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Date: 2nd September 2024
SFSA & Play Soccer Malawi update September 2024
Our Partnership with Play Soccer Malawi has been running for six years and has seen us support the use of football in one of the poorest African nation to help across of wider education projects.
In that time we have been on the ground in Lilongwe and Blantyre with our Ambassador Jimmy Bone helping the development of coaches. We also undertook a project ( thanks to Scottish Football Fans generous donations ) to pay for two fishing boats that were used by the local community that could sell the fish they caught to funding community football programmes. These programmes helped by using football to increase school attendance, to get kids education across a range of health issues as well as helping with fitness and wellbeing.
Another simple strand to our ongoing support has been in providing a supply of reusable football kit and football boots from schools and grassroots teams in Scotland that are sent to Malawi on containers that are organised by the fantastic charity The Banana box Trust who are based in Dundee. There is currently a shipment of kit being distributed in Malawi and we will show the pictures from our friends at Play Soccer Malawi as soon as we get them. In the meantime we will be heading for Dundee later this week to drop off 10 bags and boxes for kit that is going to be shipped in the coming months This will include kit from Cambusbarron Rovers, Gairdoch United, Wallace High School and GSR Central Academy.
If you know of any team who wish to donate reusable kit or boots or have any fundraising ideas please get in touch with our Co Founder Paul Goodwin on 07702 252519
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