IC PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION (ICP) – UPDATE JANUARY 2021 The past year has presented challenges to everyone and the pandemic has meant that many of our programmes were put on hold. Most of those on hold are communicating with their players online and post videos with challenges and activities for children to try at home and to keep them active and engaged. Some programmes are preparing to open. The ICP programme organisers have sent us short reports on their 2020 activities that we would like to share with you:

BUENOS AIRES (IC of ARGENTINA) The IC of Argentina is promoting the Development of for mentally handicapped children in schools in Buenos Aires. The programme, “Iniciacion en Tenis para Ninos con Discapacidad Intelectual” was due to start in 2020 and we had positive conversations with schools and potential participants. As soon as circumstances permit, we will start. In the meantime, our partner charity, Fundación Baccigalupo, supported by Gabriella Sabatini, is keeping their 700 children active. They are promoting a programme LaFundaEnCasa at all venues to generate on a daily basis a variety of exercises and sportive/cognitive challenges with all the kids through videos which they can do at home. In this way they keep active and the Foundation monitors their activities. It’s inspiring to see and the children’s families are very grateful. The enthusiasm to start the ICP programme stands high and strong.

AUSTRALIA (IC of AUSTRALIA) The Ken Rosewall Regional Project (KRRP) was launched in 2016 to provide tennis coaching in schools and communities in regional, rural and often remote areas of Australia that would otherwise find it difficult to provide free lessons to their students or to attract tennis coaches on a regular basis. The programs have been managed and delivered by Kids Tennis Foundation (KTF), honoured that one of the game’s true gentlemen, Ken Rosewall, whose name is synonymous with Australian tennis, agreed to be involved with this project. In excess of 7,000 children in Australia received coaching over the past 5 years thanks to the Ken Rosewall Regional Project and the wonderful support of CQS and ICP (2016-2020) and the Yulgilbar Foundation (2016-2018). Many testimonials from schools and communities say it all! They confirm that the programs, through the KRRP, provide the children with an opportunity not normally available to them. They also provide a great role model through the coach, foster tolerance and co-operation between children of many varied nationalities and cultures, promote a healthy lifestyle, improve other social and communicative skills and boost self-esteem and self-confidence. Across the world, 2020 has been a very difficult year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. KRRP programs were conducted in Term 1 but came to a sudden halt when the virus hit. Consequently, due to travel restrictions and with students not at school, the programs were not run in Term 2 or Term 3. There were some very special programs held in some areas of Australia in Term 4 - one of the highlights being The Kimberly Tour. Thanks to the KRRP and the ICP’s wonderful support, there are smiles on the faces of many more children in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia. Thank you ICP.

BIRMINGHAM (IC of GREAT BRITAIN).There has been no change from last update. The Edgbaston Priory Club Community Tennis Programme in Birmingham is run predominantly at two main community tennis venues: Cannon Hill Park and Lordswood Community Tennis Club. It targets deprived areas of Birmingham, providing participants with the opportunity of being introduced to the game of tennis, to benefit from the values that the coaches transfer to the children and to enjoy facilities and equipment near their homes. The programme is broader than just teaching the participants how to play tennis; it also promotes core values and disciplines during the sessions such as respect, punctuality, healthy eating, hygiene and sportsmanship, amongst others. It also promotes a team spirit rather than individual success through different types of exercises and activities. To achieve this, the programme runs different activities to reach the target profile of participants, running junior coaching programmes, visiting different schools in the area to motivate kids to join the programme and running open day events. The coaching programme stopped on 23 March 2020 in line with UK lockdown guidelines. However, during lockdown activities were set up for everyone in the local community via social media e.g. quizzes, challenges, zoom sessions – please visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EPCTennis/ The coaching at Lordswood resumed on 22 June, running the programme 3 days a week. Cannon Hill is still waiting to restart the programme, as public court usage has been extremely high since tennis was allowed to resume. All programmes are currently on hold.

