The Kings Foundation

Last Tuesday I had a guy from the Kings Foundation come to my village.  Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Victor to post here, but he was great.  The Kings Foundation is a Christian UK charity that uses sports to reach and teach kids in the UK and multiple countries in Africa.  Although they are a christian organization, their main idea-  that kids are valuable and important-  is a universal idea, so they will partner with lots of non-religious organizations, including Peace Corps.  KF runs lots of camps in the UK and South Africa for kids using sports.  They then in turn use a lot of the money made at those camps to buy sports equipment to distribute to rural areas in Africa, and train people how to use it. http://www.kingsvolunteer.org/

Enter my village.  Victor came Tuesday and trained 6 teachers- 4 from my school and 2 from the primary school, 9 community police volunteers, and 6 other community members in how to engage kids, run games with and without sports equipment, and then gave us a whole bag of sports equipment for our village.

This is a ninja game, and the community police volunteers really got into it.

Passing the hula hoops down the line.

All ages love parachute games. 

I should have taken a picture of the base pack- that's what they call the packs they donate.  It's got a soccer ball, 4 tennis balls, jump ropes, cones, arm bands (so you know who is on your team), frisbees, 3 hula hoops (that can also be destructed into pieces for relays), bean bags, a parachute, and a first aid kit. It. is. AWESOME.  And even more awesome is that there are now 20 people in my village that have played with the equipment and know that it's at my house.  Here's hoping we can have some game days in the future!