Supporting The Great Football Giveaway 

“Goooooooooooooooaaaal!” The famous cry is known worldwide to mean one thing: football.  Popular all over the world, football is played in over 200 countries by children of all ages.  Most of its popularity comes from the fact that the game can be played anywhere – virtually no equipment is needed, other than a ball.  The rest of its popularity comes from the love of the game. 

That’s the idea behind the Great Football Giveaway (GFG).  A non-profit organization based out of the UK, the aim of the Giveaway is to use the power of sport as a way to do good. Going straight into rural communities, the GFG team distributes brand new footballs to children.  Their first project distributed footballs to children in Malawi in 2006.  In 2007, two Agility offices got involved to help transport footballs to Angola and we haven’t looked back.  In 2008, Agility transported 3,500 footballs and netballs to Uganda for distribution to 200 schools.

In 2009, Agility supported the Great Football Giveaway (GFG) Rwanda.  Through schools, orphanages, Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, locally run youth community centers, the GFG Team Rwanda distributed 2,500 brand new footballs, netballs, pumps and other relevant sports equipment directly to the children.  The team also ran the ‘stop and swap’ program, where the team stopped and swapped homemade rag balls with brand new footballs.  In an effort to use sports to bring ex-child soldiers together with other children, the GFG team organized a football game between a team of former child soldiers and a team of local orphaned street children.  “To see these kids come together as a team was fantastic. A true testament of the power of sport to unite,” the organization said.

The Great Football Giveaway team is currently working on Tanzania 2010 with a target of collecting 5,000 brand new footballs.