One of our Dyfed-Powys beneficiaries turned 18 this year and after the amazing success of his A Level results he is taking a year out of education before heading off to Swansea University next year. He will spend this year working as a teaching assistant, lifeguarding for children with additional needs and enjoying travelling.
Llew wanted to thank the Fund for the support he has received over the last 8 years and especially for supporting his recent rugby trip to South Africa.
“I know that you have continually supported my love and passion for rugby as well as helping with driving lessons and IT equipment for my school work. I really am grateful.”
“I thought I would share a few highlights with you from South Africa. We landed in Johannesburg on 16th July and had our first game just 24 hours after that. We lost by one try which was disappointing but the winners were one of the best schoolboy teams in South Africa so we were pleased at the same time.”
Llew travelled from Sun City to Cape Town and Soweto playing another three games on the tour and tells us that in all his years of playing rugby, two of those games played in South Africa were his favourite ever. The games were streamed live and he has watched them repeatedly since being home, “…I wish I could go back and do it all over again.”
A highlight of the trip for Llew was the day his team spent in the townships coaching a school. He gifted an old rugby jersey to one of the students. Llew expressed his appreciation of the day, “I really wish I had boots that would have fitted him as he was desperate for rugby boots. That would have been the only thing I would have changed about the trip – taken a pair of extra (and much smaller) boots. It really made me appreciate what I have. I hope he will remember the day, as I certainly won’t forget it.”
A two-day safari was Llew’s other highlight of his rugby trip. He and his team saw giraffes, rhinos, hippos, buffalos and lions which were only five feet away. Llew went on to tell us, “The only downside of the trip was it had to come to an end…it surpassed by expectations by light years. I can’t express how brilliant it was and I can’t thank you enough for supporting it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”