The Great Football Giveaway Blog

We’re still looking for volunteers to help us organise  small ‘micro-project’ teams to help with distribution in rural areas of Tanzania. If anyone knows anyone that might want to get involved then do get in touch via info @ thegreatfootballgiveaway.org.uk

Also, if anyone knows of any particular projects that we should be looking to support out in Tanzania, then do get in touch.

Thanks

Just had a lovely chat this morning with Gaby Roslin & Paul Ross about The Great Football Giveaway, on BBC London radio.

To hear the interview, click here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ge3JWpOAEU

Paul

According to the newspapers the England football team were shown two films on their flight out to South Africa, one of which was our film about The Great Football Giveaway.

Whether this will serve as any form of inspiration is yet to be seen, but all in all this is great news.

If you haven’t seen it yet, or would like a copy on DVD to show to friends / family etc, then do send us an email to info@thegreatfootballgiveaway.org.uk and we’ll stick a copy in the post to you.

We’ve also had great feedback from the various countries where the film has aired, including Brazil (for me the spiritual home of football) so all in all quite exciting.

None of this means anything however, if we don’t keep getting your personal support, so what we do can keep doing what we do in Africa long after the World Cup has been and gone.

Paul

The World Cup in South Africa is just weeks away. And we’ve had an idea. To get you into the spirit, we’ve got lots of copies of our new film about The Great Football Giveaway that we’d love to send you. And we’d love you to invite a few friends around to watch it with you. Just send us your address and we’ll pop a DVD in the post to you (this won’t cost the charity a penny as all costs have kindly been donated).
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Just had a report back from one of the projects we support out in northern Rwanda (that uses football to try and get street children back into education). The girls team has just come top of the regional division! Here they are below with one of the balls we gave them and a set of bibs…

Massive thank you to Cathy at Poverty Reduction Rwanda for all the incredible work you keep doing out there.

Gashingiro girls football team, Northern Rwanda

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This is a really exciting development for The Great Football Giveaway in 2010/11. We’ve had this idea to open up The GFG to more groups of volunteers putting together their own ‘micro-project’ teams in Tanzania, and people are jumping at the chance to get involved. Excellent news. Read Full Post

Photos from the Congo:

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Apologies for those of you who received a somewhat out of date blogpost yesterday Read Full Post

Tweets from African kids with their brand new footballs, coming soon…

Today was yet another extraordinary day. Ever since I knew we would be staying at a town in northern Rwanda that borders the Congo (DRC) I have felt a compelling urge to take our project across the border.

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