musclepump said:
That's a nice place, that Capetown is
A close friend of mine has a foundation called "run4schools",
here's the site:
www.run4schools.nl
I don't know if there is a button to switch to English, so I'll translate it a little.
The man that started this foundation is called Leslie Pangamanan, he was send to south Africa by the Olympic committee,
they wanted him to help the people there. so he stayed there for 2 years, but then when he got back to the Netherlands he wanted to do
something for Africa, so he combined what he always wanted to do with what he had always done. he is a marathon runner,
and he found out that there was a run in Africa called "the two ocean run"you can guess why it's called that.
the run is 56km. a distance he runs daily for training.
He has done the race two times now and he will do it again in march.
he is also the fitness trainer for the national basketball team and the Amsterdam basketball team, he also trains some of the Ajax players.
He put this foundation up to help the children in Africa, he want them to have good schools, and he is raising a lot of money every year,
but it's just once a year so we'll have to find ways to raise more during the rest of the year.
He also promotes sport in general in Africa, just to keep the children of the street. South Africa is a very nice place, but at one point
the Dutch(
) came to Africa for resources, and they(we) threw the the people of balance, by making some people rich and some not.
It's still divided in two different parts now. I heard Coleman went everywhere but that could not be used a promo material for Weider.
So the pics are only from the rich areas and the mostly white area.
The situation there is really fucked up right now, aids, poverty, drugs and crime are taking the toll on these people and they need help.
Nobody is obligated to do anything but help is always welcome, you can donate money like this, you can deposit money on this bank account:
66.85.87.792 (ING Bank Hilversum) Stichting RUN4SCHOOLS
ING is a bank in The Netherlands, Hilversum is the location of the headquarters of the bank, "Stichting" means foundation in dutch.
If you would like to donate in some other way, you can pm me, and I'll but you in contact with Leslie.
Let's say that you work at a factory that produces clothing and they made a misprint, and they have 500 shirts (or something else) left, you could
ship them there, or if you are going there any way and you want to help, it's all welcome.
Here are the children from Alpine high school with the shirts puma donated for them.
Notice the logo on their back, that's the run4schools logo.
Here's Leslie with some of the kids at that school.
Thank you for your time,
TheUnit(XXL)