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Team South Africa shines in Alexandra

posted by Paul Kelly on July 9th, 2010

The second week of the Football for Hope Festival is the Football Tournament where 32 delegations from all over the world compete against each other and promote FIFA Fair Play Principles. After losing their first game against a very strong Diambars Team from Senegal, Team South Africa won four of the next six games and have qualified to compete for the Football for Hope Cup. Congratulations !!!

The tournament is played in a way that promotes FIFA′s Fair Play Principles. Each game is divided into three halves. The first half is a pre game mediation session where teams meet and agree on the rules for the game. In the second half, the teams compete in a 12-minute game which is self-refereed. When a foul is committed, the players raise their hands, and jointly agree on a fair decision. In the third half, the teams meet again to discuss if the rules that were agreed to before the game were adhered to. Each team has the opportunity to award the opposition an extra point for fair play if they they believe the game was played fairly. So far, Team South Africa has received a fair play point in each of their games -- well done boys and girls.

The team has two more group stage games today before the knockout stages tomorrow. Good luck and continue to play in the spirit of fair play.

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WKU Site visit in Eastern Cape

posted by Paul Kelly on March 7th, 2010

Tom and I went on a whistlestop tour of the Eastern Cape last week to visit different sites for a potential roll out of the WhizzKids United programme in two new areas, Port Elizabeth and Canzibe.

We flew into East London on Wednesday, March 3, to meet with Dr. Paul Cromhout at the Small Projects Foundation. They would like to offer their local knowledge and expertise to help us get the programme started. SPF already partner with our programme funders in Rustenburg, One to One Childrens Fund (O2O).

The following day we drove to Dora Nginza Hospital in Port Elizabeth to discuss the programme with Nonkosi Dlalasi and Cheeky Zonto, who are both based at Dora Nginza Hospital, and work for O2O.

On Friday, we drove five hours to Canzibe, a rural area in the Transkei, and met with Alice Klaarveld, a who also works for SPF and is based at Canzibe Hospital.

We then took a treacherous and bumpy two hour drive down to the coast and spent the night in Coffee Bay. In the morning, I went for a surf while Tom took a relaxing hike along the cliffs, before we drove back to Durban arriving in time for Marcus′ birthday party that night. Happy Birthday Marcus !!!

All in all, we are very excited about the outcomes of the site visit and met some truly exceptional people that could make the programme a success in the targeted areas. We would like to thank One to One Childrens Fund, who funded the trip, and everyone who we met along the way.

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