Our Dream “When I play soccer, I feel joy inside.” Those words from Lebogang, a matric student in Tshisahulu village in Venda, sum up what the Dreamfields Project is all about. Since our launch in October 2007, we have been working flat out to spread that joy — and many people, ranging from corporations to small companies to kids with huge hearts, are helping us to do that. more... Dreamfields builds dreams in three different ways: DreamBags provide schools with a complete set of kit including boots, everything a team needs to walk out onto the field, ready to take on the world. DreamEvents bring schools, sponsors and the community together for a tournament, an exhilarating all-day celebration of the power of soccer to inspire the best in all of us. DreamFields represent renewed spaces for young people to play — not just restored soccer fields, but symbols of what communities and their partners can achieve by working together. more... more... more...

How You Can Help Thanks to the vision and generosity of our founding partner, BHP Billiton, every Rand you contribute to Dreamfields goes a long way. No contribution is too small and our DreamGrowers range from giant corporations to eight-year-old children, from 60-year-olds celebrating their birthdays to small companies and government departments looking for an opportunity to put back. more...

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Funding: Required: R 60,000.00 Received: R 47,250.00 Outstanding: R 12,750.00 Contribute Now Dreams Unlimited – Generation 2022 (1) Together, as South Africans, we delivered a breathtaking World Cup in 2010. Now, can we work together to build a breathtaking team, a team that could really challenge for the World Cup in 2022? At Dreamfields we believe that South Africa can – and we’d like you to help. The 2010 Fifa World CupTM left millions of South Africans with vivid and lasting memories – among them young footballers from the Driekoppies village in Mpumalanga. We got them tickets to see Ivory Coast play in Nelspruit, and we arranged for Thlakanang Primary from Tembisa - winners of the Dreamfields Cup – to go and watch Brazil at Ellis Park. By the year 2022, these young boys will be in their mid-20s, just reaching their peak as players. Much now depends on what kind of football they play in the next three years. We believe that well-organised league soccer at school level will do more than anything else to unearth talent and develop stars – and it will immeasurably improve the atmosphere in our schools. more...

Funding: Required: R 400,000.00 Received: R 290.00 Outstanding: R 399,710.00 Contribute Now ComMin Soccer Field Dream (211) A field where a communities dream can be realised. A place of common ground between rich and poor, black and white, brown and yellow, advantaged and disadvantaged. A level ground where everyone has an opportunity to reach their destiny.   more...

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BHP Billiton Growing Dreams in Sharpeville

 

BHP Billiton Growing Dreams in Sharpeville

 

When Dreamfields and our founding sponsor BHP Billiton headed out to Sharpeville on a crisp autumn morning we were doing more than just bringing joy to the children for one day. We were there to give this community of 11 primary schools the resources and inspiration to make football part of school life for 2013 and many years to come.

 

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Meet the Dream Coaches

 

 Take a look at this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnfUPbrguEc

Imagine what we could do in our schools with more people like this;

This ball of fire is Glen Mothibe, a teacher and coach at Rakale Thabang Primary, a school in the Pretoria community of Ga-Rankuwa. He has been coaching the school teams for two years and whatever he is doing it seems to work. His team won this particular match, held to launch the first ever Ga-Rankuwa DreamLeague, by a comfortable margin.

Mothibe has been coaching Rakale Thabang’s footballers for two years and he’s very excited that the DreamLeague will give them more regular opportunities to play and learn. “With league soccer we are going to get more of a chance to develop skills,” he says. “One day some of these girls may even play for Banyana Banyana.”

Teachers are at the heart of everything that Dreamfields is trying to achieve. They are our Dream Growers in Chief.

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It All Began with a DreamBag

Back in 2011, we received an email that filled our hearts. It was from Marlize Keyser, a teacher at Ysterplaat Primary in Cape Town, who wrote to Dreamfields regarding the football equipment we’d given her school the previous year:  “You changed Ysterplaat Primary with one DreamBag.”

“That one bag gave the children a purpose, pride, a sense of belonging and responsibility. It's a great tool for good discipline in the classroom, because as a teacher and coach the kids know that they won't be allowed to play the next match if they don't do their work or hand in projects."

“When I started teaching at Ysterplaat three years ago there was no sport and we struggled with kids involved with drugs, gangs and poor discipline. Today we have four soccer and four netball teams, regardless of the fact that we don't have a field to practise on and that we have never played a home match before. We applied for Lotto funding and are hoping for the best.”

Hoping for the best … Sometimes the best happens to people who take hope into their own hands. Last August, we heard from Marlize again, to say that Lotto had awarded Ysterplaat Primary R180 000. “We want to spend our money in the best possible way,” she wrote. “Can you please advise us on where we can find an affordable trustworthy landscaper?”

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