Football Without Borders needs your help
"On one side, there are the slums, these hyper-impoverished neighbourhoods which are a breeding-ground for crimes and addictions – among other plagues."
Zandspruit is the name of an informal settlement in the city of Johannesburg.
It is also the origin of UJAB’s (a boxing project that falls under Football Without Borders) Containerised Gym Unit, a social innovation project launched in August 2017 by Kebone Moloki and Michael Kudakwashe Mapfunde that aims to offer an infrastructure which is a community safe-hub for upcoming young boxers. in addition, it’s also a platform where players can participate in personal development programmes.
Photo: Bianca Pindral.
A Containerised Gym Unit (CGU) is a shipping container converted into a world-class weight-training facility. Gym containers come with all the equipment found in standard gyms and training facilities to create a robust, mobile, training platform wherever one is needed. They’re ideal for military training or public/ private company fitness centres wanting to enhance employee health and wellbeing.
Football Without Borders will launch its first official CGU in Kromdraai on Saturday, 12 May. But to make this possible, the club still needs some equipment and is asking the community to assist in any way they possibly can.
They need second-hand tyres, soccer, netball and medicine balls, floor mats, skipping ropes, sporty shoes and clothes for the children, kickboxing bags, boxing gloves, paint, wooden doors, glass for windows, roof/ ceiling material, day/ night switch lights and proper flooring.
If you would like to help, contact Tanya on 082 606 9123.
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