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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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Key Stage 3 Topics
All Alive & Kicking lesson plans are designed to encourage communication and activity based learning. The lessons are tailored so all students in the class - no matter what their ability is - can get enjoyment out of them. Through addressing core global issues at a young age, Alive & Kicking hopes to install a sense of emphathy but also more importantly, try and encourage students to get active and support their peers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Rights of the Child
The Alive & Kicking project in sub-Saharan Africa addresses one of the simplist needs - the right of children to play. Many children there do not even have access to basic sporting equipment such as a football. The lessons encourage the class to think about and understand children's rights and explore why all children do not have the right to play as well as broader rights. The lessons have been specifically tailored to the Citizenship curriculum.
Global Health Issues
All Alive & Kicking balls carry health messages. We also produce health posters featuring African sports starts endorsing important health messages. All young people around the world face threats to their health and children in sub-Saharan Africa are some of those most at risk. The 'Global Health Issues' lessons focus on the health threats facing young people and the role of effective preventive health messages. They introduce young people to sensitive health issues in an engaging and fun way and are designed to fit in with either the PSHE or Citizenship curriculum.
The role of Sport for Development
Sport can play a major role in many areas of development - health and poverty to name but a few. Alive & Kicking has designed a series of lessons that analyse sport's value both in the UK and abroad, at the individual and community level. The lessons, which fit into the Citizenship curriculum, encourage young people to look critically at the role sport can play in improving peoples' lives and how charities have been using it to good efffect both in the UK and in sub-Saharan Africa.