Archives for the ‘News’ Category

Grass roots tournament

By richard • Jul 25th, 2010 • Category: News, South Africa

While the world has been focused on the greatest sporting event there have been plenty of other amazing initiatives taking place. The 2010 Campaign has been fortunate enough to get on board with a local tournament taking place on the Cape Flats, in a township called Nyanga. A local photographer come football enthusiast Ayanda, (see [...]



Cape Town ready and waiting…

By richard • Jan 9th, 2010 • Category: News

I have recently returned from Cape Town and can say that the people are getting excited, their breaths are baited and they are beginning to drool! The magnificent stadium which was built from scratch was completed ahead of schedule, the one logistical challenge remains around the transport but they have some plans in place around [...]



The manic day of chaos….

By richard • Dec 15th, 2009 • Category: News

Wow what a manic Saturday it was, Ugandan team due to leave first thing Sunday morning! I had just delivered the last of our balls to Cameron and one of our overland team who left that morning! I was therefore left with no balls, footballs I might add! Mitre were due to deliver 500 balls [...]



Zim update… this is incredible

By richard • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: News, Zimbabwe

Burgundy and Mig’s headed off home for a couple of weeks to soak up some sun and spent time with the family, and of course to hand out some footballs to kids in need! Well well it didn’t take them long before the need was revealed, read the following text I received this morning…… Hey [...]



Overlanders

By richard • Dec 1st, 2009 • Category: News

I have recently become aware that there is a market of untapped resource in the overland community! Personal experience has told me that traveling for extended periods of time within the confined space of a vehicle traveling a 90 km/h can lead to only a handful of things! I was fortunate enough to spend a [...]



Word of mouth – are you going near any children in NEED???

By richard • Nov 26th, 2009 • Category: News

I guess all campaigners strive for a similar thing – to get to a point where their campaign reaches a point where is grows beyond their sphere of influence and starts reaching other circles and groups. Well we too are striving for this with the hope that if enough people know about it and buy [...]



Do you need a reason for being generous

By admin • Oct 6th, 2009 • Category: News

Do you? 2010 Campaign has been setup to bring folks together to give to those in need – to reach children who are surrounded by circumstances that most of us will never face. There is no better position to be in than to be able to give! I have been in the fortunate position to [...]