January 04, 2025

How your Dry January can help a child in need...

37 minutes

This is the tenth year we’ve done our Annual Fundraiser and thanks to our generous donors we’ve raised nearly half a million rand over the years – that money had provided the gift of yoga to more than a thousand underprivileged children.

If you’re wondering how a disadvantaged child could benefit from yoga then you’re in the right place to learn more from my guest

Janna Kretzmar who is the founder of the Earthchild project - and it’s the Earthchild project who have been the recipient of the funds we’ve raised over the last 10 years

Janna is an amazing woman - receiving the "Woman of the Future" award from Santam

In this episode:-

2024 will be the tenth year that Tribe Sober has collaborated with the Earthchild Project for the Dry January Challenge

Founder Janna Kretzmar tells us how she came up with the idea to start the project in 2007 - and why she thinks it's been such a successful project

She got the idea after working on an eco project in Brazil and reading a book by a yogi about a project in schools in India - these were her influences

She realised that it was important to partner with the schools/teachers for the long term - not just come in for short term projects and then leave

Earthchild Clothing paid the salary of their first facilitator so that's how they got their name

We talked about the power of positive role models in communities and how she is developing young leaders

Earthchild provides yoga classes, gardening lessons, eco clubs, hiking clubs - connecting the children with their bodies and the environment

The children come from communities with high levels of gang violence and unemployment - yoga provides a tool to help them cope with stress

Some of the children who started yoga classes when they were 6 years old are now young leaders working in the Earthchild Project

Janna reminded us of how the fundraiser worked and that just R250/£12/$16 will sponsor a child for a whole year of yoga classes

So whether you are in need of some support or just want to help an underprivileged child then please go to tribesober.com and you’ll see our fundraiser

Please help us to make our 10th Annual Fundraiser the best one yet!

Join our FREE January Bootcamp which starts on Monday 6th January - more info here!

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