Each Kriki for Shore beach cricket set is created using waste material including plastic and bottle-tops collected from South African beaches, creating work opportunities for coastal community crafters and waste collectors.

There are two different types of Kriki sets: 100% hand-made sets that focus on a message of ‘reusing’ waste (each bat is made entirely from waste material collected in coastal communities); and moulded plastic sets made from 60% recycled plastic that aim to educate on how useful waste plastic can be. Each set includes a bat and a ball and wickets.

This initiative follows from the successful and well-supported EnviroServ ‘touch rugby ball initiative’ launched last year. Touch rugby balls are made from recycled billboards and plastic packets collected from the streets of local communities.

K.E.A.G., a leading environmental NPO that specialises in managing projects that create employment opportunities to address environmental needs, is managing the waste collection for the Kriki sets and has partnered with The Harlequin Foundation who have an existing craft skills development project to make the bats. To date, 20 adults, 14 women who are sole bread winners and 6 disabled crafters, will benefit from the skills and work generated through Kriki for Shore, by creating these high quality beach cricket sets. The more orders the initiative gets the more people that can be trained and the more days of work that can be provided.

Each Kriki for Shore set that is ordered generates two days of work for a craft art trainee. Kriki for Shore sets will retail at R185 each with profits being reinvested toward making more sets.

The Kriki for Shore cricket set is sponsored by EnviroServ in partnership with SuperSport ‘Let’s Play’.

“Kriki for Shore is part of EnviroServ’s ‘Play Clean’ CSI project, that looks at ways of getting South Africans to have fun while cleaning up their environment”, says Delia Lavarinhas’ EnviroServ’s marketing director. In keeping with our brand slogan ‘Raising the Waste Game’ we thought what better way to communicate this, than to once again show how useful and fun sports equipment made from waste can be. ”

Says Vaughn Bishop of Let’s Play, “We focus on promoting a more active, healthier society and getting families playing beach cricket this summer is a great way of doing that. We look forward to seeing kids learning cricket skills while playing on cleaner beaches.”

For more information visit Kriki For Shore on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. To order sets email [email protected] or call 076 656 8370.