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This is the fourth year of the Gogolympics
it started four years ago but even before that in years prior to that
it really started because of two grannies one
South African granny named Cwengi Myeni and one Canadian granny named
Caroline Nixon
and the two of them met through our funder the Stephen Lewis Foundation
and they became very good friends and they came up with the idea
that's we could have such a thing as the Gogolympics. The Gogo project
started in 2006 and
from that time we have been encouraging the grannies to
do physical exercise so as to be
able to keep themselves fit. But then we got
people to help them do aerobics. Yes that was working but
even when we meet in the support group that we do some exercises
but it was not working well for us. Fortunately
there is someone that is coming from Canada
Caroline Nixon she started working and coming to South Africa in 2007
and she's a physical education teacher then in 2010
she suggested because she has been
working with us that how about if we do a celebration
because of all the successes that have happened in the project
after four years are few weeks ago I had grown to
24 crew and so we thought we must celebrate
and also to promote active healthy physical activity
and a so with my background as a physical education teacher and
and athletic director it just fit in perfectly for the two with inventive
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all people like as always people we're we suffer from chronic
with improved and if you all and get less says in physical a
exercise here that have satellites we have i three dozen Canadian grandmothers
at taking part and we have rather than having Canadian team
we put 33 Canadian Ben Ali's with each
of the global group and so it's a lovely way up
finding an and learning more about each other and we put it translated into
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I have some other Google to I don't speak very much sure
in life and I'll I'm here but together twenty two grandmothers been up of
Canada
were part of the grandmothers to grandmothers campaign at the Stephen
Lewis foundation at
I mean belong to one up to 150 groups in Canada
that fell at work you may find spire in Jakarta
African grandmothers and if trap has been attacked for a
to come anything for spam what's happening in the project team
to see the grandmothers that he lied about and
as to learn more about this story so that we can go back and tell Canadians
these grandmothers are our teachers they are the ones who are doing
than nominal work I wanna go home and well
tell our people who will tell others and it will just
keep growing we have just been meeting
amazing people they trained the grandmothers any
aunts and their children and the yield land
the work that help press does outstanding
I such a glorious events there the whole lotta young volunteers here
many other volunteers upon the Devin Youth Council have never been to a
township the whole
have never a bean to our community sports field of being a community school
and even for them you know the impact is huge because the
being things that they've never thing to have in your eyes opened to
how the majority of an african live and you know they leaving today even
feeling impacted and challenge to you to make it different for me today this is a
great success
and for me it's a dream come true I'm seeing
other organization people like minutes by DT coming
unfollowed for work with eyes people search come case that and sports waking
together with us which is very encouraging
and also think lenny is coming from kind I don't want the waves
to be here with us that is a few weeks excess
I see the focal Olympic going he got the question now is the IP for it but %uh
from other areas
with come to absorbs on said and another thing that when we're making
preparations people missing
you to all the papers in here yet yet it on the media
people have been for anyone to things that make lending to work with us from
other areas for the granny the goal Olympics is a day
if not a day that's I there to benefit anyone else not about their
grandchildren
what about the children it is a day and that's really
at the spirit of the day if the day for them to just
unlike the bed and sat on their shoulders forget about them larry is
that are traveling in mind
and just have fun just be together get to know grandmother throughout the
community that even at the country's and death
to have fun that the basic spirit of it of course
both all about encouraging the body to be fit and healthy and to exercise
I'd really the primary thing is simply that the day
just for them just to have fun just as a reward for
the huge burden that they've taken on in caring for their grandchildren and
really
being and the core of the community it's just all about them
celebrating and having fun also a new that thing is that then the of fans
they need to kid to take care of themselves
was they have a lot of work to do is give to look after their grandchildren
and even looking after themselves is important to keep them says
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super bowl-winning team i think is too but not as well Nason mark I am
is that they might cry and then that's impacting this time than now
I think they're the big future ahead for the guide Olympics
we on the four-year then and every year been bigger and better than last year
and I think it's only going to continue to get bigger and better as her with a
knife into the plan to discontinue
making its bigger allowing more banished to participate we had Canadian band is
with us
this yeah we'd love to see granny tell you other popular word being with us
next year
so that the event could be one that is really international and bring
people from all over the world and ELISA
different a pocket love I'll for the Italian
I just I have to tell you I love the event because I've
because I love the go-go's in the belly and I love their enthusiasm
you know what women at the same all over the world it's just that in some areas
they have more
another so it's just fabulous with some wonderful wonderful a bit