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Washington Post launches 'WORLDS UNITED', a special coverage of the DC Blast girls in South Africa 
"What happens when 11 Washington area high school girls, the picture of health and privilege, travel 8,000 miles to South Africa to teach soccer to girls their own age, all of whom know the downward drag of poverty and many of whom will be infected with AIDS or are living with someone who is?" + Read more
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The Team Has Arrived
The D.C. Blast arrived in Cape Town on Monday evening with a full day ahead of them on Tuesday including a briefing at the U.S. Embassy, a visit to one of Cape Town's most famous landmarks, Table Mountain, and a match against a South African women's soccer team. + More |
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DC Soccer Raises $20,000 for Goals for Girls 07
The DC Center for the Development and Promotion of Soccer (DC Soccer) raised $20,000 at a February 28 fundraiser for Goals for Girls. More than 100 people, including US Soccer elite and a member of DC local government, enjoyed the South Africa wine tasting fundraiser, which was accompanied by a silent and live auction. + more...
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Olympic Gold Medalist and FIFA World Cup winner Tiffany Roberts joins the Goals for Girls team!
Tiffany Roberts has enthusiastically joined the Goals for Girls team as
the program spokesperson and the head coach and trainer for the trip to
South Africa. Her incredible talents on and off the field will make the
soccer and life skills camp a huge success, and her international fame
will bring crucial attention to the important task of fighting the spread
of HIV/AIDS. The Goals for Girls team is honored to have such an amazing
role model help make this program a success! Read her bio here.
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U.S. Soccer Foundation Joins the Fight Against AIDS through the Game of Soccer
The U.S. Soccer Foundation's Passback Program is partnering with Goals for Girls to provide new and gently used soccer equipment to young women in South Africa. This June, Goals for Girls will send a team of U.S. teenage girl soccer players, the Washington Soccer Club's DC Blast, to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where they will distribute equipment donated by Passback and hold clinics for roughly 100 local South African girls. + more...
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Goals for Girls creates partnership with local organizations in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth
The Goals for Girls delegation will work closely with two other charitable organization currently operating in South Africa: Grassroot Soccer and the Ubuntu Education Fund. They will also work with US and South African government entities to ensure the program has a wide reach for young girls. Specifically, the US Embassy (Cape Town, South Africa) and the Port Elizabeth Department of Social Development. + more...
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Top-level women soccer players join Goals for Girls 2007
Goals for Girls is excited to announce the addition of two top level women soccer players to the team! Jessica Cates-Bristol and Alice Keeney have accepted invitations to be official Goals for Girls coaches for the June/July 2007 trip to South Africa. + more...
Other news:
Watch Lusaka Sunrise, a 7 minutes documentary that shows another organization's effort to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa through soccer.
