Rotary Shares

On Saturday 27th October National Youth Centre (NYC) representatives headed up a sports programme for approximately 300 children at their facilities in G-West. The programme was in partnership with The King’s Foundation but planning of the event was in the hands of John Kahindi (NYC). It is encouraging for us to see individuals like John start to initiate and organize such events on their own. It is also exciting to see the King’s Community respond to invitations to assist in such initiatives. Twenty strong pitched up Saturday morning to lead the children in games, sports skills, team chants, drama etc.

A huge thank you to Rotary Club Gaborone for their donation of 400 tennis balls before we began the progamme. Sports equipment is one of our largest reoccurring costs so we are very thankful for Rotary Club’s generosity and support of our community outreach programmes.

The days’ events consisted of: parachute games, relay races and colouring for the under 6s and football, benchball, scatch, hockey, danish longball, volleyball, cricket, tag rugby and basketball for the older ones. After a short break Oliver and Glow lead the group in AWANA and then a sit down programme where the children learnt the importance of helping out people in need. Jesus says the way you treat other people is the way you treat him. We looked at Matt 25 where Jesus says, “I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink…whatever you did for the least of these my brothers you did it for me.”

Click on the pictures link on the right to see photos from this event.

King’s Basketball

This past Saturday marked the beginning of “King’s Basketball” in Gaborone. Despite poor weather (overcast and cold) the inaugural session was well attended.

King’s Basketball is an extension of our King’s Camps holiday programme. Weekly sessions will run every Saturday morning until December from 0800-1000hrs at Northside Primary School for standard 6 & 7 students. As the name suggests, the programme focuses on developing basketball specific skills. As is the case with all King’s Camps activities, children will be lead by quality coaches and will have a lot of fun!

Click the following link to read more about the programme: King’s Basketball

Contact Matt (72954777) with any inquiries.

~ Special thanks to Jay Brandsma for assisting with King’s Basketball designs and for Athletes in Action Canada for their donation of basketballs ~

December King’s Camps

Upcoming King’s Camps dates have been confirmed:

10th – 14th December: Northside School in Gaborone

10th – 14th December: Clifton School in Francistown

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Web: http://botswana.kingscamps.org

Email: botswana@kingscamps.org

Tel: 72537638 for Gaborone

Tel: 72716538 for Francistown

Weekly Francistown Programmes

The King’s Foundation is active almost every day of the week in Francistown thanks to Darius Chiseni and various committed volunteers. Click on the following link to read an article that will appear in this weeks Northern Advertiser: Weekly Programmes

Please contact Darius (71492152) to support / get involved.

Touch Rugby

This past weekend the “King’s Community” got together for their quarterly social in Gaborone. A special thanks to Thornhill Primary School for allowing King’s Foundation to use their facilities. As follow-up to the recent rugby coaching session those in attendance participated in a touch rugby tournament. Zee, from the Botswana Rugby Union, once again graced us with his presence and oversaw the rugby drills followed by the games. Touch Rugby is clearly becoming a “community” favorite as individuals were quick to enquire when the next Rugby activities would be. Click here to see pictures from the event.