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Grassroot Soccer
198 Church Street
P.O. Box 712
Norwich, VT 05055
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Using the Power of Soccer in the Fight Against HIV and AIDS
Grassroot Soccer provides African youth with the knowledge, life skills, and support to live HIV-free. We continuously improve our innovative HIV prevention and life-skills curriculum, share our program and concept effectively, and utilize the popularity of soccer to increase our impact.
Grassroot Soccer has been named an Official Participating Charity of the ING New York Marathon, and we have a team of supporters running to raise money for Grassroot Soccer.
Please help our team reach their fundraising goal,
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“Grassroot Soccer's work is a refreshing and highly promising effort
that can help turn the tide against HIV. Soccer is like a universal
language...Grassroot Soccer thus reaches large numbers of young people
with HIV education, and bases its programs on the best available
evidence.”
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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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 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.
New Sponsors
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Monday, 22 June 2009 |
 Pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme has supported the recent launch of Football for an HIV Free Generation (F4) Namibia, which will catalyze the successful sports-based HIV prevention efforts of two local implementing partners under F4’s innovative, pan-African effort to leverage the power of soccer and the opportunity of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
“Thanks to the invaluable support from Merck,” says GRS Managing Director Kirk Friedrich, “we were able to initiate work with local partners in Namibia, a new country for F4, and establish our HIV prevention program to reach 6,000 youth by the end of 2010.”
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 |
By now, many of you in the Grassroot Soccer network know I was diagnosed in May with a rare form of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and have already begun treatment. The statistics say that, with chemotherapy, I've got an excellent chance of defeating this disease, and I'm confident that I'll beat it. Cancer is a serious and growing health threat to young adults, see the facts here http://i2y.com/about/stats.shtml , and I'm going to use this as an opportunity to help raise awareness.
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Monday, 25 May 2009 |
 Source: FIFA.com
As the continent celebrated Africa Day today (25 May 2009), another milestone was
achieved in ensuring that the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ leaves
a legacy in Africa, with the official ground-breaking ceremony for the
first of the 20 Football for Hope Centres, in Khayelitsha in Cape Town.
This project is part of '20 Centres for 2010', the Official Campaign of
the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, which aims to build 20 Football
for Hope community centres in South Africa, Mali, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda,
Namibia and other still-to-be-determined locations across Africa.
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