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DP World container completes its global journey
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2/15/2025
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It was March-April of this year, they contacted Junior Golf Foundation and just wanted to
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find out a little bit more about junior golf in Kenya and to see whether this project would
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be beneficial for Kenyans and juniors in Kenya.
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I jumped at it, I was really excited about it and I sent them all the information about
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Junior Golf Foundation and we became one of the beneficiaries, so very excited about that.
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Well, I've got 35 schools with 51 sessions a week and 300 golfers that really can't afford
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golf balls, so yeah, it's going to be incredible for us. Having a thousand kids on the program,
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you know, they do tend to lose balls and need balls and so it's absolutely awesome that we've
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got this wonderful container of balls for us. Golf in Kenya is a very expensive sport and we're
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trying to make it mainstream, so we're trying to bring it in all the schools, we're trying to make
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it a PE subject. One of the things Junior Golf Foundation is doing is we're buying a lot of
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equipment for children who cannot afford to play golf to be able to play golf, so this initiative
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ties into it because now we have the golf equipment and now we have the golf balls,
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which is everything that a child needs to start playing the game without investing anything in
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the game. If you're disabled in South Africa, we will subsidize you 100% to play golf. Any
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golfer in South Africa that cannot afford to play golf, we've got preferential rates at golf courses,
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we've got preferential green fee rates, we have coaching for the golfers, so we've been very
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lucky in that if you are disabled in South Africa, you will be able to play golf and golf for them is
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therapeutic and really great. We cannot say thank you enough, I mean, I cannot even begin to tell
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you how desperate we are for balls and, you know, especially being so far away that they
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actually thought about us is also incredible, being at the bottom of the world and not, you know, in
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the limelight, so it's really, it's going to help us so much. I mean, I wish you could actually come
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to South Africa and see how beneficial it's going to be for our kids. Thank you so much, thank you
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for really even thinking about this initiative, about JGF and considering us as one of the
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beneficiaries, we are truly, truly blessed and we're truly, truly grateful.
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