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EgoliSquash: Empowering Youth Through Sport, Life Skills & Academics

Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else can. Sports can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.
– Nelson Mandela

Our Evolution: From Egolisquash to Egoli Youth Empowerment

Egolisquash began as a pioneering outreach and mass participation programme, using squash as a tool to uplift youth in Johannesburg and surrounding communities. Over the years, our impact grew beyond the court, encompassing life skills, academic support, leadership, and holistic youth development.

In 2024, Egolisquash evolved into Egoli Youth Empowerment (EYE) to reflect our expanded mission: empowering young people to thrive in all aspects of life. Today, EYE continues to build on the legacy of Egolisquash, offering a broader range of programmes and opportunities for youth across Gauteng.

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Many young people across the communities of Gauteng in South Africa live in marginalized areas with little or no hope for a meaningful and productive future. Our focus is on creating “positive” behavior, in the midst of these circumstances.

We empower young people by providing them with the platform and environment to be the best version of themselves. Our holistic youth empowerment model features sport, peer life skills development, team building, youth activation, and academic support.

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We foster access to sport and healthy lifestyle, to contribute towards youth becoming less prone to be involved in negative activities, which leads to safer and more cohesive communities. We achieve this by providing opportunities to engage in productive activities, develop leadership capabilities, life & work skills and strengthening young people’s resilience to the hardships of life.

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We engage vulnerable young people in activities that challenge them to develop skills, lead a healthy lifestyle, gain critical awareness, and participate in opportunities to create change in their communities.

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We empower youth by providing a platform for holistic development, focusing on sport, life skills, and academic support.

Education Access, Beating Poverty and Unlocking Prosperity

Our Homework Support and Bursary programmes create a deep well of opportunities for less privileged learners and a window of opportunity to realize their potential.

Community Service Program

EYE engages its youths to partake in community outreach programmes to teach them to be helpful and make a difference in other people’s lives as well.

Youth Skills Development

Our EYE graduates are given an opportunity to become junior coaches in our program, enabling them to continue playing and growing through squash.

Amaqhawekazi: Women in Sport

The program aims to bring about a sustainable change that builds a positive future for girls’ participation in lifelong physical activity.

Youth Empowerment & Life Skills

The program offers guidance, disseminates information on stages of growth, puberty, emotional changes, STIs and HIV/AIDS, early pregnancies, alcohol abuse, crime and other life issues that may affect the Inner-city, Soweto and Alex youths.

COLTS Future/ Emerging Champions Program

Our intensive high-performance programme includes weekly scheduled High-Performance sessions, nutritional education, strength and conditioning, and other development structures.

Schools Mass Participation Program

Working with our donors, we provide equipment and run training sessions free of charge to all participants. We have built and refurbished courts in Soweto to ensure continuity, as there is a major shortage of facilities.

EYE is working hard to address social issues by making sport, healthy lifestyle and fitness programs accessible and helping to increase a disadvantaged child’s chances of achieving excellence in sport, in school and in life.

Partnerships & Media

We partner with School Governing Boards (SGBs) and Sports Coordinators from the Inner-city, Soweto and Alex areas to promote squash. To date, we have partnered with 20 High Schools and 15 Primary Schools.

We facilitate local tournaments, School Challenges, and development projects targeting Deaf Learners and Women in Sport. Street Racket is also introduced to develop learning skills through fun games.

We are successfully utilizing social media as a powerful way to gain positive exposure and connect with the communities that we serve. We have received coverage through various media streams.

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  • Inner-city Gazette
  • Sowetan
  • Alex Caxton Newspapers
  • Sports Industry Group News
  • World Squash Newsletter
  • National SABC 1 Channel (YoTV Kidz News)
  • SportsBuzz
  • Sports on Fire Radio Broadcast
  • YFM
  • ANN7
  • PowerFM
  • SuperSport Lets Play