Skillz Curriculum
Posts related to Grassroot Soccer’s ‘Skillz’ Curriculum
GRS Wins Nike and Ashoka’s Changemakers Regional Competition
(Washington, DC – August 25, 2010) Nike and Ashoka’s Changemakers today announced the three global winners and three regional winners in the Changing Lives Through Football competition. The six winners were chosen among nearly 300 entries that proposed innovative solutions to use football (“soccer” in the United States) to strengthen community, accelerate development and drive [...]
GRS Port Elizabeth Features in Vanity Fair
The following is an article published 9 July, 2010 by Austin Merrill on VanityFair.com.
Perie Zabathempu has begun her weeks during the World Cup by reciting a Monday-morning story to groups of children in their early teens who live in the shantytowns that fringe Port Elizabeth, in South Africa. It’s a different group of kids each [...]
GRASSROOT SOCCER PARTNERS WITH LEVI STRAUSS & CO. TO COMBINE SOCCER AND HIV PREVENTION IN WORLD CUP CAMP
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 [...]
REACHING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DURING THE WORLD CUP
With the kickoff of the 2010 World Cup, GRS is launching an ambitious goal of reaching 1 million youth by the start of the World Cup in 2014. Our work over the coming month catalyzes these efforts.
In sites across South Africa, GRS will keep more than 5,000 youth safe and learning during the extended holiday [...]
Port Elizabeth Hosts Freedom Day VCT Tournament
On Freedom Day, while most South Africans were celebrating the Freedom of their country, in Port Elizabeth, Grassroot Soccer was celebrating another type of freedom: the freedom to know your HIV status!
On Tuesday, April 27, Freedom Day, GRS Port Elizabeth hosted a Voluntary Counseling and Testing(VCT) Soccer tournament; a day of fun, soccer, and the [...]