Jumping Kids joins What’s Your Epic campaign championed by Team Driepoot
Two longstanding Jumping Kids charity ambassadors, Reuben van Niekerk and Dane Wilson, have partnered with Össur South Africa and Amarex for the ‘What’s Your Epic’ campaign to fundraise for the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund in the lead-up to the 2025 Absa Cape Epic (16-23 March) that the duo will be participating in. Össur’s What’s Your
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Jumping Kids trio represent RSA at the Dream Program
Three South Africans associated with the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund were invited to represent their country at the 2025 edition of the Dream Program that took place from 6-19 January in South Korea. Bongani Mahlangu, Edwin Nelson, and Simnikiwe Bosman; all three of which are lower limb prosthetic device users, were selected by SASCOC to
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Sunshine Ladies Tour golfer, Stacy Bregman partners with Jumping Kids
The Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund (Jumping Kids) today announced its partnership with professional golfer, Stacy Bregman, currently in action on the Sunshine Ladies Tour with the next event teeing off at The Joburg Ladies Open (18-21 April) at Modderfontein Golf Club this week. “It is my honour to formally announce our partnership with elite athlete,
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Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund sets the pace at Nationals
The 2024 edition of the Toyota SASAPD National Championships (21-25 March) in the Free State’s Bloemfontein saw athletes associated with the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund (Jumping Kids) producing some stand-out results.
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Moving with Komatsu Foundation Trust
Amongst other commonalities in its vision, the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund (Jumping Kids) and the Komatsu Foundation Trust (Komatsu) share a goal of promoting access to mobility solutions and quality education for children in need of intervention. As far back as 2017, when this ‘leader in the supply of Japanese-engineered mining, construction, earthmoving, and utility
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Jumping Kids launches Mobility Games event in collaboration with SEMLI
On August 31st 2023, the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund (Jumping Kids) hosted its inaugural Mobility Games event in collaboration with SEMLI (The Sport, Exercise Medicine & Lifestyle Institute) at the University of Pretoria High Performance Centre. The aim of the event was to showcase the scope of the Jumping Kids initiative; a registered non-profit organisation
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Teen blade-athlete shines at National Para athletics Championships
Johannesburg, 06 May 2021 – This year’s edition of the Toyota South Africa SASAPD National Track and Field Championships, that took place at the Westbourne Oval in Gqeberha, re-ignited our ‘Passion for Paralympics’ on home-soil. The event produced three World records, eight African records, and numerous South African records while hosting some of the best
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Track & field championships ignite “new normal” flame
Pretoria, 30 April 2021 – This year’s edition of the Toyota SASAPD National Track & Field Championships, that took place in Gqeberha (24-26 April), re-ignited our ‘Passion for Paralympics’ on home-soil. The event produced three World records, eight African records, and 44 South African records with the best Para athletes from South- and Southern Africa going
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Empowering Africa’s child amputees
1 June 2018 – Three local organisations, active in the realm of prosthetic technology and sport rehabilitation, joined forces this week to host a pilot training program at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Ga-Rankuwa. The event, hosted from May 28th to June 1st, is geared to help SADC countries increase their level of support
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A strong finish
It is the start of a new year and, when reflecting on a challenging 2017, one thing is certain, Jumping Kids finished strong. To end 2017 off, we sent six of our young affiliates to the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games that took place in Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Portugal
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