Donate a Soccer Ball

&
SPREAD THE SMILE

TRΛVELBOECKER ΛDVENTURES will

match your donation
when travelling on one of our safaris!

In keeping with our ongoing commitment to the ethics of responsible tourism,

TRΛVELBOECKER ΛDVENTURES supports a number of initiatives which we invite you to participate in, including our own SPREAD THE SMILE.

We are proud of our SPREAD THE SMILE project that we run in conjunction with Alive & Kicking - Africa's only not-for-profit ball manufacturer that has created more than 1000 jobs for disabled adults, donating sports balls and delivering health education in schools and orphanages across sub-Saharan Africa.

If you donate to this deserving cause when travelling on one of our safaris, TRAVELBOECKER ADVENTURES will match your donation and ensure that locally made soccer balls - including "sound balls" for visually impaired kids - are given to African children in need. Each donation makes an enormous impact, giving the children something to smile about - literally "spreading the smile"!

During your East African Safari you could personally hand over a couple of locally made soccer balls and perhaps even enjoy an impromptu game with some local children. Now that will make anyone smile!

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TESTIMONIAL:

“Giving out the balls was a highlight of the trip. Children would just materialize out of the forest and hills, once we pulled up.

Big soccer games just started out of the blue.

We replaced one village ‘ball’ — a grocery bag filled with other grocery bags. One of the best moments!” K.R.

A seed planted...

When East African ex-pat, Stephen Allison floated the brilliant idea to donate soccer balls to children in Africa, we immediately jumped on it. And so the SPREAD THE SMILE project was born.

“The one thing that always makes African children smile is a good game of what we call soccer and they call football” says Stephen, co-founder of SPREAD THE SMILE.

“Generally, Africa is not in great shape these days. We hear all the time about floods, droughts and disease up and down the continent. That being said, the children of Africa always seem to have the capacity to smile – even in times of adversity.”

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To date our clients and TRAVELBOECKER ADVENTURES have donated more than 70 soccer balls to the poorest areas in Africa. We’ve provided sports-based health education for young African people and delivered a ‘sound ball’ to a group of visually impaired children. Our goal is to let every child in Africa have their own soccer ball and to SPREAD THE SMILE!

You can still donate a soccer ball even if you are travelling elsewhere in the world. Just click on A&K and your ball will be delivered to a deserving group of children in Africa.

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