10 PlayMakers from Diepsloot honoured
MAGALIESSIG– Read how 10 PlayMakers from Diepsloot were honoured.
There are 10 playmakers from Diepsloot who have successfully completed the one-year Sports Administration Learnership and leadership programme at the Diepsloot Safe-Hub III.
This is thanks to Tsogo Sun, which is one of the safe hub’s key sponsors, who held a ceremony at Montecasino to honour the PlayMakers.
Other partners of the safe-hub include Cathsseta, Knorr Bremse, and Laureus.
The playmakers are the frontline coaching staff at the safe hub and they deliver all after-school programming to the various age groups at the facility.
A primary requirement for every PlayMaker accepted on the programme, all of whom are from Diepsloot, is a commitment to change their communities and be positive role models for children and youth.
One of the playmakers, Johannes Molepo (28), shared that his motto is being a vessel of change and bringing hope to the hopeless youth of the area.
Molepo said, “We never have a perfect start in life and improving and success come with learning. By providing a chance to learn, we empower ourselves and others. The safe-hub gives us the opportunity to change young people’s lives through sports development – a child in sports is a child out of court.”
The safe-hub’s programme has been operating at Muzomuhle Primary School in Diepsloot since February 2016 and was delivered by Amandla EduFootball through a funding partnership with Montecasino at an investment of more than R4 million over three years.
This year it provided 640 local youngsters from grades R to matric regular access to a safe environment for facilitated sports, arts, life skills lessons, personal development, and the opportunity for a better future. The safe hub also runs a night league programme for 100 young men from the community, aged 19 and over, to play soccer on a Friday night.
The playmakers, which consist of three boys and eight girls, between the ages of 18 and 27, worked at the safe-hub throughout last year with the children in the various activities, gaining valuable work experience and training to become more employable.
Their learnership included NQF level 4 in sports administration, and the whole of last year the Playmaker intake graduated with pass rates of 75–95 per cent on all assessments.
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