Project Report
| Oct 18, 2024
Playing Sports and Playing Music are Both Playing
By Karl F Weyrauch | Project Manager
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Dancers Enjoy the New Stage
In addition to a center for sports and physical education, the preschool has become a hotspot for traditional musical arts. Classes in dance, flute playing and drumming have inspired children and parents to become more engaged with performances. Recently, over one-hundred performers gave a fantastic show for an audience of hundreds of cheering and clapping neighbors, including everyone from government officials to local motorcycle chauffeurs.
The new performance space has also become a favorite sport for young children to practice walking upside down by standing on their hands. They compete among themselves to see how far they can walk without falling, and in so doing have a wonderful time, as well as enjoying a marvelous exercise for building their upper body strength and balance.
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Jun 25, 2024
Sports and Music are Fun and Build Character
By Perrilee Pizzini | Project Manager
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Outdoor Activities are Fun
Outdoor activities at the Early Childhood Education center are more important than ever. With new-found health and energy, children enjoy greater capacity to grow through sports and music. A new singing group has proven extremely popular. These fun pastimes also help divert children from unwholesome temptations of street life, like drugs.
When our team visited Kinyana Village to discuss these issues, they bought a new soccer ball as a gift.. It was the first time any children there had seen one, and it was a big surprise. They were so excited to play!
Also, we are exploring other sports activities that the children might enjoy. For example, basketball and volleyball are played in Rwandan high schools and would be easy to introduce. Our Field Manager even made outreach to a Karate Club who is interested in future collaboration.
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New Singing Group
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Field Manage at Karate Club
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Mar 22, 2024
Soccer Unites Players and the Community
By Perrilee Pizzini | Project Manager
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Blue Uniforms Look Smart!
The boys and girls play on soccer teams during special "Sport Day" activities on Saturdays. All gather for practice and the special balls from the USA are brought out for all to use. The balls are so soft on the feet compared to the balls of wound-up string that sometimes are used when there are no balls available! It is so much fun the players almost can't stop!
After the drills and the practice games, there are snacks including juice. Then the players join in for some voluntary community service. Sometimes they simply walk around and pick up rocks from the soccer field. Sometimes, they help elderly people in the village with projects to improve their welfare. Recently, the team helped carry mud bricks to the building site of a new toilet out-house facility for one of the Villge elders whose helath did not permit them participating in the construction. The players are good workers, and when everyone helps out, the job is so much easier!
Learning to work together boith on and off the soccer filed helps build teamwork and cooperation and is one of the big success of the physical educaiton component of the overall community development work.Soccer balls are a key to help grow strong bodies and strong principles of goodwill.
Thank you for making this learning activity available for the Village children!
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