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💬 This was amazing!
💬 We're learning so much!
💬 Great presentation!
💬 Thank you @kovinmoodley and @braaaice!
Our coaches, and even two former coaches, joined the @sportways_sa webinar this week again. The result? A lot of increased knowledge, a bigger hockey family and these fantastic smiles!

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From Zambia, Malawi and Uganda we say: Happy African Freedom Day to everyone! #africaday #africanfreedomday #zambia #malawi #uganda

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Oh, how we miss this! 🧡 We can’t wait to be back on the pitch again with our excited kids 🤟🏾

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We are SO overwhelmed to be part of the @sportways_sa webinar today 💥⚡️ Not only did @kyle_marks3 and @blakegoosen teach us all about the different zones of the hockey pitch and how to maximise your teams’ potential, but most of all it was an amazing gathering of African hockey. Thank you all and we’re looking forward to develop our sport together even more! 🏑

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Hockey development in the Netherlands 🌟 Since the hockey competition is still on hold and there are many social initiatives to introduce hockey to kids who are not always able to join a hockey club, we decided to support some local projects. Happy to say Stichting Hockey Voor Iedereen can now play with some of our donated equipment and making #hockey more #circular again 🏑

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To all amazing (hockey) moms out there: have a wonderful #mothersday! 🧡 Check out more coaches and their moms in our stories 👉🏾

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Today is #GivingTuesdayNow. The global threat touches every person on this planet and therefore this day is set up as a response to the needs caused by Covid-19. We are humbled if today you make a donation to a organisation that you love most, and if that’s us we’ll be even happier. No amount is too little! You can support our team of coaches by making your gift to help them protect themselves and their families and continue our work. #Donate through 👉🏾 #linkinbio. Thank you! 🧡💛

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Where would a succesful team be without its excited supporters?! 🙌🏾🥳

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Remember those first steps of holding your hockey stick? 🤟🏼🤟🏾🤟🏿 (Picture taken before COVID19)

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You can tell our coach @shadr9 LOVES our great sport! 💛💫 Oh that smile! 😃

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It’s so important to teach our kids all the steps of playing hockey to get the right technique 💥 Here we see our coach @ke.lvin8924 explaining the ‘look-at-your-watch’ to this boy who had never held a stick before in his life. Who else knows this handy how-to-skill? 💡

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When schools are not open, you take school home 📚🎓 Our coach Miss Makayi deserves a 🌟 status!

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HANDS UP 🌟 Because it’s our birthday! 8 years of sport for development and we’re super proud. Want to give our coaches and kids some positive wishes? Leave them in the comments 👇🏾 THANK YOU ALL!

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Ever wondered what happens to the equipment we collect? We expand the life cycle of sticks, balls, cones etc. by using them in our camps and training sessions. Most important rule in this: learning our kids to share. ✨ Fun fact: we shipped over 400 sticks to Uganda, Namibia and Gambia in 2019 and currently have over 1000 ready for transport. So you feel like helping us out, at the moment we are good with that part and would be absolutely delighted for donations 🤩 Check #linkinbio.
Note: this picture was taken before Corona-times.

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No hockey on International Day of Sport for Development and Peace for our coaches and kids. But let’s all focus on the moment we can get back to our team mates and enjoy the sport! In the meantime, we challenge everyone to take part in our #nopitchchallenge (check our high light ⚠️)

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Join in! 🤩🤟🏾🏑 #nopitchchallenge

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A good smile to brighten up your day 🔆

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Giving a positive twist to a crisis situation ✴️ In Malawi, we turned a hockey camp — that was planned this weekend with support of @knhb_nl — into an educational workshop. With the emergency status just announced there, our coaches invited a doctor 👨🏾‍⚕️👩🏾‍⚕️ to inform the kids about the virus, precautions and how to deal with it. Time to put that into practice and wash hands! 💦🤲🏾 There won’t be playing hockey, but the kids will receive the food we always facilitate during our camps. Stay safe everyone!

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We’re in this together 🧡💚 We would love to take you back to a few weeks ago when we organised the @redbeansespresso League in Zambia and shaking hands between coaches and kids was not a big issue. Due to everything that’s going on, we take the right precautions and make sure everyone stays healthy. Let these pictures be the example of how it will be again in the (nearby) future! 🤝

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A very BIG high five for our female coaches from Uganda, on #internationalwomensday part 2 ;)

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Actually, there shouldn’t be an International Women’s Day, since our girls / ladies / heroins are the exact 50% of everything we do and strive to be. But as long as there is, we see the best opportunity to put them in the spotlight 💥

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One of our, but even more one of our kids’ favourites: the relay! 🏃🏿‍♀️🏃🏾 So much fun to cheer for your team mates and super excited when it’s your turn. It’s hard to sit still at the end 🌀

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“Our equipment is the most important tool, without it we can't play. First lesson of the day, let's take care of our equipment”, 💬 Malawian coach @ulemu_lele at the Kanjedza Primary School. The kids are taping back the grips to the sticks, and then start playing hockey!

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It’s day 2 of the camp in Zambia, and our coaches started off the day with a very essential part. They lectured the kids during a workshop about the importance of hygiene on your body and clothes and how to do that properly, at home and after work out 💪🏾 We always add a related, social topic like this to our camps. Because we feel like it is the perfect moment to teach so many kids about it and has such great value to do by our own coaches, with their mentoring role.

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Our hockey camp in Zambia takes place this weekend, and it’s already the end of day 1. It was all about working together, techniques how to protect the ball and the correct hockey stance. Get ready for day 2! ⚡️

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It’s camp time in Lusaka! 🤟🏼 We’re starting the day with some dancing and singing to get those muscles warmed up 🤩

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Warming up in Malawi ⚡️

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💬 “Best trip ever”
💬 “Fantastisch experience!”
💬 “So many impressions”
💬 “The enthusiasm on the pitch is so contagious”
Just some previous participants talking about the African Hockey Experience. Are you joining us this year? 🇺🇬🏑☀️

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First steps into being a hockey future star one day, is learning the right techniques 💫 This and much more is part of the African Hockey Experience 2020. Curious? Check out #linkinbio to find out!

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All the way from our African communities, we would like to thank hockey club @herakleshockey for supporting us this year again. Here’s a message for you! 🤩

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If you don’t have a board or paper to explain the drill, you use what you do have 🔆💡

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One of our programmes, is the Hockey Dreams Trip. A full-month-internship for coaches who have achieved specific milestones within our Academy. We set up a filled schedule in the Netherlands, and everything they learn they bring back to their community. The result is amazing: we see the quality of trainings and camps increase, and therefore the entire organisation profits of this. Last summer, it was the turn for @lawrencejohan to be invited. He wrote a blog about his experiences, which you can now read through #linkinbio.

BIG thanks to @wingsofsupport, @kamponghockey and @sportwayshockeycamps for making this Dream Trip possible!

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These kids had never seen a hockey stick in their life before, when our coaches introduced the sport to them. Coach Martha giving 100% of het energy and the kids had the time of their lives. This took place in Mukambi, a tiny village in the central part of Zambia, which we visited during the African Hockey Experience in 2018 (check out the link in our bio to see the possibilities to join this year’s edition!).

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