Lace Up For Change (LU4C) registered as a Non Profit in
December of 2016. As an organization, we use the medium of sport to facilitate
change within impoverished communities. Our empowerment projects focusses
on schools.
Their flagship project, The Boeber Run has not happened for over a year now due to the covid 19 restrictions that are in place. The project involves meeting at various areas within Cape Town in the evenings, running 5km to the nearest informal settlement or areas with a high count of homeless where they feed them. Since Lockdown and the restrictions placed on movements in the evenings, they have switched their attention to supporting 11 different feeding stations in the New Horizons, Randfontein and Tafelsig areas. They have been supporting with supplies for cooking & gas. Their empowerment projects focusses on schools. Last year, they handed over 20 Tablet computers with Vodacom sim cars and Access to Vodacom's e-learning portal to Talfallah primary school in Mannem=berg. A few weeks ago, they also unveiled a brand new computer lab with their Partners Syntell at the Dietreich Moravian Primary School in Phillipi. (https://youtu.be/yqgmtreyOds)
They also find themselves in the middle of their #50For50 Campaign. This campaign is a celebration of cofounder and teach Irafaan Abraham's 50th Birthday. As part of the challenge, Irafaan is running 50 Half Marathons during 2021 raising funds to fit learners from 50 schools with a brand new pair of school shoes. That’s almost 50 000 pairs of shoes. (See their Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/LaceUp4Change/)
Presenter: Mkuseli "Kusi" Veto
Written by: Gcobani Ralo
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