Molefhe launches tennis for underprivileged children
Mosah Mokganedi | Friday July 18, 2014 11:51
The programmed is dubbed Tennis 4 SOS. Molefhe said as a multi-racial sport, every child has a right to play tennis despite social background.
Molefhe who is a director at Tennis Data Hub came up with the Tennis 4 SOS as a development programme for the Save Our Souls (SOS) Children’s Village in Tlokweng. Once launched, it will consist of tennis training and academic tutoring for the SOS children.
The children will be having a minimum of two hours of tennis per week at the Gaborone Sporting Club.
Molefhe said for many years, he had wanted to take tennis to underprivileged children financial constraints thwarted his dreams until he met Tryggve Ehnberg, a Swedish coach at the Royal Tennis Hall in Stockholm.
Molefhe said the aim is to grow the sport without discrimination. Private members at the Royal Tennis Hall sponsor the project launched yesterday. “Our target is not only to teach children the basics of tennis.
But to present to the SOS children the spirit of sport and to open sporting opportunities which tennis has to offer to children of the world irrespective of their background,” Molefhe told Mmegi Sport.
He said in future as the project grows, they intend to expand it to other SOS villages in different parts of the country.
He said their intention is to introduce the children to the game at the grass roots in a bid to help the Botswana Tennis Association (BTA) discover talent.