There are two lovely new additions to our sports programme at the Gansbaai Sports Centre: Lena Jacobi and Hannah Pehle from Germany. Lena and Hannah joined the Football Foundation/Grootbos Foundation’s hockey project and will be coaching at the centre for the next 3 months.
Lena plays for the National German Women’s Hockey Team and Hannah for the u/21 German Women’s Hockey Team. Both of them play for the club ‘Rüsselsheimer RK’ in Germany. Lena is from Mainz and has finished her Bachelor studies in Aviation Management; Hannah is from Darmstadt and finished secondary school this year. Lena first came to know of the project through Michael Lutzeyer who invited the German Women’s Team out to Grootbos when they were playing in South Africa in January this year.
Welcome girls, its great to have such enthusiastic and skillful people on the team!
Training takes place Tuesdays & Thursdays 15:00 - 16:30 at the Gansbaai Sports Centre, children of all ages and schools are welcome. Contact: aneen@footballfoundation.co.za
led by the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Derek Hanekom, who had the honour of cutting the carrot ribbon and opening the project.
We celebrated the lives of 3 extraordinary South African women with a presentation for the children. “Mama Africa” was presented by our own passionate women Leán. The kids sang along heartily to Makeba’s famous “The Click Song”. One of South Africa’s most successful sportswomen, Penny Heyns, was introduced next: She won two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Atlanta and broke 14 world records in her extraordinary career as one of the world’s best breaststrokers. In the arts arena it was Charlize Theron who took to the stage, the first South African to win an OSCAR for best actress (Monster). She is a UN Messenger of Peace, involved in Women’s Rights organizations and also runs her own “Africa Outreach Project”.
