New faces in PE

The last 2 weeks have seen the Port Elizabeth management team (including interns) building up to what we hope to be a very productive and meaningful year for the site. This included a one week training of twenty new coaches (peer educators) in our Skillz curriculum. The week prior I was part of the team that conducted interviews and I was thoroughly impressed by the coaches we recruited. As active role models in their community we learnt about their past and their hopes as they take up this new position in Grassroot Soccer. Our goal this year is to graduate 10,000 kids n our curriculum, therefore the need for more hands to the pump! I am excited to work with the new and old coaches as we get ready to begin interventions in schools next week!

Monthly newsletters

Over the last few months I have produced newsletters to document my experience here in Port Elizabeth. These have gone to family, friends, supporters and donors on a monthly basis. Here is a link to the ones I have written so far. Please feel free to have a look.

If you would like to be added to the email list please email me at tchitongo@grassrootsoocer.org. The next newsletter will cover December and January and I expect to send it out in early February.

Best wishes in 2011!!

2011 - Expansion plans

Happy to be back in Port Elizabeth again after going back to Zimbabwe for 3 weeks. Our office is getting straight back into the swing of things, as we prepare to hire 20 new peer educators to work in Motherwell, New Brighton and Zwide.

There is a commitment in Grassroot Soccer to expand our work throughout the shools, and there is no reater signal of these intentions than the hiring of new coaches. Interviews begin tomorrow and the Training of Coaches will be next week.