Grassroot Soccer - Football’s Fight Against Aids
One Girl’s Story of Courage - Courtesy of FIFA
Lungi has more to write about than most poets. By the age of nine, she had lost both of her parents to South Africa’s AIDS epidemic. With her sister, she was forced to become responsible for the household. Grassroots Soccer saw the pain that HIV caused in Africa and set about educating the kids, enabling them to develop the will to break out of the cycle of sickness and despair. Lungi says the programme has helped her feel much stronger and it has allowed her to deal with the pain and continue her life.