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Premier League Goes (RED) for AIDS Campaign

The Premier League has gone (RED) this weekend to help raise funds for the “Lace Up. Save Lives” AIDS charity campaign.
A specially-designed Nike ball is being used in all matches from Saturday to Monday. Meanwhile, players Cesc Fabregas, Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Fernando Torres and other stars will also wear Nike [...]

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No Kidding! Comedian Eddie Izzard Completes Charity Run Around United Kingdom

Is anybody up for a nice brisk run around the United Kingdom? The entire U.K.? Officials at U.K.-based charity Sport Relief initially thought such an idea was crazy, but comedian Eddie Izzard wasn’t joking. I can almost hear the more serious tone of Izzard affirming his plan, “I said 1100 miles. I [...]

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Street Games Festival Exposing Kids to Sports

Olympic athletes Beth Tweddle and Diane Modahl recently took time to meet with children to encourage them to get involved in different sports. The event was part the sixth annual North West Street Games Festival in the U.K. The festival, organized by Sport4Life, aims to bring sports to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. [...]

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Charity Soccer Match in Nepal Proves Soccer Violence is Worldwide Issue

Charity Soccer Match in Nepal (4:38)
This video, which originally aired as part of the Goalisimo program, chronicles a charity soccer tournament in Cavre Nepal’s poor rural district. Unfortunately, as CozmicTV suggests, “It just goes to prove that Football violence is a world wide problem, although you don’t normally get you local football hooligan throwing [...]

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The U.K.’s Great Football Giveaway Delivers 2,250 Soccer Balls to Zambia

The Great Football Giveaway in Zambia (3:26)
The Great Football Giveaway visited Zambia last October and November to deliver 2250 footballs (well, soccer balls to some) to schools and community centers across the country.
The U.K.based organization explains its mission this way, “No kid should be denied the chance to kick a ball about. [...]

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In South Africa, “Street Soccer” is Being Used to Reach Kids That Live on the Streets

From Us With Love – Street Soccer (4:27)
From Us With Love is working with the Western Cape Street Soccer League in South Africa to regain trust and change a street person’s life through sport. The league uses soccer as a means of involving children and youth that live, work and sleep on the [...]

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Arsenal’s Silvestre Bringing Charity Soccer Match to U.S. to Benefit Schools for Hope

Silvestre’s All Stars for Hope (3:33)
The New York Times’ Jack Bell wrote under the header, “European Stars Coming to the U.S. for Charity Game.”
The All Stars for Hope charity match will be held June 14 in New York. The event will benefit Schools for Hope, which was started by Arsenal F Mikael Silvestre.
Silvestre “started [...]

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Peres Centre for Peace Hosts Summit to Discuss the Power of Sport

Laureus Part of Summit at Peres Centre for Peace (2:37)
Laureus World Sports Academy members Edwin Moses and Tanni Grey-Thompson joined a group of influential sports personalities including FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Real Madrid President Ramón Calderón and International Olympic Coordinating Committee member Alex Gilardy to discuss the power of sport at a summit at the [...]

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The Great Ethiopian Run Has Record Turnout for 2008 Race to Benefiit Children

The Great Ethiopian Run (1:54)
A record number 32,000 people participated in the Great Ethiopian Run, Africas’ biggest 10k road race, on December 4. UNICEF and the Great Ethiopian Run have been partners for the past three years, committed to fighting HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.
The race continued its tradition of fundraising for orphans and vulnerable [...]

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2008 Match Against Poverty the First in a Series of Eight Events Promoting UNDP’s MDGs

UNDP Match Against Poverty (3:26)
The United Nations Development Program held its sixth annual Match Against Poverty charity soccer match in Morocco on Monday.
The primary objective of the event was to increase public awareness in the fight against poverty and to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to halve world poverty by 2015. [...]

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Serena Williams Helps Establish The Serena Williams Secondary School in Kenya

Serena Williams will be in Kenya tomorrow to help open The Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni. Williams helped build the school through a partnership between the Build African Schools initiative and Hewlett Packard.
Build African Schools Founder Patrick O’Sullivan said that the organizatino’s objective is “to build primary and secondary schools in marginalized areas [...]

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Peres Center Using Sport to Foster Peace Between Israeli and Palestinian Youth

Peres Center Sport Department (6:31)
Tel Aviv-based Peres Center for Peace’s Sport Department kicked-off the 2008-09 cycle of the “Twinned Peace Sport Schools” program, which is implemented in over 30 disadvantaged Palestinian and Israeli communities.
The project’s objective is to encourage reconciliation between young Palestinian and Israeli boys and girls from disadvantaged and peripheral communities, by providing [...]

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