COLEG SIR GAR’s Football Academy is making international connections with an orphanage in India.
El Shaddai, ChildRescue, based in Goa, cares for and provides food, clothing, shelter and education for children from under-privileged sections on Indian society. The orphanage has created a football academy for its children and needed appropriate kit to help children train efficiently.
Through a Facebook post, Sports Academy staff and students responded to an appeal for disused sports kit and have donated five large boxes of clothing.
Mark Ludlam, learning resources manager at Gower College Swansea, works closely with the charity founder, Anita Edgar. He will be travelling to El Shaddai later this month. He said: “What started off as a single post on Facebook to friends has ended up like this. Schools and colleges all want to help.”
Sarah Hopkins, one of the curriculum heads at Coleg Sir Gâr, said: “I’m hoping at a later date that Anita and Mark will be able to visit our college as inspirational speakers and to explain to students how their donations benefited underprivileged children. Judging by the response so far, students will probably want to support the charity and perhaps help with fundraising which would also be a perfect opportunity to link with our Welsh Baccalaureate community and volunteering programme.”
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