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RUNNING THE EXTRA MILE: Tim and Carmin’s Journey with Chaeli Sports and Recreation Club

Tim and Carmin running Bay 2 Bay RUNNING THE EXTRA MILE: Tim and Carmin’s Journey with Chaeli Sports and Recreation Club by Tim Cubitt & Carmin Burton February 2024 We are thrilled to be part of the incredible Chaeli Sports and Recreation Club (CSRC) and to run in support of the Chaeli Campaign’s remarkable work[…]

THE CHAELI SPORTS & RECREATIONAL CLUB: Celebrating 13 years of inclusion through sports!

CSRC dancers became double world champions in Ballroom and Latin American in their respective categories at the Holland Dans Spektakel in 2015: Mukhtar Lee/Chantell le Roux (Amateur Class 2) and Damian Michaels/Chaeli Mycroft (Amateur Class 1). THE CHAELI SPORTS & RECREATIONAL CLUB: Celebrating 13 years of inclusion through sports! April 2023 Changing the lives of[…]

Comrades 2022 : CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Team Beastie (Chaeli, Chantal, Daleen, Gerhard)finish Comrades 2022 in 11:10:57 Comrades 2022 by Nikki Kemp August 2022 Chaeli is not afraid to challenge perceptions and go against the perceived norm; she is also no stranger to finding herself in the history books. In 2016, she became the first wheelchair athlete to finish the Comrades and[…]

Turning a setback into a comeback

Team Beastie: Pacific, Chantal, Chaelihaving fun at 2022 Cape Town Festival of Running Pacific Mbela by Nikki Kemp July 2022 Mandela Day is a day sanctioned by the United Nations and is commemorated on the 18th of July each year on former President Nelson Mandela’s birthday to honour him by making a difference by inspiring[…]

taking a tumble …

taking a tumble … June 2022 Follow on Instagram: @zeldagroblermycroft Follow on Twitter: @MadMomZelda Rwanda, country of a thousand hills, is beautiful. Chaeli was invited to speak at the 2022 Commonwealth Youth Summit (ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) in Kigali. The first takeaway is how wonderfully hospitable Rwandans are and the second[…]

Welcome to the family!

The Chaeli Campaign Staff ‘Family’ : 2021 Building Relationships and Growing Community by Rosemary Luger May 2022 The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that 15 May of every year shall be observed as the International Day of Families. The day reflects the importance that the international community attaches to families as basic units of society[…]

Pursuing Happiness

Top: Boeta & Tina taking a moment at the finishBottom: Team Boeta tackling Suikerbossie Top: Team Leigh cruising through MuizenbergBottom: Leigh celebrating a birthday at Chaeli Cottage Pursuing Happiness by Shelly Stedman April 2022 Most people don’t know it but 20 March is International Day of Happiness. The day was established in June 2012 after[…]

Follow the science

Rosemary Luger, supervising Occupational Therapist from The Chaeli Campaign Framing possibility and supporting change by Zelda Mycroft February 2022 On 11 February the world celebrated International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Only 33% of researchers are women and, according to www.unwomen.org  “women account for just 22% of professionals working in artificial intelligence and[…]

little feet and wheelchair footrests …

little feet and wheelchair footrests … February 2022 Follow on Instagram: @zeldagroblermycroft Follow on Twitter: @MadMomZelda Becoming a mom is the second best thing that’s happened in my life … becoming a grandmother has to rank top of the pops! All the joy of welcoming a bright little life into this world without the discomfort[…]

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