Introducing Tennis for all Uganda - Achievement 1(verification)

in Newcomers' Community4 years ago

We are a local charity based in the heart of Kampala. We are a youth-led Tennis for development organisation using tennis as a vehicle for positive social change in the lives of slum children in Uganda.

We seek to change lives, one game at a time, through structured tennis programs. We empower, mobilize, and educate slum children both boys and girls through tennis.

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To these boys and girls; we offer tennis and health education and social support. Currently, TFAU offers regular educational programs, free tennis training, and hosts tournaments and camps welcoming hundreds of children from the slums of Naguru, Godown and Kamwokya.

These slums have earned their reputation as some of the toughest slums in Kampala, with high crime rates, truancy, substance abuse, obesity, teen pregnancy, and academic failure. On weekends and holidays, more than 200 children between the age of 6 to 18 years come from these slums to our centers and participate in our programs. We believe that sport can encourage these children to live better lives, while also providing them with skills to succeed in the future.

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Today, half of the players on the Under 12 and Under 14 Ugandan national tennis team come from the TFAU tennis program. Our students appreciate that tennis can be a lifelong social activity, a fitness/health maintenance vehicle and an instrument to better understand that everyone is equal. TFAU seeks to implement academic improvements, good citizenship qualities, and self-esteem enhancement, which directly correlate into greater mental and physical health, and enhanced employment skills of these slum children.

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Through tennis at TFAU, kids who initially had no pride in themselves and no positive outlook on the future are given opportunities and skills to succeed, and are transformed into confident, well rounded individuals with dreams that are able to become a reality."

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 4 years ago (edited)

Hello @tfauganda. You are most welcome to the steemit platform and online community. You are a great charity project in Uganda. Steemit supports charity projects and I am glad you have opted to join this amazing platform and I believe your charity initiatives will be supported by the steemit team.

Have a wonderful steem experience.

You have been upvoted by @yohan2on, a Uganda country representative. We are using the steemcurator04 curator account to support African content creators on steemit.

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@yohan2on, thanks for introducing us to this great platform and looking forward to working with you all in making our communities grow up

You are doing a great work. Welcome to steemit. Helping kids develop skills that would transform their lives is something nice. You are well appreciated for the good thought towards humanity.

Thank you @beautychicks, for the welcome and we are happy to share and try to also inspire other youth people to use sports to develop their communities

@tfauganda team welcome to steem community. Your team project is noble. Thank you for your care for these children. As for our program verification, could one of your team member verify this account simply by holding a paper and written on it this steemit account name, steemit and recent date, for example, like in this photo
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We looking forward to supporting your good cause project.

Thank you for the warm welcome and looking forward to working with you all to empower young people in our communities

 4 years ago 

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Thanks once again for the warm welcome and appreciation humbled to be family on the platform

Hi @tfauganda !
This project is a great initiative. What you have showed those little children a new dream. Take a good care of them and their dream. We will be very helpful for us if you follow @cryptokannon's comment instruction.

Again thanks for sharing this great project with us.

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Hi @trapan
Thank you my friend and we really appreciate your support on this platform

Welcome to steemit. You made nice post.

Thanks for the worm welcome @gorllara and looking forward to sharing with you more about what we do

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