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Alive & Kicking make cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV/AIDS and malaria.
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Alive & Kicking South Africa
Our first Stitching Centre in South Africa is now operational!
In 2007 three trustees from Alive and Kicking UK travelled to appoint a Managing Director of Alive and Kicking South Africa. They appointed Rukia Cornelius, previously of Treatment Action Campaign, and she started work in October 2007. Already balls are being produced and a health and wellness programme for the stitchers is under way.
Pictures from the first HIV session with the stitchers
Left: The Ice Breaker - Makoti leading the group in dance.
Right: Charmaine Leading discussion on how HIV can be transmitted and how not.
Left: Pupils at Desmond Tutu High School, which was one of the first schools to recieve balls donated by the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation.
Right: Another ball donated by the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation. This time at a relief centre in Wellington.