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because I am part of a team that is trying to build a generation free from HIV.

Yamkela Nqweniso, SKILLZ Street graduate, Khayelitsha

I’ve changed a lot from my time with Grassroot Soccer. Now I know where I’m from, where I’m headed, and where I want to be in the future. It’s built so much confidence in me,

EDUCATE. INSPIRE.

MOBILISE.

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CONTENTS.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

PROGRAMMES

RESULTS

SITES

HIGHLIGHTS

RESEARCH

IN THE NEWS

SUPPORTERS

PARTNERS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FINANCIALS

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and role models. Grassroot Soccer has proven

adults to do this for at risk adolescents in their own communities. They improve uptake of local services and increase protective factors already at play in each community.

better and better work with greater resources, and none of this would be possible without the generous support of funders, partners and individuals. Grassroot Soccer is thriving and growing thanks to you all.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

Grassroot Soccer was formed as an international HIV prevention organisation in 2002 and has reached over 1,000,000 youth since inception. We began working in South Africa in 2006, reaching over 200,000 young people in rural and urban areas in all nine provinces in the last decade.

addition to HIV prevention, we provide access to a continuum of HIV services, including diagnosis, treatment and support, that is widely absent for adolescents in this country. Furthermore, we tackle issues of gender-based violence, youth

unemployment and substance abuse - structural drivers of the HIV epidemic – as we seek to overcome the twin burden of poverty and inequality.

We tackled these multiple and interrelated issues with remarkable success in 2014. We reached over 20,000 youth with evidence-based programming, tested 7,132 individuals who were referred for support and treatment when necessary, and empowered over 2,400 adolescent girls (eight times at risk of contracting HIV as males of the same age) with female-only interventions endorsed by the United Nations.

to engage in sport and access health services, and through this we supported two female football clubs in South Africa to compete in the country’s highest league, SASOL. We did all of this, and made a

77% of Coaches moved onto further employment, education or training at the end of 2014; all the more remarkable with youth unemployment at over 50% in South Africa. Each participant in our programmes

Counselling, Testing and treatment, as well as Sexual and Reproductive Heath and violence support services. And our research shows that this makes an impact.

Successful adolescent health interventions empower young people with non-judgmental information, provide a hopeful future orientation and develop a supportive network of caring adults

There is no such

thing as a single-

issue struggle

because we do

not live single issue

lives.-Audre Lorde

JAMES DONALD, Managing Director, South Africa


PROGRAMMES.

SKILLZ Core (for 11-14 year olds) uses soccer-based activities and discussions to develop positive life skills that help boys and girls adopt healthy behaviours and gain a comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS.

SKILLZ Street (for 11-14 year old girls) combines soccer with sexual and reproductive health knowledge, life skills, HIV Counselling and Testing, and access to community services.

Generation SKILLZ (for 15-18 year olds) uses soccer-based activities and important conversations to address the key drivers of HIV: multiple partners, age-disparate relationships and gender-based violence.

HCT Soccer Tournaments bring adolescents and community members together for soccer matches combined with access to free HIV Counselling and Testing, and a range of other health services.

Bridging the Gap uses the power of soccer to address stigma and increase uptake of youth-friendly HIV services by ensuring access to a continuum of care for adolescents, including home visits, phone calls with guardians, and ongoing health services support.

SEXUALITY EDUCATION AND GENDER

HIV TESTING, TREATMENT AND CARE

SKILLZ Banyana soccer league (for 10-14 year old girls) integrates HIV education, life skills programming and health services, while strengthening social support networks through relatable female role models.

Champions League (for 15-25 year old young men) is a soccer league that incorporates life skills, drug testing, and incentives to develop positive behaviours fundamental to employment, health and violence-free relationships.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYABILITY

Coach Development (for 18-24 year olds) is an intensive two-year development programme for SKILLZ Coaches, who receive career guidance support and training on facilitation, employability, leadership, finances, entrepreneurship, HIV and addressing harmful gender norms.

PHYSICAL FITNESS AND HEALTH


RESULTS.

77%

333PARTICIPANTS REFERRED FOR SUPPORT SERVICES, INCLUDING HIV TREATMENT AND VMMC*

OF EXITING COACHES ENGAGED IN EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, TRAINING OR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

YOUTH GRADUATED

YOUTH TESTED

GIRLS ENGAGED IN FEMALE-ONLY PROGRAMMING

17,891

7,132

2,410

REDUCTION IN HIV STIGMA

39%*VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION

As a part of this team, I would say I’ve grown in many ways. I’m improving my confidence and self-esteem and I able to express my feelings because we all share

the same interests and hope to achieve the same goals.

Asekwa, RV United Player, Khayelitsha

*VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION


SITE SKILLZ COACHES SCHOOLSGRADUATES YOUTH TESTED

TOTAL:

ALEXANDRA 3,112 367 28 8

1052807,132

KIMBERLEY* 615218599

PORT ELIZABETH* 217--245ORANGE FARM 32214673,369

PARTNERSHIPS --1211,1911,536

17,891

KHAYELITSHA 28 198735,711SOWETO 36504,0163,319

SITES.

