#football

🌍 Global · Alive & Kicking

Alive & Kicking hand-stitches footballs, netballs and volleyballs in Kenya, Zambia and Ghana, turning ball-making into fair jobs and a platform for health education.

🇦🇺 Australia · Clontarf Foundation

Clontarf uses AFL and rugby league academies embedded in schools to keep young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men engaged in education and headed toward jobs.

🌍 Global · Common Goal (streetfootballworld)

A global network born from streetfootballworld pools football talent, money and know-how to fund grassroots organisations using the game to tackle poverty, conflict and inequality.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Fundación Colombianitos

Fundación Colombianitos uses football, play and life-skills education to steer children from Colombia's most violence-affected communities away from conflict, addiction and recruitment.

🌍 Global · Grassroot Soccer

Grassroot Soccer turns soccer practice into a curriculum for HIV prevention, mental health and reproductive health education for adolescents across the developing world.

🇦🇺 Australia · Korin Gamadji Institute

Named 'grow and emerge' by Wurundjeri Elders, Richmond Football Club's Korin Gamadji Institute uses sport and culture to build the next generation of Indigenous leaders.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Moving the Goalposts Kilifi (MTGK)

Moving the Goalposts trains girls across Kenya's coast as football players, coaches and referees, pairing the game with reproductive health education and leadership training.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Ubuntu Football

A six-year football-and-academics programme turns talented boys from Cape Town's townships into university graduates and professional players.

🇮🇳 India · Yuwa India

Yuwa fields girls' football teams and runs a free school in rural Jharkhand, using the game to keep girls in the classroom and out of child marriage.

🇦🇹 Austria · fairplay Initiative (VIDC)

Since the 1997 European Year Against Racism, fairplay has used football pitches across Austria as classrooms for fighting racism, sexism and discrimination in sport.