Grassroot Soccer
2456 Christian St. Suite 102
White River Jct, VT 05001
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Using the Power of Soccer in the Fight Against AIDS
Grassroot Soccer provides African youth with the knowledge, life skills, and support to live HIV-free.
We continuously improve our innovative HIV/AIDS life-skills curriculum, share our program and concept effectively, and utilize the popularity of soccer to increase our impact.
Games That Teach.
Learn more about our unique curriculum and why using the power of soccer to explain the risks of HIV and AIDS to kids really works.
Teachers To Admire.
Meet some of the amazing coaches that are helping us help kids in Africa, like Zimbabwe's own star, Khupa.
A World Without HIV.
Take a look at our work in Sub-Saharan Africa, where we're teaching kids to be smart about HIV and AIDS.
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Interactive Map of GRS Programs
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Red = Grassroot Soccer Program
Yellow = Partner Program
Grassroot Soccer would like to thank The De Beers Fund for their continued support of our programs in South Africa and their dedication to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Grassroot Soccer would also like to thank DaimlerChrysler for their generous support of our programs in South Africa.
Grassroot Soccer has joined FIFA and StreetFootballWorld in the Football for Hope Movement. This strategic alliance uses soccer/football as a vehicle to achieve the UN Millenuim Development Goals.
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Join Ethan Zohn's Dribble and win a trip to Africa! Click Here. |
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
Grassroot Soccer’s Lose The Shoes Campaign continues to gain momentum, as new schools around North America host fundraising/ awareness events. In the past year, 43 tournaments and similar events have been run on college and high school campuses from Pensacola to San Francisco to Manhattan, Vancouver, and Hong Kong. Over 3,000 students have played in the events over the last year, and over $50,000 has been raised for Grassroot Soccer’s HIV prevention program.
The tournaments are not only fun for players and beneficial to GRS, but also rewarding for the determined Campus Organizers around the country. “From conception to completion it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my college career,” said Dan Anadio, Campus Organizer at SUNY Cortland. "The Lose the Shoes How-to Guide is going to be passed down through the ranks of our soccer teams leaders for years to come.”
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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New York Times, 4/22/08, Sports D7
By Jack Bell
 Ethan Zohn won "Survivor: Africa" and $1 million in 2002. He was "the soccer guy" on the CBS show. But unlike so many of today's pseudostars of reality television, Zohn put his relative celebrity to a laudable use: he co-founded
Grassroot Soccer, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to educating
African children about AIDS.
"I played professionally in Zimbabwe and saw so many of my friends get sick and
die," Zohn , 34, said in a telephone interview last week before departing for
China, where he is taking part in a walk on the Great Wall with the Australian
pop star Olivia Newton-John to support breast cancer research.
"After I won 'Survivor,' I found myself in a unique position," he said. "All of
a sudden people wanted to talk with me and be in the same room. I saw a unique
opportunity, a perfect platform to get a message across for something I'm
passionate about."
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