Soccer fever hits the community
The Valley Lodge & Spa in Magaliesburg will be donating a soccer ball to a local disadvantaged school for every massage paid for.
The 2014 FIFA Soccer World Cup fever has started – even in Magaliesburg.
“We are very grateful to Valley Lodge and Spa for what they are doing to uplift our pupils as we are a very disadvantaged school” — Selby Matlkala, head of department at Maloney’s Eye Farm School
The award-winning four-star Valley Lodge and Spa on the banks of the Magalies River has reason to celebrate, not only because it is – strictly speaking – soccer season, but because the spa has some historical involvement with the soccer world cup.
The spa, which recently was named the winners of the 2014 Up and Coming Award in the spa category at the Professional Six Sensational Skincare and Spalicious Recognition Awards ceremony held in Kayalami, was built four years ago to the specifications of the Portugal team in preparation for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
To celebrate the spa’s achievements and their fourth anniversary they have a promotional soccer fever package by which guests and visitors can enjoy a sensual massage journey and help to uplift the local community.
For each paid massage the spa will be be donating a soccer ball to the pupils at the Maloney’s Eye Primary Farm School a stone’s throw away from the lodge.
During an invitation-only event for which Armand du Plessis, a Mr SA finalist from Ruimsig was the emcee, the first soccer ball was handed over to Selby Matlkala, the head of department at the school.
“We are very grateful to Valley Lodge and Spa for what they are doing to uplift our pupils as we are a very disadvantaged school,” says Matlkala.
“Sport is a very important part of our curriculum, but if we do not have the correct tools and facilities we can not perform as we would have wanted to.”
The spa hopes to donate about 300 soccer balls in September.
After the handover was done the guests watched the opening of the World Cup event and the first soccer game between the host country Brazil and Croatia.
The rest of the evening belonged to eating lots of biltong and the different foods of the world.
