The Giovanni van Bronckhorst Foundation, with its programme S.V.GIO, has been committed to making children captains of their own future since 2012.
Being the captain of your own future means that you are able to formulate your dream and convert this into a concrete goal, you have the self-confidence to achieve this goal, you are optimistic and you have basic skills, such as reading, writing and arithmetic that are necessary to achieve this goal.
They do this by offering children from grade 7 and 8 a 5-month programme where, through an intensive coaching programme, resilience is improved, through an educational programme, work on improving reading comprehension, spelling and arithmetic. Sport is used as a metaphor for both the coaching and education programme, but also contributes to a healthy lifestyle. All this is topped off with a good dose of fun. The foundation believes that when a child has fun, everything sticks better.
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