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GHANA TENNIS AID
Hey, I'm Sal Bolton and I lurvvveeee Tennis and teach it from time to time at Sutton Tennis Academy, London UK and as a volunteer for Tennis For Free. This is what I like to call my 'humanitarian hobby' which is my UK based founded appeal of collecting tennis/sports equipment to give underprivaledged communities in Ghana, West Africa and other parts of Africa, the opportunity to play tennis under the umbrella of a Gap Year company and in association with UK Tennis Charity TENNIS FOR FREE www.tennisforfree.com and TENNIS FOR AFRICA www.tennisforafrica.org
Coach Noah - Ghanaian National Head Coach
' This is to thank everyone who has helped to take Winneba and Ghana tennis to another level. Since July 2007 as Tennis for free volunteer coaches, the volunteers and contributors have brought a lot of happiness to Ghanaian tennis youth, especially those in Winneba. The National Sports College Academy in Winneba received several donations of rackets, tennis balls, clothes, shoes,and some coaching equipment. With these donations, the tennis development project in Ghana was enhanced and new school training programmes were introduced to catch them young talent.
Tournaments and competitions have soon became part of the development project. The donated items were used as prices after every tournament and competition. The basic schools around the university of Education in Winneba also benefited from donations like mathematics text books,English reading books, pens and pencils.
Also, the volunteers were able to raise some funds to sponsor one of our tennis players to the ITF training centre in Pretoria, South Africa for one month. This player is now fast establishing himself as one of the best tennis players in Ghana.
The continuous donations of tennis equipments from the UK through the construction company(Taylor Woodrow) has enabled this academy to be an outstanding tennis training centre in the sub-region. We are forever grateful to you and may God richly Bless you. Noah. '
awwww thanks Coach!
awwww thanks Coach!
LATEST APPEAL - Summer 2009
School Books for the Winneba School
Ghana Tennis Aid has launced a summer appeal to collect school books for the children attending the local school in Winneba. Learning resources are a scarcity in Africa, and the University Practice Secondary School where many of the tennis children who we taught attend their. The school has a new library, built in 2007 - which I saw when I visited the shool. The library was however empty of learning resources so this is where we're stepping in the help -appealing in the local area of South London for the collection of books that can be used to educate the young Ghanaians. So far 150 books have been shipped out to the school and hopefully some more at the end of the Summer........
School Tennis For Sierra Leone
TENNIS FOR AFRICA AUCTION ON EBAY!!
Tennis For Africa propose an online auction on Ebay of Tennis Memoribilia donated by Ana Ivanovic, Tim Henman and Andre Agassi. 100% of the profits will go towards funding the reconstruction of the tennis courts at the school in Sierra Leone. Please Bid HERE!!!!!!!
Ghana Tennis Aid and Tennis For Africa are seeking to do a follow up trip to Sierra Leone to the school to revitalise some tennis activity and are looking for flight sponsorship or any funding help aswell as the need to refurbish the tennis courts. If you would like to help, see more about the school at Sierra Leone School Tennis Appeal
Email salbolton@live.com or jchubbard@hotmail.co.uk
Ghana Tennis Aid supports Right To Dream www.righttodream.com a charity that is trying to raise $1 million to build a multi sports academy in Ghana aiming to give children a sporting chance in Africa by offering scholarships in sport and education to impoverished children who's talents go unnoticed.....
If you'd like to donate anything you can to Right To Dream please go to www.justgiving.com/righttodream
Watch the video for UK Tennis Charity Tennis For Free where there's no need to pay to play - the way it should be!
http://www.digitaldelicious.com/Client_TFF_Full_Edit_05_Play.html
So.... 1. GTA asked various individuals, local tennis clubs and retailers to collect and donate anything that can aid a tennis lesson (i.e - unused tennis rackets, balls, bags, shoes, clothes, sports equipment) 2. Then..can take it on the flight for a magical adventure to Africa yourself (Thank You Astreus Airlines www.flystar.com) or shipping it by the help of those FAB people at companies Taysec, Robert Claire and COBA UK 3. Donations arrive in Africa and get to the communties and hey presto!
Ghana Tennis Aid was featured on British Television Channel 5 'Five News' with Natascha Kaplinsky February 2008
Watch more videos on Tennis in Ghana here
AFRICA
The Appeal first started collecting anything tennisy in early 2007 which was for a 5 month trip I took to Ghana to teach underprivaleged communities how to play tennis as a volunteer with 'Global Sports Xperience' who helped deprived communities all over the world through sports and non sports orientated projects.
Whilst studying Geography at University, humanitarian topics on African countries made me more aware of the realism of poverty and deprivation people in the Third World face everyday.
So...when a friend showed me the oppurtunity of doing the gap year Tennis Project in Ghana, I felt I could help give underprivaledged children the opportunities I had through playing tennis. I knew how scarce equipment would be, a major obstacle for anything in Africa (you'll rarely find a child who can afford their own pair of shoes) and with Tennis - balls lose their bounce, racket strings break and you kinda need proper shoes to play a proper game....so the GTA Appeal was born.....
GHANA (for obvious reasons) Alot of the stuff collected from the appeal has been taken or shipped to the communites where Global Sports Xperience placed volunteers at The National Sports College, Winneba, Accra, and a local ophanage.
See Ghana Tennis Project with Global Sports Xperience 2007
SIERRA LEONE Italian based charity 'Tennis For Africa' auction player memoribilia and fundraise from tennis events for projects in Africa. One of their projects is starting children playing tennis at a CKC school in Bo in Sierra Leone where rackets, balls and tennis nets have been donated from the appeal :) See Sierra Leone School Tennis Appeal
Supporting...
UGANDA
GTA supports Denise Gwatkins UK charity 'Daniel's Dream' www.danielsdream.org.uk to help orphaned children who were living in a very dilapidated orphanage. In February 2008 and 2009, Denise went out to Uganda with a load of tennis equipment and introduced the game to children who had never used a racket before. Her charity aims to help Daniel, who has been helping children for years, to keep his orphanage in Uganda going and to buy a plot of land to build a boarding school - aint that cool! Ghana Tennis Aid donated a tennis net and tennis balls from local tennis clubs for Daniel's Orphange in Kampala.
Contributors to GTA in all shapes and forms...... Thanks guys! [Big Breath....huhh]
Special Thanks to Christian Singer of Wilson Europe for supporting by sponsoring Wilson equipment for the appeal - Thanks!
WEST AFRICAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
ROBERT CLAIRE
COBA UK www.coba-uk.org
TENNIS IN SURREY MAGAZINE
GHANA LEARNING PROJECTS www.ghanalearningproject.com
JUNIOR TENNIS CLAY REGISTRY
CHEAM SPORTS www.cheamsports.co.uk
BUDGENS SUPERMARKET - CHEAM
A HUGE THANK YOU!!! TO IAN AND JULIE WILKES FOR THEIR VERY COOL SPONSORSHIP HELP AND EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO GAVE ME SPONSORSHIP TO GET TO AFRICA.....
AND THE FOLLOWING TENNIS CLUBS.....
ST ANDREWS LAWN TENNIS CLUB http://www.cheamtennis.co.uk/
HARTSWOODS LTC http://www.hartswoodtennis.co.uk/
WORCESTER PARK LTC
PURLEY SPORTS CLUB http://www.purleysportsclub.co.uk/
SUTTON CHURCHES LTC www.clubtennis.co.uk
LTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTRE
SURBITON RACKET AND FITNESS CLUB www.surbiton.org
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