Grassroot soccer harnesses the power of sport to engage young minds in essential life-skills and HIV/AIDS prevention education. Learn more
From the Huffington Post:
The statistics cannot be ignored. South Africa has the largest burden of HIV/AIDS in the world, with more than 5.7 million people – nearly 1 in 6 – living with HIV. The number of children between 0 and 14-years old living with HIV in South Africa …
Skillz Holiday program delivers HIV prevention education for employees’ children
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (June 24, 2010) — To keep children of Levi Strauss & Co.’s South African employees engaged and healthy during the extended World Cup school holiday, Grassroot Soccer is promoting HIV/AIDS prevention and outreach through the Skillz Holiday …
From The Body:
A global organization that reaches out to children in areas most affected by HIV is staging its most comprehensive project to date at the World Cup in South Africa.
Forty staff members as well as local volunteers from Grassroots Soccer (GRS) are at the World Cup, educating children …
From rwdmag.com.
Tinchy Stryder recently visited the Grassroots Soccer Camp, sponsored by (RED), in the Khayelitsha township of Cape Town, South Africa.
Below is a short webfilm featuring an interview with Tinchy, Ethan Zohn (the founder of Grassroots Soccer) and footage of the children in the camp, alongside the popular African …
From the BBC:
A Scottish healthcare specialist is using the World Cup to offer hope to more than 1,000 South African children affected by HIV and Aids.
Samuel Mayer has helped hundreds of the country’s poorest children to attend World Cup matches for free through the Grassroot Soccer project.
Mr Mayer, from …
There’s a story about GRS at USA Today:
During the World Cup, GRS will run programs to educate children about HIV while providing a safe place to play soccer and watch matches. Schools in South Africa are closed for six weeks during the tournament.
Because of GRS’ record, sustainable teaching methods …
Following the incredible success of the Castrol Skillz Holiday Programme in September, streetfootballworld network members Grassroot Soccer and WhizzKids United and Castrol are rolling the programme out nationwide through June and July.
More than 45 camps, which will use football to teach over 4,000 young people life skills and …
The Goal blog at the New York Times has coverage of Ethan at the showing of “Eine Andere Liga” during the second Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival in New York City.
I helped to introduce the film with Ethan Zohn (the winner of “Survivor: Africa” and the founder of GrassrootSoccer). …
Since I’m a passionate soccer fan, I tend to gravitate toward the soccer community in each country I visit. In fact, I always pack a pair of cleats just in case I hang out with the locals and get the coveted invite to play in a …
World Series of Football and Red Bull New York named Ethan Zohn, Survivor Winner and Grassroot Soccer co-founder, a 2010 New York Football Challenge Ambassador. As Ambassador, Zohn will focus his efforts on building a legacy of community service associated with the Tournament. Zohn will work with WSF and the …