* Q1 ONLY

SITES.

Michael started as an intern for us through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). He performed very well, and we were all impressed such that he was given a longer term contract. Michael is currently spearheading a massive youth outreach programme throughout the Western Cape. He has shown diligence, a positive attitude and a willingness to learn. We are very happy with Michael’s performance and we know his part

Supervisor at the Department of Social Development speaking about DSD Programme Coordinator Michael, a former Coach Development graduate

success can be attributed to the foundation laid for him at Grassroot Soccer.


YOUNG COMMUNITY LEADERS IN MEANINGFUL WORKCoach Development – Celebrating Grassroot Soccer’s 2-year development programme for peer educators.

Arguably, the most prominent socio-economic challenge in South Africa today is high unemployment among youth. The overall unemployment rate was 25.4% in Quarter 3 of 2014, and the unemployment rate for young people ages 15-24 was 51.3% during the same period (Statistics South Africa, 2014).

To address this, Grassroot Soccer with support from USAID and Barclays, initiated the Coach Development programme in 2013,

98%

77%

60% 91%GRADUATE WITH A BANK ACCOUNT (PREVIOUSLY 82%)

SAVE MONEY ON A MONTHLY BASIS (PREVIOUSLY 33%)

KNOW OF POSSIBLEWORK OR STUDY OPPORTUNITIES (PREVIOUSLY 78%)

TWO-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF GRS COACHES

Apart from rigourous routine M&E, Grassroot Soccer conducted a longitudinal evaluation of the Coach Development programme starting in 2013, and ending in 2014. A cohort of 131 peer educators completed a quantitative survey at baseline, midline and endline

knowledge and stigma, sexual risk behaviour, substance abuse and equitable gender norms.

HIGHLIGHTS.

community leaders and gain better access to the labour market. During their two-year tenure as peer educators, Coaches go through a tailored programme gaining access to career guidance

Grassroot Soccer Coaches graduated from the programme.

OF COACHES IN MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT POST-GRS

53% 19% 5% 23%

EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION/TRAINING

ENTREPRENEURSHIP NOT IN EET*

One of the programme's main outcome measures of success is whether graduating Coaches are able to access opportunities post-engagement with GRS.

*Education, Employment & Training

We define RESEARCH as the systematic investigation into programme delivery and impact. Our aims in conducting research are to gain a deeper understanding of the complex issues we seek to address, inform our organisational development, establish credibility for our efforts, and contribute more broadly to existing evidence on sport-based HIV prevention and Sport for Development initiatives.

GOAL TRIALA 24-month cluster-randomised trial* assessing the impact of Grassroot Soccer’s Generation SKILLZ programme on HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviours of South African secondary school learners in 46 schools in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Total 3,321 surveys collected at endline, 74% of baseline.

* GOAL Trial is the first ever Randomised Control Trial (RCT) of a sport-based HIV prevention intervention, conducted with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute.

SKILLZ UPA study assessing the effectiveness of Grassroot Soccer’s SKILLZ Up Coach Development programme to equip young people with skills to be more effective leaders and change agents, empowering them to pursue future employment or education. Completed at the end of 2014, Coaches demonstrated significant improvement in employability skills, financial literacy, HIV knowledge and gender equitable norms. Parallel to this is an external qualitative evaluation that has shown positive results to date.

SKILLZ STREETConducted a United Nations Trust Fund (UNTF) Baseline Assessment, including Grassroot Soccer devising and pioneering a Perceived Soccer Benefits (PSB) Scale to measure the results of using soccer to promote health and physical activity amongst adolescent girls.

RESEARCH.


This week, HIV/AIDS has undoubtedly received more media

attention than it ordinarily would have. But for the men and women

working at Grassroot Soccer, World Aids Day is not much different

to any other: it is simply one of the 365 they spend per year, fighting

the disease through a language most of us speak – sport.Marelise van der Merwe, Daily Maverick, 5 December 2014

IN THE NEWS.


SUPPORTERS. Our warmest thanks to thousands of individual donors who support us from around the world.

HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERSSouth African National Tuberculosis Association

TB/HIV Care Association

Thuthuzela Care Centres

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONSLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Sports Science Institute of South Africa

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Cape Town

University of the Western Cape

Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute

IMPLEMENTING PARTNERSChildren’s Radio Foundation

Rock Girl

Sonke Gender Justice

Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication

GOVERNMENT/OTHERALTREK Sports Complex

City of Cape Town

City of Johannesburg

Department of Basic Education

Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport

Department of Health

Department of Social Development

Local Football Associations

Local Ward Councils

National Youth Development Agency

Provincial and Local Sports Councils

South African Football Association (SAFA)

SAFA Development Agency

South African Police Service

Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading

Grassroot Soccer South Africa is an

independent local organisation affiliated with

Grassroot Soccer Inc.

PARTNERS.

