Grassroots Soccer

Grassroot Soccer UNITED is a year-long initiative to get kids around the world to join the Grassroot Soccer team and get involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. By summer 2009, the ten Grassroot Soccer UNITED players who have raised the most money for the effort earn a trip to South Africa to play at the FIFA Football for Hope Center alongside their teammates African kids whose lives theyve helped. In all, Grassroot Soccer UNITED hopes to raise $1 million for the cause.

Sponsors and partners of Grassroot Soccer UNITED and the Dribble 2008 so far include PUMA®, POWERade®, PUGG®, Clif® Bar and Clif Kid, Morgans Hotel Group, General Motors® and Dasani®. Apart from other areas of support, each has pledged in-kind contributions of products and resources to support Grassroot Soccer, encourage public participation and further the cause.

Just six years old, Grassroot Soccer using a highly specialized curriculum that combines rigorously tested methods with kids love for the sport of soccer and its local heroes has equipped over 240,000 African children with the skills and knowledge they need to live healthy, long lives. Partners like FIFA, MercyCorps, PUMA and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have not only supported the curriculum, but greatly expanded its influence by helping implement it in a dozen countries across the continent.

The organization aims to impact the lives of more than 1 million with its curriculum by 2010. More information is available at www.grassrootsoccer.org
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• PUMA
• Grassroots
• Soccer
• Ethan
• Zohn
• HIV
• AIDS
• Youth
• Dribble
• Africa
• Survivor