Endeavors
Balls Without Borders formed in response to Iraq’s national victory in the 2007 Asian Cup. As demonstrated, soccer has the capacity to bring people together. For a full 24 hours that day, the only gunshots being fired were in celbration of thier victory. Since 2007 we have sent over 4,600 balls to kids in need at home and around the world. If it takes 22 kids to play a game of soccer, that means we have potentially provided a beneficial impact on the lives of more than 101,200 youth worldwide, so far. We reach kids that love the “Beautiful game” but have the disadvantages of being born into poverty, landlessness, conflict, and near hopelessness. Like the Doctors Without Borders who inspired our formation, ”We find out where conditions are the worst–the places where others aren’t going–and that’s where we want to be.”
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USAID Director of Disaster Relief in the East Africa region, Nick Cox, volunteered to distribute these balls without borders to kids growing up in the Mathare Slums, the 2nd largest Slum in all of Africa. There, Metro F.C. is working to forge friendships against inter-ethnic post-election strife. Mathare Slums are located on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Photo taken during World Cup Fever 2010 |