By Jonathan Hannay | Project Leader
The year is coming to an end and it is an opportunity to look back at all the achievements we have made with our new rugby programme in a community which had never previously heard of the sport.
As you will have seen from our previous report, we are starting from a very basic level and it has been fantastic for us to receive support from new partners: the Band Saracens Club mothers did their campaign for donations of boots and in December a group of our children went of to their year end celebration where they had a great time and also received a donation of over 40 pairs of boots.
Very important for the safety of our players is that they should be fitted with mouthguards which are an investment far beyond any local family budget so it has been marvellous to have the support of British company Guardian Pro Mouthguards which is giving professional player quality individually fitted mouthguards to all of our players.
Last, I would like to make special mention of our young women - we have fifteen Under 17s training and playing regularly and are helping us to break down gender stereotypes within the community as well as being able to build up their own self confidence and discuss things that happen in their day to day lives like suffering inappropriate sexual advances from bosses in the work place. We were also able to take them to an event promoted by the British Council in São Paulo where they met and listened to inspirtional young women leaders in their fields from different parts of Brazil.
We are very happy with the start we have made and are looking forward to the coming year and building on these strong foundations.
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