World Cup 2010
Posts related to the work Grassroot Soccer is doing to utilize the 2010 World Cup to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and beyond.
GRS Features on National Public Radio
Grassroot Soccer’s Football For Hope Centre was featured in a National Public Radio (NPR) Broadcast on July 27, 2010. Click here to listen to the story, or read the full transcript from the broadcast below:
FIFA Hits Snags In Fulfilling World Cup Vow in Africa
by Anders Kelto
Some of the record $3 billion brought in by [...]
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 [...]
GRS Coaches Meet FIFA President at World Cup Game
Not only did five Grassroot Soccer (GRS) Coaches get a chance to see the Uruguay v Ghana quarterfinal match at Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium, but they also received a special invitation from FIFA President, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, to join him before the game. The Coaches received tickets to the game through the Sony Ticket Fund, [...]
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 [...]