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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Partner organisations
We coudn't provide the services required without the invaluable help of these organisations...
Who do we help?
Primary Schools
Rural Primary Schools in Africa do not find it easy to find teachers. It is not unusual to have classes of 50 or 60 children. Read on »
Secondary Schools
In Africa it is not unusual for only about 50% of Primary School leavers to go on to Secondary Education. Read on »
Orphanages
The high number of deaths from HIV/AIDS related infections has resulted in an upsurge in the number of orphans in Africa. Read on »
Youth Organisations and Sports Clubs
A&K helps many smaller organisations in addition to the well known humanitarian agencies like the Red Cross, World Vision, and Care. Read on »
Street Children
A street child is someone who spends some or all of their time on the street and/or recieves part of their livelihood from working on the street Read on »
Slum Projects
In many African cities their are large impoverished areas conceived as being embedded with social ills. Yet many slums have developed their own civil society organisations to address their needs, A&K works with some of them. Read on »
Refugee Camps
Some countries in Africa have been plagued by years of conflict and civil war which have resulted in sizeable refugee flows. Read on »