soccer balls supa quick!

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the water shortage in cape town!

over the last few years we have been blessed with a constant supply of soccer balls, we have received them from various different sources, FNB (first national bank), BP (petrol station) and various donations from volunteers, this has meant that we have never been in desperate need. however with around 150 children benefiting from our sports outreach programme each week we do tend to need a huge amount of balls, especially if we are doing drills where each child has their own ball. with that and the fact that we do like to bless our most regular kids with a ball that they can play with on the days we aren't in their area, so our 'stocks' tend to deplete very quickly.

at the back end of last month we were discussing whether we needed to set aside some of our cash to go and purchase some balls from the local sports shop to restock our bags but as i was buying some tyres from the local supa quick in grabouw i got chatting with the manager there about how they could help us as we seek to support those infected or affected by HIV, AIDS and TB, he quickly got on to the area manager and within a few weeks had called to say that they had some balls to donate to us.

last monday willie and his family made a visit to the village of hope project to hand out the balls, which we will use in the local community in our training sessions and he also handed out some goody bags to the kids who live with us in the children's unit, the story made the front page of the elgin grabouwer, which you can view by clicking on the image.

thanks willie and the supaquick grabouw team.