{"id":5036,"date":"2016-10-12T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T17:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2019-03-22T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T16:18:44","slug":"education-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/education-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Education is the Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DIM_2150-1030x686.jpg\" alt=\"dim_2150\" width=\"1030\" height=\"686\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Education is the key,<br \/>\nLet us rewrite history,<br \/>\nOn the fields we will learn,<br \/>\nAnd our lives will take a turn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grassroots Soccer is the place,<br \/>\nWhere we begin to chase,<br \/>\nOur dreams, big or small,<br \/>\nWe are supported through it all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Laureus Foundation run the show,<br \/>\nAnd enable us to grow,<br \/>\nSelf confidence and respect,<br \/>\nTheir involvement is direct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From land to sea we travelled,<br \/>\nOur love for surf unravelled.<br \/>\nUncontainable joy and pride,<br \/>\nWhen we get up for the ride,<br \/>\nTo stand up for ourselves,<br \/>\nInto our full potential we delve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Working with local groups,<br \/>\nRallying international troops,<br \/>\nWhen we all come together,<br \/>\nWe create bonds that we\u2019ll treasure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">United by our common goal,<br \/>\nWe all need to play our role,<br \/>\nGive more, consume less,<br \/>\nLet\u2019s clean up this mess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These poems were inspired by our activities today which included joining the Grassroots Soccer Programme and Waves for Change surfing programme in the Khayetlisha Township, just outside of Cape Town. We were moved by how the Laureus team use these sports to both instil life skills as well as build confidence in the youth. We were overwhelmed by how much joy and love the children had to give and thoroughly enjoyed interacting with them on the soccer field and in the waves. Our team took away many learnings and insights including the power of sport as a means of uniting and connecting people and the ability to empower through creating a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s encouraging to know this isn\u2019t country specific and we\u2019re excited about how we can all better utilise sport to connect and empower our communities.<\/p>\n<p>By Leni Greundl &amp; Saskia Bauer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Education is the key, Let us rewrite history, On the fields we will learn, And our lives will take a turn. Grassroots Soccer is the place, Where we begin to chase, Our dreams, big or small, We are supported through it all. Laureus Foundation run the show, And enable us to grow, Self confidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,169],"tags":[163,31,120,187,132,22,49,126,181,170,194,43],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pole2pole","category-sharkstudy","tag-act","tag-adventure","tag-explore","tag-laureus","tag-learn","tag-mike-horn","tag-pangaea-2","tag-pole2pole","tag-shark-project","tag-sharks","tag-soccer","tag-young-explorers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}