Africa Goal Project collaborates with Watu Kwa Watu since its beginning. One of the Watu Kwa Watu Trustees is a key organizers of Africa Goal.
Starkid School and Rescue Centre soccer team has received in October 2014 new jerseys from Africa Goal 2014 Project via Watu Kwa Watu
Since 2006, every four years Africa Goal harnesses the popularity and excitement around football by screening live World Cup matches and using this platform to support local partners to provide access to life saving HIV information and services amongst people most at risk of HIV infection across Africa in a new and innovative way. During the one month FIFA World Cup 2014 tournament, The Africa Goal team has been driving 8000km from Kenya to Swaziland – through Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique – bringing the live World Cup matches, on a big screen, to thousands of people who may otherwise not have the chance to watch the matches.
With only 5% of the world’s population, Eastern and Southern Africa is home to half the world’s population living with HIV and accounts for 48% of the world’s new HIV infections amongst adults and half of all AIDS related deaths. Focusing on areas with the highest HIV prevalence in East and Southern Africa, including border towns, truck stops, fishing villages and rural settlements, Africa Goal events naturally draw huge crowds of most at risk groups which have proven the most challenging to reach through conventional health promotion strategies -including young people and men. During the one month 2010 Africa Goal campaign, over 20,000 people were reached directly with HIV information and services. In 2014, Africa Goal aims to reach even more!
Please see www.africagoal.com for more information.