KEP, CAMBODIA (IC FRANCE) During this year, the programme, “Tennis Kep Cambodia”, has carried out several initiatives with the help of many partners, members and volunteers. We are based in the province of Kep in a region with poor economic and social resources, where children have very limited access to schooling and extra-curricular activities. On site, the programme offers children the opportunity to participate in various sports and activities, all supervised by volunteer teams. Within the centre we have limited facilities - a tennis court, a mini tennis court and a wall for hitting, as well as a multi-activity field. Last year we welcomed around 100 children until mid- March when we had to close. We offered a series of benefits, including the distribution of snacks and raising awareness of hygiene issues. The tennis activities are very popular with children and we pay particular attention to the upkeep of the concrete ground as well as of the adjoining welcome facility. Three groups of children took part in the activities. The 80 children involved, 60 boys and 20 girls, on average aged 6 to16. Activities were spread over 10 weeks and offered at a rate of 20 hours per week, 3 times a year. Each month, children who have told us about special wishes (artistic, excursions, French national holiday) have the opportunity to participate in an activity. The more involved children participate in our organised tournaments. This allows us to follow their commitment and motivation to play. We rely on the support of volunteers who occupy a central place in the system. To keep continuity in the programme and maintain the atmosphere of closeness and friendliness that children seek, we have decided, during this period of closure, to maintain the compensation of our two central volunteers at 80%. The team of volunteers maintained contact with the children while the virus circulated through the country. They took part in village tours to check on the health of families and provided everyone with hydroalcoholic gel. None of the ASKep children have declared any COVID infection. The latest photographs can be found on the AS Kep Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/askepofficiel/

SANTIAGO (IC of CHILE) “The Aprende Jugando” programme of IC Chile was significantly impacted by the global pandemic. 2020 was a very difficult and complicated year for everyone, but it was especially hard for those poorer groups of society in Chile, for various reasons including the lack of access to technology and lockdowns in areas where the virus hit strongly. The key target of our work is young boys and girls between 9 and 16 years. Tennis for them is an extra-curricular activity that adds value to their normal school and life. Unfortunately COVID-19 hit the community severely and kids were not able to attend school or practice tennis. It was not possible to organise on-line activities because of the lack of hardware and internet at their homes. We are sure that a tennis on-line program would have been very important for mental reasons. We tried to do this but it was impossible. We continued to support our head coach financially during the year. We have worked on designing the tennis program for 2021, and are hopeful that we should be able to resume normal activities during 2021. We hope year 2021 will bring us health, happiness and a return to normal times.

ETHIOPIA (IC GERMANY) Good news: Tariku Tesfaye, founder and manager of TDKET in Addis Ababa, reports that none of "his" kids was infected by COVID-19 in 2020. Yonas Gebre, who was one of the first children in TDKET about 20 years ago, has successfully finished his studies in the USA and has returned to Addis Ababa. Shortly before his return, he received a very special award. His former college in Idaho declared him as "the most valuable player of the whole state in the last decade". The challenge: one of the two tennis courts fell victim to road works. The demolition and construction works took place without prior notice and came as a shock to us all. Tariku and his older students started to restore the second tennis court. Tariku complained to the local government and thankfully he was allowed to take back part of the land. He was able to re- construct the second court with help from the kids. Great collaboration!

JAFFA (IC of ISRAEL) At the Israel Tennis Centres, children learn life skills that enable them to demonstrate adaptive, positive behaviour to deal effectively with the challenges and demands of everyday life. The “Embrace” Program is built on a foundation curriculum of 10 themes designed to teach methods of communication, socialisation, normal behaviour, team work and discipline. The recreational, sports and educational activities for each month focus on one of these themes, with emphasis on setting personal goals, understanding rules and boundaries, taking personal responsibility, making the right decisions relevant to drugs and alcohol, participating in sports and healthy living, developing trust and care, dealing with emotions and feelings, learning effective communication and coping with pressure. In addition, the children receive academic tutoring and homework help, promoting learning and studying skills that lead to academic and ultimately personal success. Since COVID-19 started, we have moved to keep in touch with the children: 1. We have bought tablets for the children at risk so that they can connect to social networks and Zoom activities. 2. We have maintained telephone contact through the managers and staff at the ITEC – Jaffa. 3. We sent videotaped tennis training via WhatsApp and Facebook for training at home/in the yard/garden. 4. We started Zoom support group with a Social Worker.

