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Surfing gets South Africa’s homeless kids off streets

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A 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and onto Durban’s South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand.At the end of the day, he’ll return his surfboard to a nearby community center and then curl up on a downtown sidewalk to sleep.

Wonder is among a dozen young black boys taking to the waves every day through a community group called Umthombo, which is coaching street kids in surfing and other sports to keep them off the street while providing counselling to find more lasting solutions to their problems  …  Details

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