There seems great to me the idea of a football team to promote the sport between the young people.
I sent today to Daniel a box with four football balls. I hope to see very quickly in the sports news some of the children of Kiserian!

thanks alot aldo,for your donation of footballs ,may God bless you and your family for your generosity
thank

Daniel said:
we kiserian village take this opportunity to thank Aldo for donation of 4 football to kiserian football team we say thank and may GOD BLESS him and his family abundantly

Now, the team needs jerseys, so we are happy about anyone who has an idea of how/where to get some.

Hi all-

Just a quick update on this task -

I have been talking this week with Penina, the local representative of the Lesoworld Village here at Nabuur regarding whether or not it would be possible for her group to make the uniforms Daniel would like to provide the football team. She said that they could definitely do it and provided me with a list of prices - we'd just need to raise the funds.

Basically, there are 20 members of the football team. Penina recommended an extra uniform for the goal keeper. She said they have 3 grades of fabric that can be used and prices she quoted are for a jersey and short for each of the team members.

Options w/prices are:

a. Grade 1- kshs 17,900/= $221.48 USD

b. Grade 2-kshs 19,600/= $242.51 USD

c. Grade 3-kshs 39,200/= $485.03 USD

I sent the prices to Daniel to review today. This seems like it would be a very doable fundraiser that could help both villages. Lesoworld would get the money to pay for the order of uniforms and the Kiserian football team receives quality constructed uniforms from Lesoworld. Daniel and Penina both indicated they were not too far from each other so delivery should not be an issue.

What do think? Who's in for helping?

Jennifer

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Does the team here know about Alive & Kicking? http://www.aliveandkicking.org.uk/

This is a great concept. The A & K footballs are handstitched in Nairobi and Lusaka by a specially trained workforce composed of disabled people and others who would otherwise be without employment. Each football carries health education messages about HIV/AIDS and Malaria.

Alive and Kicking is a UK charity. They invite individuals, teams and organisations to buy the high quality footballs (netballs, rugby balls as well I believe) for £25. But if they buy the balls to donate to disadvantaged teams in Africa, they cost the donors only £12.50 each.

Shall I check this out?

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David Bale

I've started sending out one or two emails. Ths was the first:

Would Congleton Junior Team be willing to donate an Alive & Kicking football to a team in Kenya?

Dear Neal,
Please excuse me for writing to you out of the blue with this request.

These are my reasons:

1) I recently joined Nabuur, the well-known site for online international volunteers. This is their website: http://www.nabuur.com/
I read there about a school team in need of football equipment. It is in a place called Kiserian in Eastern province in Kenya. This is a link to the school:
http://www.nabuur.com/en/village/kiserian/villagebackground/background-s...

2) Alive & Kicking is a UK charity that provides work in Kenya for disabled people and others who find it hard to obtain employment there. Their workforce are trained to hand stitch high quality footballs. They must be good because one of their biggest customers is EUFA. They invite teams in the UK to buy a football for £12.50 and to donate the ball to a disadvantaged team in Africa.

3) I know about Alive & Kicking because recently the group I belong to in Cambridgeshire donated A & K footballs and netballs to teams in Lusaka in Zambia. The reason we did so is because Lusaka is the partner area for Cambridgeshire, as part of a WorldWide Connection Project that has randomly allocated to every place in the world’s most developed countries, a partner area from one of the world’s poorest countries. We have made an arrangement with Alive and Kicking in Zambia that we can donate the balls to specific teams of of own choice, provided the teams themselves arrange collection direct from the stitching factory. In this way we can establish an ongoing link between schools and sports teams in Cambridgeshire and their counterparts in Lusaka.

2370. Zambia - Lusaka province: Lusaka district (west of railway)
6498. England - Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire & South Cambridgeshire)

4) The reason I’ve written to you asking for help is because the WWCP partner area for Kiserian is Congleton, Macclesfield and Warrington.

1173. Kenya - Eastern Province: Machakos district (Kathiani parl. constituency area) & Rift Valley Province: Kajiado district
6501. England - Cheshire (Congleton & Macclesfield) & Warrington

5) If Congleton Junior Team were to buy an A & K football and then donate it to the Sajos Academy in Kiserian, I would arrange that photos of the team with their new football would be sent to you. If you wanted to exchange news with them, that would also be very welcome. It would give your talented young team (I’ve seen the league table!) a wider perspective of the role of sport in the world and give them a chance to know how satisfying it feels to make good things happen.
I do hope you will consider this request favourably. I will happily answer any question you might have.

Regards

David Bale

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David Bale