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.
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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.
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
Total Funding Received to Date: $14,641
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $485,358
Total Funding Goal: $500,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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.
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
Joel Kinuthia
Country Manager
Hyundai GoDown No. 3
Behind Visions Plaza, Mombasa Road
Nairobi, N/A PO Box 27641 - 00506 Nbi
Kenya
254722530216
Email:
Alive & Kicking
Hyundai Go Down No. 3 Mombasa Road
Nairobi,
N/A
Box 27641
Kenya
254 (0) 20 2045481
http://www.aliveandkicking.org.uk
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.
This project was last updated on December 31, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 22, 2007
By Isabel - Awareness Coordinator, December 31, 2009 11:22 AM
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