The Hope-4-Kids, a non-profit organisation from Gqeberha, supports the realisation of dreams and aspirations of young, underprivileged children at a netball tournament in the city.
As part of the tournament, the kids will also be able to rub shoulders with Netball royalty, such as Zanela Mdodana, assistant Protea coach and captain of EC Aloes, Noluthanto Maliehe, who are in attendance. The tournament also aims to bring back the love for sport amongst communities.
A tournament to unearth talent that sometimes goes unnoticed. Poor facilities and a lack of resources are often barriers to success for these young players. Barriers a tournament like this hopes to break down.
The founder of Hope-4-Kids, Linda Msila, says the main purpose of the tournament is to bring the love of the sport back into the communities and try and keep the kids busy during weekends to combat crime and substance abuse.
We want to bring the kids from the townships to come explore playing at other facilities because theyre in the townships we dont have facilities. First of all, then he bring the kids to this venue and creating a dream team, a dream team that will take these kids and play against the model C schools of Port Elizabeth, and theyre hoping that by us going to those schools, these kids will get a chance to get opportunities.