IC Israel plans to continue with this activity through social networks and to add lectures and additional activities this year in case we need to stay closed outside the tennis centers. Also, we intend to combine Chigong activity with Batsheva Mandel (President of the IC of Israel) to provide Psychological Counselling where needed.

LUXEMBOURG (IC of LUXEMBOURG) “Letz Play”, the programme model which we set up in 2019 had to be altered because some of the immigrant families involved were able to return home and others have been housed in social housing away from a viable tennis centre. This programme will bring in poor kids from the Social Office into families known to a functioning tennis school. The Social Office is a state entity, which looks after families which are in social and economic need. These families are allowed to buy their food in what we call "Cent Boutiques". These are grocers who sell food and first necessity items at discounted prices to people who have to show a special document which proves their need for assistance. The Cent Boutiques, as well as the social workers in one of the less well-off regions in the south of Luxembourg, have committed to help us recruit the children. Children will be invited by them to participate at a recruitment day on 20th September, where kids may play tennis. Those who are keen to pursue the sport will then join an existing tennis school infrastructure. We will organise separate lessons for them and/or mix them with other kids, depending on the number of children we reach. We have also teamed up with Club “Tennis Frënn Bettembourg”, where two IC members are on the Committee and are supporting the programme.

MEXICO CITY (IC of MEXICO) In conjunction with The Municipal Sports Commission, the IC of Mexico sponsored programme, “Tenis para Todo el Mundo”, supports underprivileged children from the local schools between the ages of 6 and 16. Approximately 450 children have taken part to date. This is a vulnerable community with a high exposure to drugs; the programme aims to foster a positive attitude and a strong work ethic and approach to life that may help the children to overcome some of the challenges they are likely to experience in such an environment. All activity has been stopped in 2021 because of Government orders. We don’t know when this will change, but we hope it won’t be long with the introduction of the new vaccine, when we would expect to reopen.

AMSTERDAM (IC of NETHERLANDS) The year 2020 for our programme, “Streettennis Project Reigerbos”, started with our regular indoor training program, three days a week for about 60 children aged 6-16 years. The highlight of the indoor season was the finals of the Krajicek Tennis Tour, a competition between teams from all the Krajicek Playgrounds in the Netherlands. The finals were conducted at the Ahoy/Rotterdam stadium at the same time as the ATP World Tour Tournament. Besides playing in their finals the children were also given the opportunity to watch the professionals play. Our teams in the age groups 10-12 and 13-16 were both very successful by winning their championship! Shortly after this we were struck by the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in the cancellation of all our training activities on March 9th 2020.The lock down lasted till May 2nd; after which we were allowed – under strict protocols – to start the (outdoor) training again. We had to ensure social distancing (1.5 meters!) and hygiene measures, disinfecting not only hands but also rackets and balls on a regular basis. We were able to start our indoor- training programme in October despite the partial lock down which, we felt, was a notable event. Unfortunately, due to a recently proclaimed hard lockdown by the government, we have had to stop all our activities from 15th December 2020. For more information, pictures and video's, see our website: www.jeugdtenniszuidoost.nl

