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.

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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.
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How You Can Help

Thanks to the vision and generosity of our founding partners, BHP Billiton and Old Mutual, Dreamfields covers its own running costs — so 100 percent of everything you contribute goes to the young footballers. Contributions so far have come from giant corporations and eight-year-old children, from 60-year-olds in celebration of their birthdays and from small companies looking for an opportunity to put back.

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Featured Dreams:

Funding:
Required:	R	6,000.00
Received:	R	3,500.00
Outstanding:	R	2,500.00
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Kgomotso Matsunyane’s Alma Mater Dream (182)

Kgomotso Matsunyane has come a long long way in life – but she has never forgotten the people and places that helped start her on the road to becoming one of South Africa’s leading media personalities.

Kgomotso currently presents Good Morning Gauteng on KayaFM and her TV talkshow Late Night with Kgomotso was a huge hit on SABC2. But her journey to success began at Emelang Primary School in Zone 9, Meadowlands, Soweto.

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Funding:
Required:	R	108,000.00
Received:	R	6,500.00
Outstanding:	R	101,500.00
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Rhodes University's Primary Schools Dream (178)

Help Dreamfields and Rhodes University grow the Grahamstown DreamLeague

We love DreamEvents, our football tournaments where contributors and children celebrate their shared love of the beautiful game. But our major goal going forward is the creation of strong, well-resourced DreamLeagues in townships and rural schools - Woza Wednesday! It’s football time!

This is a goal we share with government. And in the city of Grahamstown, we have found another great partner. Rhodes University has a strong commitment to using its resources and expertise to make Grahamstown a better place. “Rhodes is especially committed to partnerships with historically disadvantaged local schools,” says Vice-Chancellor Dr Saleem Badat. “We aim both to enhance the quality of educational provision on the part of schools and to facilitate opportunities of a cultural and sporting nature.”

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Funding:
Required:	R	114,000.00
Received:	R	32,680.00
Outstanding:	R	81,320.00
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Justice Bekebeke’s Dream - This Field Tells Stories (151)

Contribute to Justice Bekebeke’s dreams of using soccer to transform the lives of the youth of Paballelo Township.

Visit the soccer field at the centre of Paballelo Township in the late afternoon and you will find young footballers hard at work – going through drills, working with the ball, reaching for their dreams. Never mind the rocks, the dust and the potholes – there is passion for football in this place.

This field has always been central to the life of this township in Upington, Northern Cape. It was here that people met during apartheid’s dark days to register their resistance and celebrate their shared belief that a better life could be fought for and won. And, of course, they also came there to play football.

“In Paballelo the only thing we could entertain ourselves with was soccer,” says Justice Bekebeke, Provincial Electoral Officer for the Northern Cape, who grew up there. “In my youth there were so many talented kids. If they had been born in Jo’burg where they could have been seen, we would still be writing about them today. But unfortunately, nobody ever got to know about them.”

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2010-02-16

From Holland With Love

Dutch entrepreneur, Salem Samhoud, was in Soweto 21 years ago when he came across an advertising billboard showing men, women and children of different races. The slogan underneath read: “Together we’ll build a brighter future.” And that stuck in his memory.

“At that moment I had an insight that I had previously seen as merely trivial – something imbued with a power that is too often underestimated or trivialized,” he recalls. “Together you can overcome anything, together you can achieve anything.”

With that in mind, Samhoud returned home and began setting up &Samhoud, a management consultancy that has achieved great success. To mark that success, Samhoud brought his entire staff of 110 people to Soweto to share with them the source of his inspiration.

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2010-01-20

Dreamfields gets Cooked in Africa

Before you read any further watch this clip.

Justin Bonello was on his way back to Cape Town when something he saw provided a moment of inspiration. Inspired is a word often used when people talk about Justin – his BBC-TV programme Cooked is widely praised and enjoyed for its passion and his cookery book based on the series is a best seller.

“I was driving back from filming in Somerset West one afternoon, and there were these impromptu soccer matches taking place on the side of the N2,” he recalls. “I started thinking: ‘Would I want my son to play soccer here?’ And the answer was no. We then started looking for a charity we could partner with.”

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2009-11-11

Tempest and Mango Take us Flying Past 900

The Dreamfields Project was carried past a most significant milestone by two very special partners – in exactly the right kind of setting. The venue was the small rural Free State town of Jagersfontein, about 100 kilometres south of Bloemfontein. And the contributors who made this possible were Mango and Tempest, who have been working with Dreamfields since early 2008. When partners Mango and Tempest decided to host a DreamEvent in the Free State, Jagersfontein was chosen as most of the players come from farm schools.

DreamEvents sponsored by Mango and Tempest have now been held in Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, Cape Town and in Free State. A total of 59 schools have now benefited from these two committed supporters of football for young people.

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