Racquets For Ghana! - Project Launch
Hi Tennisopolites,
It is the start of a new year and the start of something great: Racquets For Ghana!
Recently we gained a new member named AA Majeed that is doing great work in northern Ghana. Majeed is spreading the game of tennis and bringing happiness to the economically disadvantaged children there.
I think this is a great cause, so Majeed and I launched this project to collect used (and new) tennis gear for these children in Ghana that are playing with makeshift wooden paddles and old tennis balls. The pictures are worth a thousand words. Hopefully we can generate some interest (and a stack of kids racquets for that matter.) Here are the details and pictures.
So, please look through your closets, talk to your tennis friends, scour the local thrift stores, post on your local craigslist "wanted" section, and collect a stack of racquets and/or shoes to send to our headquarters in Maryland.
Thanks for your help.
Please let me know if you have any questions or ideas.
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Permalink Reply by Mark / The Mayor on -
Anyone here on board to collect Racquets? It is actually a lot of fun checking the thrift stores and hitting garage sales. Would love to hear about other people's scores. My son and I have already collected about 5 racquets in no time! Will post some pics soon.
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Permalink Reply by Mark / The Mayor on
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A quick update from here. I have 4 racquets, and a promise of 4 more. We have another guy here in the ABQ area collecting for RFG! and I met someone online who has said that he is collecting too.
A generous woman here in ABQ has donated this stringer to RFG! - It is an older stringer, probably worth about 200 bucks. (Mjeed, do you think it will be useful to you?)
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Permalink Reply by Mark / The Mayor on
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Post a message like this on your local craigslist Wanted section. It works great!:
Hi. I'm gathering kids tennis gear for a disadvantaged youth program. I can pick up at your convenience. The kids will absolutely love any donation that you can make.
We mostly need:
kids racquets
kids sports shoes
If you need more information, please let me know.
Email, call or text me.
Thank you,
Mark
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Permalink Reply by Mark / The Mayor on
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We just found a couple of more racquets! Found this at a local junk shop. The shop wanted 5 bucks a piece and they had mismatched covers on them. We explained RFG to the owner and told her we didn't need the covers, and she was nice enough to sell the pair to us for 6 bucks! Throw them in the stack!
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Permalink Reply by A A MAJEED on -
wooooow that really sounds good to hear.....i have also received some old tennis balls from a friend so far...
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Permalink Reply by Mark / The Mayor on
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Old tennis balls are very easy to find, but I think since they are heavy they will be very expensive to ship. I wonder if there is a better way to get you balls. By the way, the red, orange and green balls are much lighter than yellow.... maybe we should focus on these types.
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Permalink Reply by A A MAJEED on
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Exactly.....i taught of the those balls but since that was wht the person is donating to me i could not reject but like you said the orange and red balls will be more appropriate.Hope all is going on well with you...Last i spoke with my club Chairman back in Ghana about the step we have taken to help develop the game in the Northern part of Ghana.He was so happy to hear from me.
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Permalink Reply by A A MAJEED on
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Mark that is really awesome ....
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