Grassroot Soccer
198 Church Street
P.O. Box 712
Norwich, VT 05055
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/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.”
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.
Methembe's Story
Zimbabwean GRS co-Founder Methembe Ndlovu shares his story
A number of South African sports stars, including Kaizer Chiefs
captain Jimmy Tau, attended events in Port Elizabeth and Kimberly this
weekend to acknowledge World Aids Day on December 1.
The
sportsmen helped raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and motivated the people
who gathered at the two events to get tested for HIV. They did this on
behalf of a Cape Town-based HIV educational NGO, Grassroots Soccer, who
held tournaments at the different venues.
Today, World AIDS Day 2008, marks the official launch of the Football for an HIV-free
Generation (F4) Initiative. Driven by an alliance between GRS, UNAIDS, Coxswain Social
Investment Plus, loveLife, and the African Broadcast Media Partnership
Against HIV/AIDSThe initiative taps into excitement around the
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup by using soccer as the entry point for an
evidence-based strategy that draws on best practice for HIV prevention,
youth communication, and sport for development.
In a bid to encourage young people to know their HIV status, the
second annual Kick ‘n Test soccer tournament will be held at Port
Elizabeth‘s Zwide Stadium on Saturday. Eight Zwide and Kwazakhele high schools will each field two teams
competing for the trophy, take part in educational activities and get
tested for HIV/Aids to earn points.
Organiser Kellan Florio, of Grassroot Soccer, said the event aimed
“to use the power of football as a tool to bring the youth together,
increase awareness about HIV testing and treatment services and empower
them to know their status by promoting positive peer pressure.”
Grassroot Soccer has joined 
A number of South African sports stars, including Kaizer Chiefs
captain Jimmy Tau, attended events in Port Elizabeth and Kimberly this
weekend to acknowledge World Aids Day on December 1.
In a bid to encourage young people to know their HIV status, the
second annual Kick ‘n Test soccer tournament will be held at Port
Elizabeth‘s Zwide Stadium on Saturday. Eight Zwide and Kwazakhele high schools will each field two teams
competing for the trophy, take part in educational activities and get
tested for HIV/Aids to earn points.