2012-05-30 13:50 Project Playground I just read an amazingly touching article in one of our online newspapers as I sip my morning coffee and wait for the sun to rise over my beautiful Cape Town. The article states that children who grow up in poverty, absolute or relative, suffers from bad health, produce worse school results, lack self-esteem, and are more likely to be victims of violence.

2012-05-14 15:46 Project Playground Hey people Kwany is in the house. My weekend was fabulous because I went to visit my aunt in Khayelitstha because I was avoiding my friends and there at my aunt house one thing I love there I don’t go out because I don’t have friends at all. And I go there because I want some fresh air…

2012-05-10 15:56 Project Playground At Project Playground we want to enhance positivity. Happiness and hope. Lots of people show pictures of the suffer and struggles that people have, starved babies, abused women or amputated soldiers. Which, in many ways, are great because it is reality. But the reality is also that in a lot of places were the social and economic status is very low there is a happiness you cant find elsewhere.

2012-05-02 09:28 Project Playground On friday we celebrated Freedom Day in South Africa. For the last 18 years democracy has ruled this nation, and the ones who were born just as apartheid ended may now also cast their votes in the elections.

2012-04-19 10:57 Project Playground The Chaeli Campaign was founded on 6 August 2004 by five girls between the ages of 6 and 12. Chaeli Mycroft, her sister Erin and lifelong friends, the Terry sisters Tarryn, Justine and Chelsea started The Chaeli Campaign to raise R20 000 for Chaeli’s motorised wheelchair.

2012-04-16 15:29 Project Playground I realized some time ago that I should have begun the section about the participants by introducing you to the young lady who I am now about to present. WHY? Because she is the seed that created the beautiful and vivid Play on Wheels flower that exists today.

2012-04-12 14:38 Project Playground Project Playground has become a chapter in many peoples life.

2012-03-30 14:45 Project Playground The fourth participant is a girl with mild celebral palsy. What fascinates me most about this girl is that I have never seen her in a bad mood. As soon as you greet her, talk to her and look at her she smiles and laughs, She loves the attention.

2012-03-29 14:43 Project Playground A singer and a dancer. That is how I would describe the next participant that I want to present to you. Her nickname therefore came very naturally to us. We call her “Lady Gaga”. In the beginning her musical interest wasn´t very obvious though.

2012-03-28 14:40 Project Playground The second participant I will introduce to you in my serial story about the Play on Wheels participants is a young lady with Down Syndrome. It is a girl with a strong personality! The most apparent characteristics so far are her stubbornness and determination.