Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Children with disabilities - 
Employability - 
Environmental protection - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal development
Access to Sport - Children with disabilities - Employability - Environmental protection - Gender Equality - Healthy lifestyle - Personal developmentContext
Gansbaai, like other semi-rural areas in South Africa, struggles with youth unemployment, resulting in limited opportunities and a pervasive lack of hope among young people.
The situation is compounded by a number of challenges typical of disadvantaged communities: elevated school drop-out rates, poor public transport, gender-based violence, alcoholism, drug use, high levels of depression and other socio-economic pressures.
Project goals
- Offer an engaging, fun sports programme during and after school to ensure that children and teenagers have a safe place to go, accompanied by trained adult coaches (target: 3,000 children)
- Teach mental health and coping skills, menstrual health, gender-based violence awareness, HIV/AIDS awareness, wildlife conservation and nutritional health to support the local schools’ educational programmes, giving children hope and encouraging them to persevere with formal education
- Deliver inclusive programmes to people of all ethnicities, ages, genders and abilities to ensure no one is left behind
- Ensure awareness of nature and encourage conservation efforts
- Help young people pursue careers and achieve financial stability to reduce dependence on state aid
Project content
- In-school programme: physical education projects in 10 schools, and assistance with subject choice and career planning for teenagers
- After-school multi-sport coaching: football, netball, hockey, girls' rugby, cross-country running, athletics, water safety, surfing, canoeing, gross motor skills for early childhood, adapted games for young people with special needs
- Four holiday programmes a year
- Tournaments and competitions
- Mental health projects using surf therapy
- Ocean and land conservation programmes
- Awareness projects that use football to address gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS
- Menstrual health/sanitary pad project
- Rising stars project offering elite sporting opportunities
- Training modules for coaching staff
Partners
