28 December,2010 08:23 AM IST | | Sai Mohan
A group of third-generation South African Indians formed a football club by the name of Brotherhood FC five years ago within the community of Chatsworth, an area here in Durban that was created in the late 1960s for the use of Indian population only. Their basic aim was to get the children off the streets and people from poverty stricken areas through football.
They are also assisting people in their community with other projects such as food schemes and basic uplifting projects. Next year, they are going to raise funds to have a local Indian school rebuilt. "Our aim is to be a community-based club in which we will reach out to community members in whatever way - socially, financially or morally.
We want to help get poor kids to a semi-professional level of the game," spokesperson Veron Singh said.
The club is named Brotherhood because it stands for the vision of wanting to create a brotherhood sense within the Indian community of South Africa. "Watching these kids grow and get into the right walk of life is our motive. We have changed how the society has changed. There is so much corruption on the streets of Durban.
We are motivatingu00a0 them to get out of bad habits and put them on the right track," Singh added.
There is a cricket academy in Chatsworth that gave rise to India-origin cricketers such as Yusuf Abdullah, Imraan Khan and most recently Jonathan Vandiar.
Khanu00a0 is the current skipper of the Dolphins andu00a0 Amla (Ahmed) was the previous skipper. It once again states that indian origin players from chatsworth have made a telling impact on the provincial cricket here.
