14th June, 2010
AMREF brings the World Cup to the people.
During this summer’s World Cup in South Africa, AMREF will be partnering the ‘Africa Goal’ project to take the live action all across the East and the South of the continent.
'Africa Goal' is a project which will be screening the World Cup live on large screens in communities in remote areas that otherwise would not have access to the games. At the screenings the audiences will be taught key messages about HIV/AIDS. Africa Goal is partnering local health organisations throughout its tour and AMREF is delighted to support them in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
The project kicked off on Friday 11th June with a screening of the opening ceremony and the first matches in Dagoretti, Nairobi. Before the game children from the AMREF Dagoretti Child In Need Project performed plays, poetry and skits around the theme of HIV/AIDS and held a question and answer session for the audience based on the day's performances.
The team has now continued to Tanzania and will be proceeding through Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Swaziland before crossing over into South Africa on July 10th with a screening in the KwaZulu-Natal region where AMREF is running the Orphans and Vulnerable Children project.