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The eLan Rugby Legends is a group of ex-Springbok rugby players who have formed a Charitable trust. The express purpose of the trust is to raise funds for the development of rugby at grass roots and Club rugby thus providing a vehicle for the ex-players to put something back into rugby. The main purpose of the Legends brand worldwide is to highlight the plight of amateur rugby due to the advent of professional rugby. All money in rugby goes towards the professional code of the game and this has led to the neglect of the amateur clubs on a worldwide scale. Today the eLAN Legends has grown into a full blown social awareness charity using Sport as the catalyst to bring people together and then evolving their sport aspirations as well as educating them about health, wealth and social characteristics. We have embarked on a sustainable Legacy Park project which has become our flagship, whereby over a 10 year period we are raising One Billion Rands to build 400 multi-purpose facilities in the economically disadvantaged communities to help our country solve their sport and social challenges and as a consequence will feed 500 000 street kids PER DAY.
Iqhawe Programme Iqhawe - translated "Hero" or "Champion" in Xhoza- is a project run by the South African Rugby Legends Association to raise the bar on rugby development throughout South Africa. The South African Rugby Legends Association has coached 35,000 children from all backgrounds in the last five years. The original module of running one-off programmes in which a training session was held - without any context - had no real impact on them or their game. The South African Rugby Legends decided that they wanted to do more for the young aspiring players.
"Adopt-a-School" The ever-proactive South African Rugby Legends Association, who have a number of far-reaching projects under their belt already, are addressing the need to transform and develop not only rugby but also broader education needs at a grass-roots level by creating their Adopt-A-School programme. For the last year CEO of South African Rugby Legends Association (SARLA), John Allan who is a former Springbok, Scottish and Sharks player, has embarked on a nationwide campaign to get the 100 top schools around the country to enlist in the Adopt-A-School programme.
The JAG Sports and Education Foundation was formed in order to give the youth of South Africa an opportunity At a recent banquet, amongst others, Bruce Fordyce, Robbie Fleck, Nick Farr-Jones, Pieter De Villiers and Elana Meyer all attended. For more information, visit their website www.jagfoundation.com
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