United Cubs Tournament in Zimbabwe

IMG_2160The United Cubs Tournament in Tichakunda took place on 31st of October 2015. Tichakunda (www.tichakunda.org) is an Early Childhood Development Full Day Care Centre in a squattercamp in Harare, Zimbabwe. It caters for 340 orphans and vulnerable children in the community. The children are in the age between 3 and 6 years and 75% of them have lost one ore both parents. Some are unter care of their grandparents and 34 are living in Tichakunda together with the founder of the centre Winnie Masaure. The school gets no support from the government and all the teachers, the kitchening and the gardening staff work voluntary since 2005.

 IMG_2418For our United Cubs Tournament we invited the children who are going to graduate in December 2015 with a short letter. So these children were in the age of 5 an 6 years. We also invited the orphans who stay with the founder of Tichakunda, Winnie Masaure, and also the volunteers children. The volunteers had cleaned the place, prepared a race track with sand and prepared also some posters which said “Play for a smile” or “United Cubs thank you”. Our day started at 9:30 a.m. About 180 children arrived in time (some had arrived already at 8:00) and the pre-school secretary started to form 10 teams. Each team got two teamleaders (teachers or some of the bigger orphans or teachers children). After that we startet do distribute the t-shirts to each team and every team got a wristband in a different colour. The teamleaders did a great job, the gathered their team and motivited them to get number 1.
Irene Musonza, who is the pre-school secretary led the races. For each race she explained the participants the rules of that particular race or showed them, how to do it (f. ex. the skippingrope race).
Our first race was a 50m-race and the results were taken down at the result desk. The teams cheered for their teammembers and celebrated the winners. Specially the teamleaders were cheering and dancing and motivated the children to follow them. During the day we did furthermore beanbag-races, sackraces, egg-and-spoon-races, wheelbarrow-race, shopping-races, pegraces and skippingrope-races. IMG_1688

For lunch we had hotdogs which were prepared by some volunteers. The children were very happy about a meal, which was completely different to what they eat usually, specially because they got meet. They also enjoyed the apples which I had bought as a dessert.
After lunch we continued the races and ended with ropepulling between the different teams. We closed the tournament with an awards ceremony. Team “Pinky” was the winning team. We also had a prie giving for the ten children, who did best during the whole day. A friend of our organisation 4BetterLife e.V. had sponsored 10 writing cases for Tichakunda, which she had sewed by herself. We decided to give these beautyfull writing cases as a price for the 10 winners of the competition.
Wie closed with a price giving for all the children, everyone got some sweets. Before dismissing the secretary and also the teamleaders activited the children to sing different songs and to celebrate the day. Children and volunteers said again and again, that this was a very special day, that they really enjoyed and that they will never forget this day.

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Volunteer Steffi Ruhl

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