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Making a difference
See below for an excerpt of an article from The Province highlighting the amazing work of one of our clients — Hoops 4 Hope.
"Making a difference: She opened her heart, they opened her eyes"
by Kent Gilchrist, The Province, August 23, 2009
Talk about the indomitable spirit, the generous heart and the work ethic to be able to make a difference to everyone with whom she comes in contact. That’s Jamie Keast.
Jamie and her boyfriend Matt Sacks recently returned from Cape Town, South Africa, where they unloaded, sorted and delivered some of Rick Gill’s Hoops 4 Hope container of basketballs, soccer balls, shoes and uniforms he and his little cadre of volunteers had busily filled here over the previous 18 months or so to send to kids in need over there.
Prior to their arrival in Cape Town, the pair had volunteered in Ghana, where Matt had helped coach basketball while Jamie taught an HIV and Aids awareness course in various schools during the day and helped put children to bed at an orphanage during the night. They were there for more than four months.
Read the full article.
Read the Hoops 4 Hope’s most recent report from the field — Sneakers Arrive in Africa.
