The R.H.S.R.C. was established to give our youth a positive alternative to spend their free time.
The founder member and current chairman of the club, Mr Chris Naidoo, was instrumental in establishing this club. His idea of opening a fully-fledged sports club in our community was explained to other very influential sports personalities viz. Daya Maistry, Jayce Singh and Paulen Murugan. Together these gentlemen worked tirelessly convening meetings with other sports bodies, schools, parents and other role players in our area and thus the birth of the RESERVOIR HILLS SPORTS AND RECREATION CLUB.
Soccer was introduced at the outset and the response was phenomenal. The club later introduced netball, basketball, volleyball, karate and boxing. The RHSRC believes that sport will, undoubtedly, have a positive effect on the child’s development and trusts that such healthy activities will steer our children away from the vices such as drugs, alcohol, smoking and criminal activities.
The Club serves children from the Reservoir Hills and surrounding areas. A large number of children come from the nearby informal settlements. These under-privileged children are not in possession of the basic needs and the club ensures that the basic training gear is provided to these children so that they are not made to look indifferent to the other children.
The clubs activities are not confined to children only. A walkers club has been established for senior citizens. Training sessions are held twice a week for the senior people. Bowls has also been introduced for our seniors and they seem to be enjoying every bit of it.
One of the fundamental reasons for a club of this nature is to ensure that the children are offered opportunities to engage their free time in positive activities. Sport is an exceptional way to keep our youth away from the many negatives that are currently destroying them. Besides offering them this positive alternative, the club also believes that with the proper coaching, motivation and guidance some of these talented children could earn a living out of playing sport and this would be a springboard out of poverty for their entire families.
We have recently embarked on a social responsibility programme. Collection of food and clothing is done on a regular basis. Our recent winter warmth collection was a huge success. The clothing and blankets collected are distributed to informal settlements within our community. Feeding the under privileged is done on a regular basis. We encourage our members and the community at large to contribute towards this worthy cause.
Our committee members are as follows:
Chairman: Chris Naidoo
Vice Chairman: Paulen Murugan
Secretary: Selvan Pillay
Treasurer: Jayce Singh
P.R.O: Benina Mkhonto
Other Committee members are: Sielan Murugan, Sugar Singh, Michael Johnson, Shaun Singh, Jason Chetty, Raymond Chetty, Preggie Pillay, Eric Bezuidenhout, Linkesh Hemraj, Shirley Sewpersadh, Daya Maistry, Busiso, Bobby, Slindile, Makhosi.
