Making footballs that can save lives in Africa

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Making footballs that can save lives in Africa

Summary

100 stitchers are making tough, repairable leather soccer balls & volleyballs in Africa for kids who hardly get to see a proper ball. Each ball carries a simple HIV/AIDS or Malaria awareness message. read updates from the field

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	$20 - Will pay for a leather ball to be stitched and delivered to a school or other worthy recipient group
	$40 - Will pay for 2 leather balls to be stitched and delivered
	$100 - Will pay for 5 leather balls to be stitched and delivered
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The opportunity to play sport in Africa is inhibited by a chronic shortage of balls. There is no large scale ball production on the continent, and imported balls are expensive and largely inappropriate for the tough playing conditions. Alive & Kicking is addressing this problem by making balls in Kenya, Zambia & South Africa from local leather and selling them at cost. Over 140,000 balls have been made to date, each carrying simple awareness messages on HIV/AIDS and Malaria.

Activities

We make affordable balls so that youngsters from poorer communities are able to play more sport. We also create awareness of preventable illnesses by printing messages on each ball and distributing our awareness posters featuring sports personalities

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,389
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $494,610
Total Funding Goal: $500,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

We plan to avail 100,000 balls yearly to encourage young people to participate in sport and enhance their life skills. These same people are most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, so we plan to distribute our awareness posters to all 24,000 Kenyan schools.

Project Message

We very much appreciate the contribution that Alive & Kicking is making to reversing the spread of HIV in Kenya through sports, and your efforts to avail good quality leather balls to our schools.
- Enos O. Oyaya, OGW, Director of Education

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Martin Barnard,
Managing Director
Hyundai GoDown No. 3
Behind Visions Plaza, Mombasa Road
Nairobi, N/A PO Box 27641 - 00506 Nbi
Kenya
254722530216
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Alive & Kicking Kenya
Hyundai Go Down No. 3
Mombasa Road
Nairobi, N/A Box 27641 Nyayo Stadium
Kenya
254 (0) 20 2045481
http://www.aliveandkicking.org.uk

Learn more about Alive & Kicking Kenya and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Sport.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 12, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 22, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Score4Africa Awards

By Martin Barnard - Managing Director, November 07, 2008 06:11 PM

I'm happy to announce that Alive & Kicking hve been awarded one of the inaugural SCORE4Africa football awards, presented by AFFORD - the African Foundation for Development, in recognition of the good work being done by Footballers or Footballing Organisations in Africa.

Our work was recognised as the most enterprising football initiative in Africa.

The ceremony was conducted at a gala dinner held in the House of Lords. Other recipients included Didier Drogba, George Weah and Arsene Wenger - so it seems our hard work is being recognised in high places!

For more info on AFFORD and the event, please visit www.score4africa.org

Have posted a photo of Didier Drogba with his award and one our balls in the gallery.

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