Junior high athletes fundraise for Swedish handball contest

2024-04-25

Junior high students in Kaohsiung are fundraising for a trip to Sweden, to compete in a major handball contest. The handball teams of Yangming Junior High have long dominated the domestic leagues, in both boys’ and girls’ sections. The boys’ team previously visited Denmark to play against other young people from around the world. Now it’s the girls’ turn to head to Sweden. But will they make up the funds they need in time? Let’s head to Kaohsiung for more.

This group of students is the girls’ handball team of Yangming Junior High, Kaohsiung, and they’re fundraising to go compete overseas.

A member of the public caught this footage and put it on social media, in the hope of helping them raise more money.

Yangming Junior High is famous for both its boys’ and girls’ handball teams, which have won clutches of gold and silver medals at handball tournaments across Taiwan. In 2019, the boys’ team represented Taiwan at the Dronninglund Cup, Denmark’s international youth handball tournament, and went home undefeated after 11 wins. Now it’s the girls’ team who want to go compete in the cup in Gothenburg, Sweden in July.

Huang Meng-yun
Yangming Junior High, Kaohsiung
Altogether eight students and one coach will go together, for about two weeks. Since the pandemic, the expenses for one person will be at least NT$100,000.

When the boys’ team went abroad before, they fundraised on the street too, and this time the girls are raising money, with their parents in support.

Chang Yung-fen
Yangming Junior High principal, Kaohsiung
The Department of Education will cover some of the expenses, NT$25,000, I think. The Sports Administration will also cover NT$15,000. The remainder will of course be the school and parents, and the community, everyone working together. Actually, strictly speaking, they haven’t raised a whole lot of money, but the parents wanted to make the kids realize, it’s not that adults should stump up all money, so they can experience how money doesn’t grow on trees.

These girls are working hard to make their dreams a reality, and whether or not they come home with a trophy, they’ll have plenty to be proud of.

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7月赴瑞典參賽陽明國中女子手球隊街頭募款籌旅費

2024-04-25

高雄市陽明國中女子手球隊今年七月將到瑞典哥德堡參加「國際手球分齡錦標賽」，為期兩周的時間，但北歐物價貴，一個人的旅費就要十幾萬，扣掉教育單位的補助，每個人可能還是得出十萬元以上，因此家長帶著孩子上街頭募款，希望能一圓孩子出國比賽的夢想。

她們是陽明國中女子手球隊的球員，正在為出國比賽募款。

民眾拍下這一幕，放上社群平台，希望能夠大家能夠多多捐款，幫助她們。

陽明國中不管男子還是女子手球隊都相當有名，在國內大小賽事中不是第一就是第二。2019年男子手球隊也曾經代表台灣，到丹麥喬陵蘭參加國際手球分齡賽，以11戰全勝的戰績抱回冠軍盃。這次換女子手球隊七月要到瑞典哥德堡參加國際手球分齡賽。

[[高市陽明國中學務主任黃孟筠]]
“總共有八位學生以及一位教練隨行，預計大概兩個禮拜左右，疫情後(一個人)大概的經費，十多萬是跑不掉的”

其實男子手球隊之前出國比賽就曾經上街頭募款，這次女子隊也是比照辦理，家長都有在後頭陪同。

[[高市陽明國中校長張永芬]]
“教育局會出部份的經費，我記得是二萬五，體育署也會出一萬五，不足的經費當然就是學校跟家長，跟社區大家一起來努力，其實他們籌募的經費嚴格來講沒有很多，但是家長就覺得要讓孩子感受到，不是大都應該要幫他籌好，讓他體會到得來不易”

自己的夢想自己完成，學妹們期盼能出國圓夢，抱回冠軍。

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