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

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

video of our sports fun day at a local creche

its amazing the relationships that develop from the work we do within the community via our sports outreach, rainbow smiles club and being involved with thembacare, one such relationship led us to put on a simple fundraising event for a creche up in the siteview area of grabouw last saturday morning. 

the leaders of the creche were so impressed with the dedication of our sports outreach programme which we run each monday afternoon near their building,  that they approached us to see if we couldn't help them with organising a sports day for their three to five year olds. 

josh and jasper grasped the opportunity with both hands and set up a wonderful event for the children, over 40 children took part in various games, including an 'egg and spoon' race, a sack race and games involving knocking down bottles of water with a tennis ball. all of the games were designed so that each child participated in every event and as they were split into different teams there were no winners or losers, just lots of happy children.

jasper put together this short video clip of our village of hope team working together, please click on this link and take a moment to watch us in action. thanks goes out to some of our international staff for giving up their time to make this a great event for the kids and supporting the work of this little creche.

  

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