One School One Sportsfield is the fund-raising focus for the Rotary Club of Morningside for 2012- 2013. Making a donation toward this valuable project will bring school sports to under-resourced school in South Africa.

1. One School, One
Sports-Field
Proudly put forward by Rotary
Club of Morningside

2. Rotary
• Rotary
– Established in 1905
• Oldest charity organisation in the World
– Consists of 1,2 Million members in 34,000 clubs
– All cultures and ethnicities but is not affiliated with any
political or religious organisation
• support education
• job training
• provide clean water
• combat hunger
• improve health and sanitation
• eradicate polio
– Motto: ‘Service above self’’
– Rotarians are volunteers

3. Rotary Club of Morningside

4. Rotary Club of Morningside
• Morningside
– Based in Gauteng meet at Country Club
of Johannesburg, Woodmead
– Chartered in 1986
– 35 members
– History of empowering disadvantaged
schools
• Sefikeng Primary
• Kwena Malopo High
• De La Rey Primary

5. Previous Projects
• Sefikeng
– Upgrade of kitchen
– Renovation of computer room
– Painting of Classrooms
– Multi-purpose court

6. Previous Projects
• Kwena Malopo
– Water supply
– Feeding Scheme
– Upgrade of library
• De La Rey
– Feeding scheme

7. Sefikeng Primary

8. Project Aim
• Development through sport
– Keep fit and prevent obesity
• Boost self esteem
– Encourage a healthy and constructive pastime
– Encourage teamwork and develops
coordination
• Encourage competiveness
• Realise the important of hard work
• Develop South Africa’s future top athletes

9. Project Plan
• Provide a Multi-purpose Court to
disadvantaged schools in the greater
Johannesburg area that have no sport
facilities:
– Identified by Department of Sport and
Recreation & Department of Education
• Identified by Sponsors

10. Endorsements
• Minister of Sport and Recreation:
“School Sport has a valuable contribution to
make in the development and
transformation of South African society”
Fikile Mbalula
• Gauteng Minister for Education:
Barbara Creecy was guest of honour at the
hand over of our prototype to Sefikeng
Primary (June 2010)

11. RCM Role
• Engaged with Principal, staff and
learners
• Engaged architects to donate design
• Raised funds for construction
• Oversee the completion of project
including project management
• Handed over to school

12. RCM Role
• Fundraise for each school as a new
project including obtaining sponsors
• Oversee construction and delivery
• Handover
• All Rotarians provide their services as
volunteers – all funds raised go
directly to projects with no
management fees

13. Court Specifications
• All weather textured surface non-slip surface in wet and dry
conditions
• Unaffected by extreme temperatures
– Remains comfortable underfoot
• Colours do not fade
• Built in drainage slope which ensure quick run-off
• Long lasting and low maintenance
• Used for multiple sports
– Volley Ball
– Tennis
– Basket Ball
– Badminton
• Cost +-R160,000.00

14. Stakeholders
• Identified School
• Sponsor
• RCM for project management
• Barrett’s Tennis Courts Construction

15. Marketing & Publicity
• Provide ongoing publicity for project
through interviews with relevant
players
• Broadcast live from school at
handover
• Provide ongoing publicity for sporting
codes using the facility

16. Nelson Mandela
• Sport has the power to change the world.
• It has the power to unite in a way that little else
does.
• It speaks to youth in a language they understand.
• Sport can create hope where once there was only
despair.
• It is more powerful than governments in breaking
down racial barriers.
• It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.