NEWS FROM NEPAL

"Thanks so much for the kit, it went down a storm, to see the excited faces was fantastic. It's a brilliant job that you do and worth every ounce of effort. Football is such an international sport and the joy of receiving such fantastic kit is beyond the dreams of many”

 Zoe Penny

9^th Wimbledon Explorer Scouts

KITAID REACHES THE KIDS ALIVE PROJECT, ETHIOPIA

On 14th August, 9 volunteers, 7 from Northern Ireland and 2 from London, set off for Bekoji in Ethiopia, 9 hours east of Addis Ababa to visit the Kids Alive school in the town.


Many sports were played including rounders, football and ultimate frisbee. A game which was definitely new to Ethiopia was one which came to be known as 'Extreme Ball'. This involved a large exercise ball, very few rules and around 20 children in each team!


On the final day, the children took part in a sports day finale which was a great success. After they had all eaten lunch they were presented with gifts from the Kids Alive team. The gifts were schoolbags full of goodies like pens, pencils, juice, biscuits and even a wind-up torch each! Each child also received a t-shirt or football top donated by KitAid which many of them were incredibly excited about! There were even enough kits to donate a set to the headmaster of the school to use as an official team kit.

Chris handing over kit to the Head Teacher

NEWS JUST IN FROM UGANDA

Lovely photos from Gulu, Uganda sent in from our Regional Coordinator, Ben Van Nes

LORDSWOOD FC GET BEHIND THE KITAID APPEAL

Our thanks to Mike Green and the team at Lordswood FC, Kent for supporting KitAid this weekend when they played in the FA Vase against Three Bridges.  The club donated bags and bags of kit, which was presented during half-time by the Chairman, Ron Constantine.  All the kit will be sorted and packed at our next 'boxing up' session.

Sally Howe (KitAid trustee), with the referee and Mike Green (Commercial Manager, Lordswood Green FC).






Ron Constantine, Club Chairman and the Under 12s presenting the kit to KitAid

789 BOXES OF KIT SENT SO FAR THIS YEAR

Thanks to everyone for your help with boxing up today.

It was good to see Tania Boltonand it is always nice to see our Regional Co-ordinators attending as they mostly have to travel long distances. Good also to see John Maxwell who covers Swindon/Birmingham and Tim who covers Bishops Stortford.

Well the fantastic news is that we have broken all previous records as after today’s session we have now sent out 789 boxes in 2010, compared to last year’s record of 750. This works out to 27,615 items of kit and we still have 3 months of the year to go. Let’s see if we can reach 1,000!

112 boxes were sent out today, destined for Burkina Faso, Burundi, The Gambia, South Africa, Ghana and Eastern Europe. Not bad for 2.5 hours work so well done and thank to everyone.


The KitAid ball keeps rolling!