Sports must be compulsory for Kids

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We Mothers of the Nation, one of our core goals is to make sport compulsory for every school/community to take sport seriously from an early stage. In addition, having to invest towards education alone is insufficient. We believe these two components are critical towards the betterment of communities’s livelihoods, especially positive impact based behaviours.

Lastly sport and education are spliced to each other, which create safer spaces for kids’s joy, love and success. Sports build them ,It grooms them and unleash the best out of them. Sport makes them better people in the society. Above all, sports build their self-esteem and have great benefits in their health as well as social skills.

We strongly believe that sports can reduce:

• Teenage pregnancies,
• Substance abuse,
• Crime,
• Bullying,
• GBV

Mothers of the Nation persistently working hard to make sure that every child that is in sport must have all the resources for the sport of their choice. With your kindness and support it is possible for us to achieve this goal.

In the South African context, when we talk about Black children, we are also including Coloureds and Indians, though at some levels, they do not experience these socio- economic disparities as the Black children. Mothers of the Nation exists because we felt that we cannot as mothers fold our arms as our children’s future is being thrown into the dustbins of hunger, poverty, inequality, substance abuse and lack of recreational facilities both in our Black communities and schools. The Foundations believes that the establishment of these recreational facilities will play a pivotal role in changing the mindsets of our children. The prevalent fact is that; in most of our townships and schools, there is a dearth of sports facilities and again, it is our belief that if these facilities are in place, our children will not have time to delve into areas that are going to prematurely destroy their lives. A case in point is that one of Enyobeni Tavern in Eastern Cape where children as young as 10 years indulged in alcohol, unprotected sex and substance abuse died inside that Tavern. We believe that could have been avoided if there was enough recreational facilities to keep these children “busy”