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Our sports report: Football isn’t just fun!

All over the world, organisations use football to help young people with problems. In some countries, football programmes keep bored kids off the streets and away from crime. In other countries, the programmes work with kids who have no homes or no parents, or kids who have HIV or AIDS.

Why football? Well, millions of people play football and billions of people watch it. You don’t need expensive equipment. You can play it in the street without a football pitch, proper goals, expensive football boots or a real ball. And football, like many other sports, teaches you skills which are useful in all areas of life: teamwork, fair play and respect for others.

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya is a very poor area where 200,000 people live. Most of the people that live here survive on very little money and many of them eat only once a day. There’s rubbish everywhere and little healthcare. Half of the people here have HIV or AIDS. In 2000 a football programme started for boys and girls. It aims to help them believe in themselves, and gives students health and life skills education. Students learn about HIV and how to protect themselves against it. They also do activities that help to improve life in the area.

A new life for Josephine

'I live with my grandmother and my sister. My parents both died two years ago. I started to go to football training to forget my problems. Now I play because I love the sport. Before I didn’t go to school; because I didn’t have money to pay. But the organisation has a free school and I get lunch there too. It’s like a new life for me.'

1. Football can help with social problems.

2. You can't play football without the right equipment.