AUCKLAND (IC of ) We began 2020 with a new Head Coach, Campbell Cramer-Roberts, who had previously been recognized as Coach of the Year in 2016 by and had recently retired as Head Coach at Glendowie Tennis Club in after 27 years of service. The ACE Programme is held at low decile primary and intermediate schools which we use as a proxy for reaching disadvantaged children. Campbell reconfigured our ACE Programme Lessons to cater for a full class size of 24-30 disadvantaged children. Each lesson starts with a different “ball sense” game that correlates to the life skill for the day. Children are then split into 4 groups and rotate around 4 “stations” during the lesson. One station includes a ball machine; children are initially taught to catch the soft balls from the ball machine, progressing over the 8 weeks to hitting the soft balls with rackets. Children are given life skills homework in conjunction with their teacher and must report upon it the following week. One lesson is planned to be held at a local tennis club; transport to be provided in conjunction with the school. The ACE Programme commenced on 12 February 2020 at Bairds Primary School, a decile 1 school in Otara, Auckland with 29 disadvantaged children. We held 6 lessons through to 18 March 2020 until COVID-19 interrupted the programme. We also held a Teacher Professional Development lesson on 16 March 2020, instructing the teachers how to use the equipment and lessons for the other classes at the school. As a consequence of successive COVID- 19 lockdowns and considerable uncertainty, the remainder of the Bairds programme was not completed. The other planned programmes during 2020 did not commence. The feedback from the teachers at Bairds on the new lesson configuration was excellent and a step up from the ACE Pilot Programme run at Bairds in 2019. As a special treat, the Bairds class was taken to the match between New Zealand and Venezuela on 6 March 2020. Here, they learned life skills and etiquette associated with watching tennis.

VOSLOORUS and KENTON-on-SEA (IC of SOUTH AFRICA) Over 250 children from the local schools have been taught tennis skills through these two programmes. The children are given tennis coaching, tournament experience and taught life skills in a safe environment in areas which are rife with unemployment, drugs and alcohol. Vosloorus A year that we hope will never be repeated. That really sums up 2020 from just about every angle due to this awful COVID-19 pandemic. The year started well and ended well, but in between there were around five months when no tennis or any form of social activity took place. We started the year with a friendly match against Janet Jooste’s Academy in nearby Alberton where our boys and girls both came away victorious. It was a wonderful opportunity for our children to meet, play against and socialize with children from outside their normal environment and something that would have been repeated had circumstances allowed. Training continued until towards the end of March when the lock down occurred. No training or sporting activity was allowed until restrictions were gradually lifted in mid August. Initially we were limited to the number of children allowed on court at any one time and strict conditions were laid down in a protocol for both the coach and players to observe. It was not until well into September that we could look at full training. The coaches were “redundant” during this time and reluctantly we had to reduce their stipend by 50% for a period of five months. Realizing the hardship this caused, especially for those coaches with families, Tennis SA made donations of food parcels for the period of lockdown. When we resumed full training, tournaments were slowly introduced with strict conditions that no more than 50 people could attend an event with no parents, coaches or spectators allowed. We supported the three one day events hosted by Gauteng East Tennis Association from September to the beginning of December. Two of our players were invited to attend the trials for inter provincial teams for 2021 and both acquitted themselves well enough to ensure they would be invited to attend further trials in 2021. Both were selected to represent their province in 2020. Following the trend from last year we were able to give some of our players the experience of playing in tournaments for the first time. One major development was the fact that with the president of Gauteng East Tennis Association, we were able to get the Vosloorus club officially affiliated to the provincial body and have players registered with Tennis SA. This has seen an increase in adults playing at the club together with a pleasing increase in children attending our program. We now have just over 90 children playing tennis on a weekly basis. A Parents’ Committee has been formed which will assist us in getting more children involved with the sport. A real stop/start year, but one where progress has been seen and we have the platform to move further ahead in 2021. Kenton-on-Sea. We started off in February 2020 with the usual twice-weekly coaching sessions, but with increased emphasis on playing sets. Also, a couple of sessions were held with our young Next Gen (Gr 2-4) players at the primary school. The school is allowing Khaya to do this during school time as part of their physical training classes. This stopped when schools were closed because of the pandemic. We have decided to start again in 2021. For the older children, virtual communication or training is not possible. Some of the kids or their parents have cells, but data is a problem. During Lockdown we held an environmental challenge. We asked the kids to start with cleaning up their immediate surroundings. Then they had to make a toy, gift or useful item using waste items. The winning item was water dispenser for washing hands - a 2 litre plastic bottle with a small hole near the bottom. The hole was plugged with a straw and the bottle filled with water. When the cap is removed, the water drips out of the straw and one can wash hands using water sparingly. No wastage from taps. This is also useful where there are no nearby taps. The Life Skills clinic has been postponed to 2021.We will either conduct a 2-day camp or a few sessions on separate weekends. Topics will probably include pollution, to which they have had an introduction, AIDS, Gender Based Violence, Self-Esteem, and other topics. These topics will be in addition to the ongoing lessons in fair play, honesty, courage, perseverance that occurs during coaching. I am working towards empowering Khaya, our coach, to take on more of the management while I will continue to monitor. He is doing so well and has just been elected to be the District Representative for 3 municipal areas in the new structure of Eastern Cape Tennis, which covers from juniors to seniors, coaching, tournaments, trials and more. The Eastern Cape is a huge area and Tennis Eastern Cape has decided to restructure the Eastern Province so that it can be managed more efficiently with a view to giving all areas the same opportunities. 2020 has been a challenge for all countries. Lockdown has meant I could not travel to Kenton, the club was closed, school was closed and Khaya had difficulty keeping contact with the kids. In December, SA is in the second wave and some restrictions have been re- introduced although it does not seem travel, schools and clubs are subject to all the stringent rules as before. We would like to thank ICP for its continued faith in our programme, small as it is. We look forward to new highs in 2021 as soon as some degree of normality returns.

