The Be the Difference Foundation has received a R123 000 boost from GrandWest which will provide much needed sports apparel and training equipment.
The Foundation’s CEO Granthem Abrahams says, “By being the proactive difference within our communities, our hope is that we will enable positive change.”
Abrahams explains that the aim of the programme is to create a platform for youth from the community to showcase their talent. The programme creates opportunities for them to not only become better players, but also better leaders, “we are striving to create student athlete identities where kids perform on and off the field.”
The Foundation was founded in Kraaifontein in 2014, and today it runs three separate socio-economic programmes focused on nutritional development, educational development and development through sport. The Petunia Primary School in the Scottdene area of Kraaifontein provides the base for the sports and nutritional programmes.
GrandWest General Manager Mervyn Naidoo was at the handover in Scottdene, “GrandWest fully supports the work that the Foundation is doing. Sport is a great unifier as we have just witnessed with the Olympic Games in Paris. The beneficiaries of the equipment we have handed over today could well be South Africa’s future Olympians who inspire new generations of youngsters to dare to dream.”
The Foundation received rugby and netball equipment, tackle bags and shields, team sports kits for training and away games, junior 25L sports bags and rugby boots.
