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Talofa Handball!
Talofa Handball!
Hallo Handball is a project offering a taste of the popular international sport of Handball to young students in Samoa!
Our vision is to visit Savai'i and Upolu in April/May 2026 to give students (aged 12 -14 years old) from up to 12 schools the opportunity to experience a new sport and a new language. Handball is a popular Olympic sport in Germany and promotes fair play, fun and physical literacy. We also give the students the chance to learn some German!
We get kids playing fast!
We get kids playing fast!
We want kids to have fun! To learn new things by playing and trying new things. Our programme can adapt to any environment and class size.
The Plan
The Plan
Our plan would be to visit each school for at least half a day to introduce the sport and some basic German. After the school visits, we would organise an inter-school tournament for the participating schools. We would work with up to 28 students from each school. This could be a whole class or a selected group of students, keen to broaden their horizons. We run fun and engaging Handball training sessions and find that students easily learn a new language in an active, physical context.
Our Results
Our Results
We passionately believe in a healthy mind in a healthy body. "Mens sana in corpore sano". A new sport challenges the body. A new language challenges the mind. Check out what this principal has to say:
The Team
The Team
We are keen to bring this content based language learning idea to Samoa using Handball, a relatively new sport in this part of the world.
Frank Stoltenberg
Frank Stoltenberg
is a handball enthusiast and coach who emigrated from Germany when he was 12 years old. After missing Handball for several years, he founded the New Zealand Handball Federation, and remains an active player, coach and organiser. Frank has really enjoyed introducing a combination of Handball and the German language to schools in New Zealand.
Judith Geare
Judith Geare
is a Kiwi who has learnt and taught German for over 40 years. In 2020 she received an MNZM (Member of the New Zealand Order Merit) for services to language teaching and New Zealand-German relations. She has worked with Frank before and loves the idea of combining language learning with physical activities and fun.
If you wish to find out more, please get in contact with us, here.
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