No one would have predicted that what started as a brief visit to Mabutsane in January 2008 would later on see the growth of a thriving sports outreach program for children and youth through out the whole year. After making another trip to Mabutsane in August the same year to conduct a Sports Leadership Workshop for over 50 delegates of different youth clubs from in and around Mabutsane, the Kings Foundation Gaborone team is pleased to have stood with Gloria Tlhalefo Motswagole as she went on to win a Vision 2016 award for her great work at the sports outreach program in Mabutsane.
On 22 & 23 May The KF Gaborone team went out again to Mabutsane to strengthen relations and encourage Gloria’s team who are doing a wonderful job for the children in their area. The Gaborone team were comprised of Oliver, Keba and Clive. Church For all Nations (CFaN) was represented by Richard Okullo and Tsaone Seakgosing and World University Services of Canada (WUSC) was represented by John Rennie, Kathrine Schwenger and Kelly Mitchell who are students from Canada in Botswana at the moment just to be engaged in voluntary work. This combination brought together a team of eight people from different backgrounds but with one passion, “to develop children through sport”.
“Children came in their numbers and we had an exciting time, I thank Kings Foundation for opening up this opportunity for me”, boasted Tsaone.
“It was our first time to go to a Botswana rural area and spending the night in a tent made it even more adventurous, we are grateful for the invitation because we enjoyed working with Oliver and Keba”, echoed John.
Most of the Village came out in full support and we are pleased that this is the right step towards our efforts of helping to build a compassionate, just and caring nation. This is also a good platform for our sports ministry as we preach the gospel through sports. The KF team would like to thank CFaN and WUSC for being a part of the Kings Family and we would still enjoy partnering with different organizations and churches as we now look out to other places like Malotwana, Mahalapye, Ramotswa, Otse, Molepolole, Goodhope and Ghantsi and Botswana as a whole.
