Cape Town, South Africa (CNN) -- Baseball is virtually unheard of amongst South Africa's poorest communities, but in one township it is changing children's lives.
Coaches started teaching baseball in Philippi township on the outskirts of Cape Town, an area blighted by drugs, crime and poverty.
It has given a positive focus for children who grow up in cramped accommodation with hundreds of thousands of other families, living in shacks with no heating, power or running water.
Coach Nyameko Gabada, who introduced baseball to this community four years ago after South Africa did well in the World Baseball Classic, said: "I found there's a lot of crime that's abusing the children of this place".
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