a team of girls from elgin timbers won the netball....we want to thank our norwiegen volunteer (trondor and gretta) for providing the funds for us to run this event, which included a cool drink and a hot dog to end with...as well as prizes for the winning teams and best player awards.


we thought that you might like to see a couple of photos, one shows arron with his rooidakke team, another some girls playing netball and the last one some of our under 13's boys.






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