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	<title>Grootbos Foundation</title>
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	<description>Building sustainable nature based livelihoods</description>
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		<title>2010 Green Futures Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Green Futures  Class of 2010

We are proud to announce that once again, our 2009 Green Future graduates had a 100% pass rate and are actively preparing themselves for the exciting challenges lying ahead. Some of the graduates have been allocated to work at Grootbos, with the vision of becoming nature guides or part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2010/02/16/2010-green-futures-students/</link>
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		<title>Green Futures Students Get a Taste of The Karoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Green Futures students and staff drove out to Worcester to visit the beautiful and well regarded Karoo National Botanical Garden.
The vegetation found in these gardens is extremely unique, and many similarities are found with some of the succulent species that occurr in the Grootbos area. Much of the plantlife however, was very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/10/20/green-futures-students-get-a-taste-of-the-karoo/</link>
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		<title>Ajax Cape Town Coaching Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday 11th October, the Football Foundation once again brought in a high profile individual to run a coaching clinic for the local soccer coaches and young players. Mr Jan Pruijn is well known to the soccer fraternity as Ajax Cape Town Head of Technical Affairs, and recently appointed as Ajax Head Coach to replace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/10/14/ajax-cape-town-coaching-course/</link>
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		<title>Gansbaai United Take on Santos U/15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gansbaai vs. Santos match - 1 October 2009, Cape Town
After extensive and dedicated training during the month of September, including an action-packed holiday programme, the Gansbaai u/15 boys&#8217; soccer team was ready to challenge the formidable Santos u/15 team in Cape Town. 18 boys traveled to Cape Town along with their Football Foundation coaches to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/10/05/gansbaai-united-take-on-santos-u15/</link>
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		<title>New Residents at Growing the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great excitement is in the air at the project site, because a Cape Eagle Owl has started moving in to one of the boxes at Growing the Future!!
The boxes are placed around the vegetable gardens specifically to entice owls, which are great for contorlling the numbers of mice found in the fields. If the number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/10/03/new-residents-at-growing-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Holiday Sports Program at Gansbaai Community Sports Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 2009 Holiday Programme - Gansbaai Communal Sports Centre
When you add together a) children on holiday, b) sunny weather &#38; c) various sports, art &#38; activities: it inevitably amounts to FUN FUN FUN! That is exactly what everyone experienced during the Football Foundation&#8217;s September holiday programme hosted together with Gansbaai Council Sports.
Every morning boys and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/10/01/holiday-sports-program-at-gansbaai-community-sports-centre/</link>
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		<title>Minister of Home Affairs visits Spaces for Sports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday 14 September, we received an unexpected visitor at the Gansbaai Communal Sports Centre. South Africa&#8217;s Minister of Home Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, paid a surprise visit to the Football Foundation&#8217;s youth sports programme in Gansbaai. She had been informed about the project by the South African High Commissioner to the UK, Lindiwe Mabuza.
Minister Dlamini-Zuma [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/09/15/minister-of-home-affairs-visits-spaces-for-sports/</link>
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		<title>New Hockey Project gets German Skills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s hockey project and will be coaching at the centre for the next 3 months.
Lena plays for the National German Women&#8217;s Hockey Team and Hannah for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/09/01/new-hockey-project-gets-german-skills/</link>
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		<title>Growing the Future Launch a Huge Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Growing the Future project was officially launched on a beautiful Sunday in conjunction with Womens Day the 9th of August 2009. The event was very well attended by various local friends and supporters, as well as representatives from our major sponsors the DEG, and various officials. The opening ceremony was led by the Deputy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/08/19/growing-the-future-launch-a-huge-success/</link>
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		<title>Womens Day presentation for the youngsters of Masakhane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In August we celebrated Women&#8217;s Day in Gansbaai! 54 Years ago, on 9 August 1956, 20,000 women fought for freedom and equality by staging a march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. Since 1994, August 9 is commemorated annually and is known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grootbosfoundation.org/2009/08/09/womens-day-presentation-for-the-youngsters-of-masakhane/</link>
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