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Website: AliveandKickingSC.org

location: Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Inspiration froM: AliveAndKicking.org.uk

What we do: Alive & Kicking is an innovative charity that hand stitches leather balls in Africa to provide balls for children, create jobs for adults and promote health awareness through sport.

contact us: Alive&KickingSC email

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                                                About Us


Vision: Alive & Kicking's vision is of an Africa where every child can play with a real ball, where thousands of jobs are sustained in the production of balls, and where sport contributes to the eradication of deadly disease.


Approach: Alive & Kicking believes that by combining social entrepreneurship with sport's mass appeal, lasting economic and social development can be achieved in Africa.


Mission: Alive & Kicking strives to help children exercise their right to play, to create employment for communities in Africa and to help raise awareness of preventable disease. This will continue to be achieved through the African manufacture and distribution of sports balls and the provision of appropriate health awareness materials for young people.

 

The Ball


Alive & Kicking balls are proven to be twice as resistant to punctures as the best synthetic on the market, according to a study by an Ivy League University (Dartmouth College)


Alive & Kicking balls are hand stitched out of local leather. They are tougher than imported synthetic balls, last far longer on rough ground and therefore give children in Africa lasting fun. Every ball carries a message about HIV/AIDS and malaria which can be used by teachers and sports coaches to broach discussions with children on deadly disease.