community*
TURNING ATHLETES
into activists
SPORT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CATALYST FOR UNITING PEOPLE – THE SPORT FOR LIVES MOVEMENT HAS DEEPENED THAT CONNECTION, AND IT’S EFFECTING SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES, WRITES ANNE SCHAUFFER 14
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teacher at Hilton College for 13 years, Chris Kingsley and his family witnessed many people emigrating in recent times for various reasons: “Feeling called to stay and not emigrate, then one must stay and make a difference. But how would we actually do something that made that difference? Generally, South Africans want to do so much, but don’t know where to begin, so keep on doing what they were doing.” Chris was constantly wrestling with this challenge, and then, without trying, a solution presented itself – Jono Kruger, a teacher friend at Selborne College, told him about Tries for Lives. In a nutshell, it worked like this – individual children in a rugby team would get their friends and family to sponsor an amount of money per try – so the more tries, the more funds raised. But these funds were used in a very specific
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