MICHELLE INDIA BAIRDHuman Rights Lawyer

WARREN PARKERHIV/AIDS Public Health and Communication Specialist CADRE

ADVOCATE THOKO MAJOKWENIDirector of the Sexual Offenses and Community Affairs UnitNational Prosecuting Authority of South AfricaFounder, Thuthuzela Care Centres

MARY-JANE MORIFIDirector of Corporate AffairsAnglo Platinum

VUYELWA MAQUBELAEducator Phillips Academy Andover

RISANA ZITHAManaging DirectorMorgan StanleyBoard Chair

CHRIS TODDDirector and AttorneyBowman Gilfillan Inc.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.


STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITIONFIGURES IN RAND 2014 2013

ASSETS Non-Current AssetsProperty, plant and equipment

CURRENT ASSETSInventoriesTrade and other receivablesCash and cash equivalents

TOTAL ASSETS

Equity and Liabilities

EquityRetained income

LIABILITIESCurrent LiabilitiesTrade and other payablesDeferred income

Total Equity and Liabilities

259,515

1,127,875

2,755,539

3,883,414

4,142,929

1,399,267

518,392

2,225,270

2,743,662

4,142,929

520,796

80,019

1,266,987

2,066,216

3,413,222

3,934,018

1,587,612

290,859

2,055,5472,346,406

3,394,018

STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOMEFIGURES IN RAND 2014 2013RevenueOther incomeOperating expensesOperating deficitDeficit before taxationTaxationDeficit for the yearOther comprehensive incomeTotal comprehensive deficit

14,974,32158,580

(15,221,246)(188,345)(188,345)

-(188,345)

-(188,345)

19,194,752197,969

(20,193,417)(800,696)(800,696)

-(800,696)

-(800,696)

FINANCIALS.

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITYFIGURES IN RAND Retained income Total EquityBalance at 01 January 2013Changes in equityTotal comprehensive deficit for the year

Total changes

Balance at 01 January 2014Changes in equityTotal comprehensive deficit for the year

Total changesBalance at 31 December 2014

2,388,308

(800,696)

(800,696)

1,587,612

(188,345)

(188,345)

1,399, 267

2,388,308

(800,696)

(800,696)

1,587,612

(188,345)

(188,345)

1,399, 267

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWSFIGURES IN RAND 2014 2013

activities

Cash generated from operations

activities

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

Sale of property, plant and equipment

Net cash for (used in) investing activities

Total cash movement for the year Cash at the beginning of the year

Total cash at end of the year

577,973

-

111,350

111,350

689,323

2,066,216

2,066,216

245,199

(62,000)

15,614

(46,386)

198,813

1,867,403

2,066,216


PHOTO CREDITS

Cover: Girls participating in SKILLZ Street activity at the Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha, © Kristin Gladney.

Inside Cover: SKILLZ Street graduate Yamkela Nqweniso, age 15, at the Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha.

Page 5: SKILLZ Street participants celebrate during HCT held in Soweto.

Page 6: Grassroot Soccer South Africa Managing Director James Donald.

Page 7: SKILLZ Street participants at the Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha, © Kristin Gladney.

Page 8: (from L to R) Coach Nomsa with her SKILLZ Street Participants in Alexandra. HIV Testing kit at an Alexandra; HIV Counselling and Testing Tournament.

Page 9: (from L to R) Coach and soccer Mentor in Alexandra; Champions League in Alexandra.

Page 11: RV United player Asekwa on the pitch at the Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha.

Page 13: SKILLZ Coaches participate in a Roundtable discussion at the Khayelitsha Football for Hope Centre, with Grassroot Soccer Co-Founder Ethan Zohn.

Page 15: SKILLZ Coaches participate in an energiser activity at the Football for Hope Centre in Alexandra.

Page 16: SKILLZ Street Coach facilitates discussion with participants at an intervention at the Yomelela Primary School in Khayelitsha.

Page 19: SKILLZ Street Coach leads an energiser with participants in Khayelitsha.

Page 21: (from top to bottom) SKILLZ Street Coach explains the I Am Beautiful Practice to participants at the Yomelela Primary School in Khayelitsha; Generation SKILLZ participants and Coaches do an energiser at the Football for Hope Centre in Alexandra.

Page 22: RV United Junior players participate in HIV Attacks activity at the Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha.

Page 24: (from L to R) SKILLZ Core participants; Generation SKILLZ participants playing Fact/Nonsense; Generation SKILLZ participants playing Risk Field at the Soweto centre.

Page 25: (from L to R) SKILLZ Coaches and participants doing an energiser at the Football for Hope Centre in Alexandra; SKILLZ Street participants; Coach Sphe leading SKILLZ session in Alexandra.

: SKILLZ Street participants at the Football for Hope Centre in Alexandra.

Page 26: Coach Development session in Soweto.

Inside Back Cover: SKILLZ Street Participants interact with their Coach at the Yomelela Primary School in Khayelitsha.

THANKS

All other photos © Grassroot Soccer, with thanks to Cory D’Orazio and Jenn Warren.Design by John Connolly.Printing by Lithotech, Cape Town, South Africa.

In Grassroot Soccer we are taught things that we didn’t know, and now we are confident to answer in

class when the teachers ask us.

Female Participant, SKILLZ Street


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