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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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We coudn't provide the services required without the invaluable help of these organisations...
Slum Projects
The Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya
In many African cities there are large impoverished areas. It is estimated that the combined population of Kibera and Mathare, the two largest slums in Nairobi, is more than three million. Thousands more live in two other slums, Kawangware and Mukuru.
The Mathare Youth Sports Association MYSA is the largest self help youth sports and community service organisation in Africa, and arguably the most successful slum project in the world. It has evolved as a self help project built around the desire to play sport. Basically if you want to play in a Mathare team, you have to be prepared to help clean up the slum. Alive & Kicking's HIV/AIDS awareness posters were developed with the help of some 60 MYSA peer educators, and when we embark upon our HIV/AIDS awareness Roadshows, we usually take a team of MYSA animators.
To find out more about MYSA visit www.mysakenya.org
MYSA buy Alive & Kicking balls, but another group working on youth empowerment in Kawangware under a Msingi Bora initiative supported by Plan International have recently received donated balls.
Plan's work is better understood by visiting their website www.plan-international.org
"Streetfootballworld"http://www.streetfootballworld.org is an organisation which targets less privileged, war-torn and impoverished communities, such as the Kibera slum. It aims to promote peaceful conflict resolution, non-formal education, crime reduction, social integration and good health.
Meet the Pastor who runs a project in a Nairobi slum