Meet the beneficiaries, heroes and initiative ambassadors...
selected to share their stories since becoming part of our growing Jumping Kids family. Our initiative is championed by a roster of individuals advocating to create awareness of our mandate, including some of the country’s top Paralympians.
Dané Badenhorst
Associated with Jumping Kids since 2024
Dané Badenhorst from Meyerton in Gauteng became a Jumping Kids beneficiary this year, 2024, after her parents reached out to the organisation for prosthetic assistance and rehabilitative advice.
Dané was born...
Asante Sedibeng is a lively, confident young learner at Hamilton Primary School in Pretoria, Gauteng. He has big dreams for his future and strong opinions about what it means to...
Anika Koekemoer from Potchefstroom was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, of her left leg in August 2019. She immediately started chemotherapy but after two cycles it became evident...
In 2010 Puseletso Mabote underwent an emergency amputation after a truck crashed into the family vehicle on the way to school. The accident claimed his right leg from above the knee...
Lethabo Magoo from Gauteng, South Africa has been a Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund beneficiary since 2022. He is a single below-knee (BK) prosthetic device user who is coping well with his...
Kgotso Letsoalo, who matriculated from Hope School Johannesburg in 2023, has been a beneficiary of the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund for his entire school career.
As a one-year-old, Kgotso contracted Septic...
Jayden Van Heerden was born prematurely at 32 weeks with a physical challenge known as amnio-band syndrome – a condition occurring in the womb that did not allow his left foot to...
Nashe Muza from Mpumalanga, South Africa has been a Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund beneficiary since 2013. From a young age, Nashe was encouraged to be her lively self and to actively...
In 2014, Kitso Mokolometsa from Potchefstroom was fitted with his first set of bilateral sports prostheses, also known as running blades, through intervention from the Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund.
The then...