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Alive & Kicking make cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV/AIDS and malaria.
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Support Alive & Kicking by buying a Tonic t-shirt (www.tonicgen.com). For every Luella 'Stage Tee' you buy Tonic will provide one Alive & Kicking football to a school child in Kenya. Click here for more...
Barack Obama inspecting an Alive Kicking Ball during a visit to Kenya
Alive & Kicking Winter 2008 Newsletter
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We make the balls that make a difference!
Alive & Kicking makes high quality durable footballs, netballs and volleyballs in Africa using African skills and African leather. Each ball carries a message about AIDS, malaria or TB. We employ over 150 Stitchers across three countries and have produced over 170,000 balls for children across Africa. Find out more:
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Latest News - Alive & Kicking wins Enterprise Award
Alive & Kicking is thrilled to announce that it has won the SCORE4Africa Enterprise Award for the most exciting and innovative football related business investment or project.
Score4Africa's inaugral awards ceremony, organised by AFFORD, was held at the House of Lords on Thursday 16th October 2008. Alive & Kicking made special balls for every guest at the event, who included Didier Drogba, Carlton Cole and Baroness Amos.
The award will be placed in the Mombasa Road Workshop in Nairobi, where it will sit amongst the stitchers and staff of our original operation. (Above: Didier Drogba with an Alive & Kicking ball. Right: Alive & Kicking Chairman James Flecker accepting the Enterprise Award.Pictures by Aubrey Fagon). More news....
Alive & Kicking is a proud partner of Ambition Events. Ambition Events provides mentally and physically challenging ultra marathons and races around the world. It invites successful executives ready to push themselves further to combine management and leadership conferences with challenging sporting events. Ambition Events believes in encouraging skills development and education through sport in disadvantaged areas of the world, and as part of this, a percentage of their sales from their Corporate Tri Challenge will be donated to Alive & Kicking. Click here to find out more.