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Volume 02, 21 May 2014, Week 21
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A few of the children who participated in the Games On Friday 16 May over 1000 children from crèches throughout Ekurhuleni participated in the 2014 Ekurhuleni Kiddies Games. The Kiddies Games is an annual event, which forms part of the Ekurhuleni Department of Sport and Recreation’s Early Childhood Development Programme, with the overall aim of encouraging youngsters to participate in sport to keep them healthy and busy. “This is a very important programme for us as a Department, because the Early Childhood Development Programme teaches them [the children] co-ordination. They are not playing
for championships at this particular moment; they are just recreating. We expect that as time goes on, some are going to be influenced by this and go to sport,, others will play sport, others will be coaches, and others will be trainers. From this programme we may identify talent,” said Cllr Zeni Tshongweni, Ekurhuleni MMC for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. According to the Ekurhuleni Director of Sport and Recreation, Atwell Sijadu, the initiative promotes sport and encourages mass participation in sport from a young age. Since the programme started in 2003, it has grown significantly: over 400 preschools in Ekurhuleni took part in the 2014 Games.
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This year, 35 crèches and their top young competitors made it through to the Metro finals on 16 May. The children, who are all between 5 and 6-years-old, took part on three different levels: area games, regional games and metro games. A few of the sport activities completed included: cycling, ball dribbling, ball kicking, ball hopping, among other ball activities, as well as balancing and ring-throwing. All the crèches that participated in the metro finals received medals and certificates of participation. The top scoring children also won equipment prizes to encourage and enable them to continue playing sport at home.
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