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Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa. After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in […]

With Handball active for a climate change – Play Handball Supercup 2018 in Delft, Cape Town

South Africa, Supercup,

Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa.

After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup 2018 on the 27^th of October 2018 at Hindle Road Primary School, Delft, Cape Town, South Africa. (more…)

PLAY HANDBALL: Anja, how do you know Nicola Scholl and PLAY HANDBALL, how did the contact come about? Anja Althaus: I’ve known Nico for many years, as a fellow player and later also as an opponent. We played together in the youth national team and in Trier I played with her sister, Kathrin Scholl. So […]

Interview with Anja Althaus: A matter of the heart with two “crazy chickens”

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PLAY HANDBALL: Anja, how do you know Nicola Scholl and PLAY HANDBALL, how did the contact come about?

Anja Althaus: I’ve known Nico for many years, as a fellow player and later also as an opponent. We played together in the youth national team and in Trier I played with her sister, Kathrin Scholl. So I know the whole family very well and both of us were always the crazy chickens in the youth team. At some point our handball ways have been separated, but I have always followed what Nico did. (more…)

Play Handball Supercup 2018 in Benoni

Community, Event, South Africa, Supercup,

Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa.

After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup 2018 on the 20^th of October 2018 at the Sinaba Sports Stadium, Daveyton, Gauteng. (more…)

Link to article: Benoni City Times, publication 22-10-2018 The Play Handball Supercup came to Daveyton’s Sinaba Stadium on October 20. It is the first handball and environmental tournament series in South Africa. Hosted by Play Handball ZA, teams competed in an u-14 mixed-team tournament as well as preformed various environmental tasks on the day.

Super handball action at the Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton

Community, Event, South Africa, Supercup, Tournaments,

Link to article: Benoni City Times, publication 22-10-2018

The Play Handball Supercup came to Daveyton’s Sinaba Stadium on October 20. It is the first handball and environmental tournament series in South Africa. Hosted by Play Handball ZA, teams competed in an u-14 mixed-team tournament as well as preformed various environmental tasks on the day.

Karibu Kenya! PLAY HANDBALL Supercup the first time in Kenya to educate trainers and hence children around environmental friendly behaviour and how to deal with the waste situation. We use Handball as a tool to create learning experiences for the youth around important socio-political topics such as environmental awareness. With its flagship project the PLAY […]

Karibu Kenya! Play Handball Supercup in Kisumu

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Karibu Kenya! PLAY HANDBALL Supercup the first time in Kenya to educate trainers and hence children around environmental friendly behaviour and how to deal with the waste situation.

We use Handball as a tool to create learning experiences for the youth around important socio-political topics such as environmental awareness. With its flagship project the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup going in its third year in South Africa, the model was replicated in Kenya, making it the first country outside South Africa to organise and host such an event. Play Handball Kenyan office organised this first environmental handball programme in partnership with the Federal Republic of Germany Embassy in Nairobi and Konrad Adenauer Foundation Kenya in Kisumu, Western Kenya on the 13^th October, 2018. (more…)

As part of the Handball & Environmental Programme Play Handball Kenyan Office organised a three day Train-the-Trainer workshop on Environmental Education that was held from the 10th to 12th October, 2018 at the YMCA Centre in Kisumu, Western Kenya.

Handball for UNSDG13 Climate Action – Workshop & Clean-Up

Event, Kenya, Supercup, Tournaments,

As part of the Handball & Environmental Programme Play Handball Kenyan Office organised a three day Train-the-Trainer workshop on Environmental Education that was held from the 10th to 12th October, 2018 at the YMCA Centre in Kisumu, Western Kenya. (more…)

Sum will be divided among three charity organisations / “Aufwind Mannheim” gets the main share / Other two winners are Play Handball and Right to Play/ Support from Rhein-Neckar Löwen, fans and team partner Suzuki Around 30,000 euros: This is the amount that the joint donation campaign by Rhein-Neckar Löwen and Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz […]

Donation Campaign of Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz brings about 30 000 Euro

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Sum will be divided among three charity organisations / “Aufwind Mannheim” gets the main share / Other two winners are Play Handball and Right to Play/ Support from Rhein-Neckar Löwen, fans and team partner Suzuki

Around 30,000 euros: This is the amount that the joint donation campaign by Rhein-Neckar Löwen and Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz brought in. The former Leuven star, who moved to Paris St. Germain on 1 July 2018, had declared during his comeback in the jersey of the DHB Cup winner that he wanted to donate the three monthly salaries he would receive as a result of his return to good causes. (more…)

“I play Handball already my entire life. It means friendship, social values and just fun to me.“ Matti volunteered for 5 months at “PLAY HANDBALL ZA” in Cape Town. He taught handball at two schools, the public primary school St. Mary’s and the German school in the afternoon area. In Cape Town he lived with […]

Interview with the volunteer Matti Schubert

South Africa, Volunteer,

“I play Handball already my entire life. It means friendship, social values and just fun to me.“

Matti volunteered for 5 months at “PLAY HANDBALL ZA” in Cape Town. He taught handball at two schools, the public primary school St. Mary’s and the German school in the afternoon area. In Cape Town he lived with a family from Zimbabwe in Woodstock. (more…)

Link to the article on news24 Learners from Lavender Hill will now be able to play handball thanks to a German volunteer who has dedicated his time to teaching the learners the sport.

Learners embrace new sport

South Africa, Volunteer,

Link to the article on news24

Learners from Lavender Hill will now be able to play handball thanks to a German volunteer who has dedicated his time to teaching the learners the sport. (more…)

Piketberg is a farming community on the Cape-Namibia-Route. There are only limited activities for kids after school available. In January 2018 we introduced the first time handball at a children sports day to the community.

Handball is a new sport in the farming area of Piketberg

Event, South Africa,

Piketberg is a farming community on the Cape-Namibia-Route. There are only limited activities for kids after school available. In January 2018 we introduced the first time handball at a children sports day to the community. (more…)