For SS4LS sport has been the vehicle for change. In order to provide the best opportunities, the SS4LS programme identifies the various sport requirements wherever the programme is applied.

The requirements can be for coaching (finding a coach, financially providing for a coach, teaching facilities), equipment (clothing, balls, nets, bats, padding) or facilities (clubhouses, sport grounds).

The Sport Skills for Life Skills programme provided equipment, long jump, cricket and netball facilities for Kerria Primary in Atlantis, coaching and indoor training facilities for Bellville Technical High School and a cricket net and fields for Muizenberg High, which has led to a 31% increase of cricketers and the establishment of a girls cricket team.