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Posted on: Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Give a Soccer Ball ...

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Give a Soccer Ball ...

Give a Soccer Ball ...

Now before you skim right past this, we’re not ask­ing for a lot … just a soc­cer ball or two for the young­sters in the Transkei. That’s a R45 dona­tion to put a smile onto the face of a young soccer-wannabe ...

We’ve been fol­low­ing Ruan’s epic jour­ney across South Africa and this week he’s in the Transkei on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape. Yesterday he came across a group of boys play­ing soc­cer in the vil­lage of Lusikisiki and star­ted talk­ing with one of the boys who told him about his dreams of being a soc­cer player. These kids don't have real balls to play with, so ... they make their own soc­cer balls from melted plastic. These "balls" are obvi­ously not really round, you can’t fill them with air or even really kick them because they are filled with plastic. Nonetheless, they play enthu­si­ast­ic­ally with these balls and con­tinue to dream ... dreams of grow­ing up to play the beau­ti­ful game for their beau­ti­ful Country!

There are many, many vil­lages in the Transkei like this, filled with lots of soccer-hungry young­sters. Help us make these boys dreams come true with a small dona­tion. You can donate as little or as much as you like. An inex­pens­ive soc­cer ball costs about R45 — R75, but if you’d like to donate just R5 please do so. We’d like to sup­ply each vil­lage with at least 2 soc­cer balls, but the more the mer­rier … think about your son / nephew / god-child / grand­son … how many soc­cer balls does he have?

To get this star­ted SA-Venues.com has donated R1500 (approx­im­ately 30 soc­cer balls). We hope you’ll help these kids too. Please note all dona­tions will go towards buy­ing soc­cer balls only (no deliv­ery fees, no hid­den charges … just soc­cer balls).

Please email Ruan at ruanpos@gmail.com and tell him if you’re will­ing to make a small dona­tion — Ruan will send you bank­ing details and give you more inform­a­tion on how these balls are being delivered. Please help make these boy’s dreams come true whilst they are still boys ...



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  1. March 7th, 2010 at 16:00
    admin says:

    UPDATE: For any­one that wants to send soc­cer balls — You can do it one of two ways:

    1). Send an actual ball (or two, or three) to Cremorne Estate in Port St Johns who have very kindly agreed to dis­trib­ute balls to the vil­lages (and will make sure each vil­lage gets equal num­ber of balls).
    Mark them for atten­tion:
    Soccer Ball Give Away
    Ruan Smit, c/o Jeanne
    Cremorne Estate
    Ferry Point Road
    Port St Johns, 5120.

    OR:

    2). If thats too much of a mis­sion or you can only afford a few rands towards a ball, con­tact Ruan on ruanpos@gmail.com for details. He will arrange everything.

    Remember, the balls are inex­pens­ive (they are not look­ing for top of the range balls, just nor­mal soc­cer balls that range in price from R45 — R75), so every little bit you can donate will help! Even R5.00 will make a difference.

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