The Kings Foundation would like to thank Game Stores and Bull & Bush for providing gift vouchers and meal vouchers respectively for the Gaborone based core volunteer team. This team comprises of “out of school” youths and college students that have a heart to give back to society especially in a way that benefits children and young people. The team was challenged to shop for P200 worth of goods in Game store in less than 30 seconds.

“People need to know that when you volunteer your time to an organization, you are not only giving but you are also gaining much as well. You gain skills, experience and good character attributes among other things”, said Trish Dugan from Baylor Clinic.

The Kings Foundation would like to invite any people interested in volunteering their time to help in bettering the lives of Batswana children and young people through sports. Call our head office and speak to the Outreach Coordinator.

The King’s Foundation was invited to minister to the youth in I.H.S. scripture union. The union was welcoming first years and we were given a platform to preach on purity and abstinence . Present was Apostle Kajinga who is also in charge on the Scripture Union in I.H.S and is pasturing a church called Restoration. Community Church was also present who were invited to lead praise and worship.

Darius Chiseni preached on valuing ourselves as a people and being confident in who we are that we may not be taken advantage off by any one. The message was centred on caring for ourselves.

The King’s Foundation was invited by Baptist Church Francistown to come and reach out to the youth of Baptists Church Botswana. This was a 5 day camp but we were able to avail ourselves to them on the 21^st and 22^nd of August 2009. On the 21^st we were given a platform to speak to the youth on HIV/AIDS and purity. We started off with introductions and ice breakers by Shepherd and which were followed by a talk session for an hour which was facilitated by both Julia and Darius. We were granted more time to speak so for the next 30min we had group discussions where we gave the youth scenario’s and asked them what they would do to best get out of the situation without endangering themselves. The discussions were facilitated by the full team (Darius, Shepherd, Julia, and Bazwadzi).

The youth were responsive and I believe they were impacted by the message shared. The following day we were asked to facilitate sports session with the youth. This started at 14h00 and ended at 17h00, which is when we then left the camp site. On those two (2) days we we’re able to reach to 107 youth and 5 leaders

As the King’s Foundation Francistown, we would like to thank you for you support on our new initiative in encouraging the youth to abstain from sex. We would like to give you feedback on the activities that we’ve had so far and up coming events.

Treasure Hunt Competition

On the 15^th of August 2009 we had a treasure hunt competition. Invitations were sent out to different churches and a deadline was given to confirm participation. Seven Churches confirmed their participation; PHC, Baptist Church, Community Church, Glorious Hope Ministry, Anglican Church, Restoration Church, and The Rock.

The meeting place was Nswazi Shopping Complex where we started off with praise and worship which was followed by a talk on abstinence. The theme of the Treasure Hunt; “Knowing who God has made you to be-Fighting HIV/AIDS, was aimed at giving statistics on the HIV/AIDS rate in Botswana and in Francistown, and but most importantly, letting the youth know that knowing who they are is knowing Christ. Using Nswazi Shopping Centre was also a way to let the public hear that there is a better way to defeat HIV/AIDS, which is through abstinence until marriage.

The participant were excited and enjoyed themselves as in King’s Foundation, everyone is a winner. The event was made possible by you, once again thank you.

King’s Cup

King’s cup which has been an ongoing and successful annual event is coming soon; 29^th August 2009 at the Mater Spei grounds. Letters are being sent out to the churches and a response will be required by the 24^th August 2009.

In a response to a request the Kings Foundation team travelled to the mine town of Jwaneng, about 200km northwest of Gaborone to do some sports activities for foster families of orphaned children of Mpule Kwelagobe center. In the past..READ MORE

The Kings foundation once again sent another colourful team on an outreach trip to Mahalapye district. They were scheduled to do sports outreach camps for children in the villages of Shoshong and Sefare which are both between 60 to 75 km from Mahalapye centre. In that colourful team were volunteers from.. READ MORE

Sambiri Botswana added yet another milestone of achievements to its purse this weekend when they ran a second successive computer training for charitable organizations this Saturday 11 July 2009 at their offices in Commerce Park Gaborone. A well attended course left the participants eager to go and use their skills that would in-turn benefit the often marginalized children of society. The Kings Foundation would like to thank Sambiri Botswana’s managing director Mr Tonderayi G Usada for his continued support to their mission and this has seen even KF’s partners like I am Special Education Society benefiting from such relationships.

