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Grassroot Soccer
2456 Christian St. Suite 102
White River Jct, VT 05001
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Using the Power of Soccer in the Fight Against AIDS
Grassroot Soccer provides African youth with the knowledge, life skills, and support to live HIV-free.
We continuously improve our innovative HIV/AIDS life-skills curriculum, share our program and concept effectively, and utilize the popularity of soccer to increase our impact.
“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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Interactive Map of GRS Programs
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Red = Grassroot Soccer Program
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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 would also like to thank DaimlerChrysler for their generous support of our programs in South Africa.
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.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
 In collaboration with Baylor Children's Foundation Malawi, the Clinton Foundation, and the Malawian Ministry of Health, GRS is embarking on an initiative to hold four community-wide Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) soccer tournaments in Malawi between October 2008 and February 2009. The initiative is made possible with support from the Abbott Fund.
The Republic of Malawi has a population of 11.3 million and an estimated HIV prevalence of 14%. Of the 940,000 people living with HIV, approximately 83,000 are children.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
"What if you could somehow harness people's love of sport to do something good, like teaching kids about health?" asks Faith Salie, host of Public Radio International's program Fair Game. Salie recently interviewed GRS Founder Dr. Tommy Clark to learn how GRS does exactly that. PRI and its affiliates broadcast to 29 million listeners each week. In the interview, Dr. Clark tells the story of how GRS began, how the curriculum works, and what is next for GRS.
Click Here to Listen to the Interview
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
By Haider Rizvi
Courtesy of AEGIS
Last Tuesday at the two-day UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, the executive director of UNAIDS said the world is finally starting to see "real results" in the fight against the disease but that there is still "a long way to go."
"Every day, almost 7,000 people are needlessly affected because they do not have access to proven interventions to prevent transmission," Dr. Peter Piot said. "If the international community wants to get anywhere near universal access to HIV prevention, the world needs to significantly increase investment."
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