Support for children in Africa

Tennis for Africa is a non profit organization born to offer the assistance to the poorest populations in African Continent.

In connection with local authorities Tennis for Africa started a series of humanitarian - sport project in Sierra Leone and Tanzania since 2009.

After the results achieved in 2013  in Dar Es Salaam and Tanga (Tanzania) and responding to a lot of requests, Tennis for Africa is planning to extend the activity in 2014 involving new selected collaborators located in Ethiopia and Kenya. We hope to maintain the expectations of our children!

The basic approach it is always the same: we believe that sport is a universal language contributing to educate people on the values of physical, mental and financial diversities, and as a means to combat poverty, discrimination, and related intolerance. Awareness-raising campaigns are tools to prevent and combat any type of intolerance within the civil society and to give realistic hope for better future for everybody, including the less privileged children.

Project beneficiaries in 2014

We plan to benefit the local communities in:

- Dar Es Salaam and Tanga "“ Tanzania: 200 children
- Kisumu -  Kenya: 150 children
- Addis ababa "“ Ethiopia: 50 children

The group of children are coordinated by local tennis instructors who will be the reference for the control of all the program.

Main project goals

The project aims at spreading of sport through the promotion of tennis in the schools with a particular attention to less privileged children and players affected by disabilities. The goals are achieved through three specific actions:

- forniture of basic tennis equipment to assure the developing of tennis
- developing of tennis camps for local coaches
- purchase of 3 stringing manual machine and strings to make available efficient racquet to all the community

Specific actions to be developed:

Tanzania
- Beneficiaries: we try to include more able body less privileged tennis players and wheelchair tennis players;
- Subjects: provision of tennis equipment in addition to the forniture of 2013; organization of two tennis camps in order to involve the professional skill of the local tennis teachers



Kenya
- Beneficiaries: vulnerable and orphaned children from slums and villages leaving in extreme poverty, achieving quality education, health care, clean water and access to different sporting activities
- Subjects: provision of basic tennis equipment




Ethiopia
- Beneficiaries: community of 50 kids who can not afford to play tennis due to lack of tennis equipment.
- Subjects: provision of basic tennis equipment



For more information

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