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One of the fastest growing players in Botswana’s Computer Consultancy Industry- Sambiri Botswana have committed themselves to giving back to the community. With over 30% of Africa’s population still yet to see a computer and over 50% being computer illiterate, Sambiri Botswana are starting the battle against such statistics and their point of entry being the areas that need computer literacy the most.

This past weekend of the 20^th of June Sambiri’s Managing Director Mr Tonderayi G Usada ran a full day course of Basic Information technology to about 10 delegates form two charity Organizations I am special education society and The Kings Foundation, here in Gaborone. The course took the delegates on journey through basic understanding of the common called desktop and all its clicks.

“When I came here I did not even know how to click and what exactly that meant”, said Fatima Ndogwedi one of the overjoyed delegates.

“Now I have a different understanding of the computer and thank you Mr Usada for really breaking everything down to our level”, she added.

“We would even want another course to learn more about Microsoft Word and Excel”, pleaded Kebaeditse Ramooki and Emily Chibale of The Kings Foundation.

I am Special Education Society is a local school in Tlokweng for children with conditions like Downs syndrome, Autism, Celebral palsy, Dyslexia, ADD and other Developmental Delays. When the staffs from such schools become aware of how to use the computers, they can take some of these skills back to even introduce computer lessons for their children.

The Kings Foundation team will definitely benefit from this course because as they gear up to impact Botswana and even surrounding countries they need a well organized administration to be complimenting their well known prowess on the sport fields.

The Kings Foundation would like to thank Mr Tonderayi Usada and his team for putting together such a valuable course for organizations that otherwise would not have managed to be trained If they were to pay for such workshops. This is a bold step by Sambiri Botswana towards building an Educated and Informed Nation by 2016. Click here to read more about Sambiri Botswana.

From Cape to Cairo, Africa was in one accord celebrating the day of the African child this past Tuesday on 16 June. Oliver Muchazviona, Tapologo Botsalano Mogapi, Kebaeditse Ramooki and Farai Bobo represented The Kings Foundation Botswana (KF) and joined The Jwaneng Town Council and the Nation of Botswana in Jwaneng to celebrate this historic day for Africa as a whole. Joining this team was Kgomotso Monageng from Lifeline Botswana, Roger Ryan from Burners beyond Borders [from San Fransisco USA], Prentiss Darden from Baylor Clinic, Patience N Katsamba and Nicolet from The Faith Foundation.

The Minister of Local Government Honourable Ambrose Masalila opened the event with a speech and from then on children from Jwaneng Primary School, Dinonyane Primary School, and Broad Vision day Care centre among others graced the event with dramas, debates and Traditional dancing which were all in line with this year’s theme of “Children Fit for Africa”.

The Jwaneng Town Club was colourful with a cocktail of different people representing their organizations from all over Botswana and this created an atmosphere for networking and connecting as some organizations set up stalls to showcase their work and how it benefits the children of Botswana and contributes towards Vision 2016.

Afterwards The Kings Foundations’ contingent passed through Mpule kwelagobe orphanage to meet with their Coordinator Mma Mogasha and they were led to meet some of the Foster families staying there.  John, who was just about 6 months old, won the ladies hearts when they heard that he was abandoned when he was just 5 weeks old.

“We really appreciate your love and responsibility that you show when you check on us each time you are in Jwaneng’, opened up Mma Mogasha.

“We are planning a sponsored walk on 27 July 2009 trusting that we will be able to raise funds to renovate some of our homes that have leaking roofs and we would appreciate you joining us”, she added.

The event went well and seeing the African child being given the platform to perform at the event summed up Botswana’s attempt to really put the Motswana child first.

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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.