Many thanks for taking the time to visit my Great Football Giveaway JustGiving page.
My promise to you; for every £10 you give I will personally hand-deliver a ball direct to a child living in some of the poorest parts of rural Tanzania.
What does the Great Football Giveaway do?
Put simply, we buy footballs with donations from you, our supporters, and give them direct to children living in poor rural areas of Africa. In the last few years our volunteers have hand delivered over 15,000 footballs and netballs direct to kids in some of the poorest rural areas of Malawi, Uganda, Angola, Zambia and Rwanda. Over time, with the support of football fans and players alike, we want to go to more countries across Africa and Asia suffering poverty, more refugee camps, and where appropriate more areas of civil conflict - in short wherever kids are denied the chance to kick a ball about and enjoy their childhood, we'll go.
What am I up to?
On October 26th of this year I, along with my best mate Karl and my newest best buddy Disco (from New York) will be travelling to Tanzania to deliver the first phase of a project which will see us deliver around 6,000 football (and netballs) across the country. For those of you that think this will be a stroll through the Serengeti, forget it!......rural Tanzania suffers some of the worst poverty in sub-Saharan Africa; they have one of the highest HIV rates in the world and anything we can do to put a smile on these kids faces has got to be worth the effort. So, as with previous projects we will be going well and truly off the tourist trail with a view to finding that poorer rural school with no sports facilities, that orphanage or community project doing everything it can to survive or that boy or girl by the side of the road or in the remote village just kicking a rag-ball around.
How can you help
2010 will be undoubtedly dominated by World Cup fever; however never has the beautiful game been so tarnished by the excesses of money, hype and celebrity. The Great Football Giveaway provides you with a fantastic opportunity to show what is really important about the beautiful game and how football can be used as a force for good.
My promise to you is that if you donate (i.e. buy a ball for) a tenner, I'll promise to personally deliver that ball straight into the hands (or feet) of some of the most disadvantaged children in the world. So it's pretty simple, if you love football for what it is and for what it can really mean, namely loads of fun and smiles, then join in and give a ball - Cheers!!
To see the difference a ball can make and information on what a typical project entails and how you become more directly involved , just visit the The GFG website
About the charity
The Great Football Giveaway (GFG) is a registered charity (UK reg. 1113148) that relies 100% on volunteers i.e. we don't have any paid staff or rented offices. Any funds donated go directly into buying balls, pumps, valves, transport costs and other costs directly associated with the projects. As soon as enough balls are collected to fill one shipping container, donations go towards more footballs for future projects.
About JustGiving
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
