The balls...
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
Alive & Kicking South Africa, the home of our newest production site, currently employs 30 stitchers from the local community. Gaining confidence and skill every day, our stitchers are currently each producing a ball a day. Our production site is attached to Mossops Leather Tannery.
Our Supporters
In the short space of our existence our balls have already been distributed far and wide including: at Africa Day Football matches by The Western Cape Premiers Office; 150 balls donated to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund birthday for Madiba; 40 balls distributed at the Street Soccer Festival hosted by the Sport Department of the Premier's Office; 120 balls to a Euro 2008 event in Vienna. Other donors who have supported us include: The Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation, The Ottot Stehlik Foundation, Drakenstein Muncipality, Mossops Western Leather, and Football Foundation SA. We are hugely thankful to all our donors and supporters!
Our Health Programme
Alive & Kicking South Africa is following the Alive & Kicking model by printing educative health messages relating to HIV/AIDS and TB on our balls, to benefit ball recipients - the youth of South Africa, most at risk from these diseases. We are also working closely with our stitchers to improve their health awareness and development. As part of our health and wellness programme, stitchers are benefiting from a series of health training sessions which include advice on how to get tested for HIV, and which also look at the stigma and discrimination attached with HIV.
Left: The Ice Breaker - Makoti leading the group in dance.
Right: Charmaine Leading discussion on how HIV can be transmitted and how not.
South Africa News
- Alive & Kicking SA was officially launched on 15th April 2008. The event was attended by over 80 special guests, including Desiree Ellis - a 2010 FIFA World Cup Ambassador for South Africa, Dr Laurine Platzy - WC Co-ordinator 2010 FIFA World Cup, and Brent Walters - 2010 Economic Legacy Coordinator, Office of the Western Cape Premier. Councillor Arthorb Mzolise Petersen congratulated the team for creating opportunities for the local community and spreading HIV/AIDS messages.
- Alive & Kicking balls in Parliament - Alive & Kicking SA attended Parliament in May this year for Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool's Budget speech. 10 stitchers were taken to the event as special guests. 150 balls were distributed by order from the Premier's Office, bearing the message ‘Home For All'. To find out how Alive & Kicking brought a smile to Parliament, please read more in our newsletter below!