BARCELONA (IC of SPAIN). “Children with Learning Disabilities”, the program for Special players offered by the Acell Federation and supported partly by the IC Philanthropy Foundation program, has been strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with on court practice reduced drastically. The year started with regular practice with all participants attending all sessions. After March 13, all players attending the tennis sessions (29% female and 61% male) saw their practice limited. The Acell Federation coordinated all online activity which enabled all participants to keep active both physically and mentally. The coaches, even though they were all under the Special regulations laid down by the Spanish Government, kept day to day follow up on the players in support of their new online activity. After the summer break the sessions started again on court, but were again suspended at the end of October, limiting again the on court practice. This was maintained until the end of the year. During the last term the coaches volunteered once again to keep online or telephone contact with the players. On court practice is planned to re-start on January 14 2021. Competitions have seen a postponement of the dates and new dates will be set at the next Annual General Assembly of the Acell Federation.

MONTEVIDEO (IC of URUGUAY) During January and February 2020, our programme “Growing Up with Tennis”, was very active with the summer ‘Support Groups’. On March 13th all school classes were suspended. During the quarantine, which lasted until July, we were immersed in a communication change. We were able to achieve a lot by using internet tools such as: Zoom, WhatsApp, Crea (a platform of the National Administration of Public Education). We maintained a fluid contact with a large part of the pupils, reaching the 6 schools which integrate our programme through a weekly feedback, emitting and receiving educational videos and received an acceptable percentage of participation from the children. Among the videos we shared were tennis exercises and live interviews from Uruguayan young players. We had appointed two of our juniors as “Ambassadors”, namely Guillermina Grant and Francisco Llanes (who had participated in the Tokyo finals of the Junior Challenge). Although our coach worked almost full time between mid-March and beginning of July we agreed on a substantial salary reduction. The money saved will go to our 2021 budget. On June 29th the whole country opened its educational centers, primary and secondary, public and private. We had meetings with all School Directors, to coordinate and guarantee the start of activities in their present form under the new protocols established by the government for the ‘new normality’. Activities in process, with the integration of a new center (School #248 of Borro neighbourhood) and with some modifications include: • Classes to be divided in half. • The majority of the groups to receive one class weekly. • We have reached the level of 200 kids in total. This will go up to the extent that the protocols permit. • We must reopen some still inactive centres and/or add new ones (Pando and School for Blind).