Comments on: Football: Handmade in South Africa http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/15/football-handmade-in-south-africa/ Gadgets in Africa: Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Solar Mobile Chargers http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/15/football-handmade-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-17173 Solar Mobile Chargers Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:00:56 +0000 http://www.afrigadget.com/?p=755#comment-17173 <strong>solar powered backpack...</strong> [...]AfriGadget » Blog Archive » Football: Handmade in South Africa[...]... solar powered backpack…

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]]> By: Maker faire Africa! Ghana 14 – 16 Aug 2009 | Fréeminded http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/15/football-handmade-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-16286 Maker faire Africa! Ghana 14 – 16 Aug 2009 | Fréeminded Tue, 11 May 2010 22:50:57 +0000 http://www.afrigadget.com/?p=755#comment-16286 [...] By the way…. see this ball in the banner? Check out Tash her story on the Afrigadget site here: football handmade in south-africa [...] [...] By the way…. see this ball in the banner? Check out Tash her story on the Afrigadget site here: football handmade in south-africa [...]

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]]> By: The Junkmaster http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/15/football-handmade-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-15561 The Junkmaster Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:09:05 +0000 http://www.afrigadget.com/?p=755#comment-15561 Thanks for this great post. You may also be interested in how you can make a soccer-like ball just using plastic bags - http://www.junkyardsports.com/community/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=313&Itemid=57 - Thanks for this great post. You may also be interested in how you can make a soccer-like ball just using plastic bags – http://www.junkyardsports.com/community/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=313&Itemid=57 -

]]> By: Eliza Anyangwe http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/15/football-handmade-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-15550 Eliza Anyangwe Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:12:15 +0000 http://www.afrigadget.com/?p=755#comment-15550 The creativity and tenacity these young people demonstrate to achieve their dreams is impressive. A Ugandan journalist writes a similar blog on Katine Chronicles about the experiences of 18 year old Samson Ejilu who made his own footballs "by tying string around pieces of paper, cloth, sponge and polythene." http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/blog/2009/may/12/footballer-samson-ejilu Samson and his team got one step closer to their dreams of football stardom by playing in Katine 09, a football tournament organised as part of the Guardian Katine Project - a rural development initiative ran by the Guardian and African NGO Amref. The tournament was an opportunity for passionate football players in the in the improvished eastern region of Uganda to show off their skills to talent scounts, rebuild community spirit shattered by war in the north and catch a glimpse of the revered Barclays Premier League trophy! http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine The creativity and tenacity these young people demonstrate to achieve their dreams is impressive.
A Ugandan journalist writes a similar blog on Katine Chronicles about the experiences of 18 year old Samson Ejilu who made his own footballs “by tying string around pieces of paper, cloth, sponge and polythene.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/blog/2009/may/12/footballer-samson-ejilu

Samson and his team got one step closer to their dreams of football stardom by playing in Katine 09, a football tournament organised as part of the Guardian Katine Project – a rural development initiative ran by the Guardian and African NGO Amref.
The tournament was an opportunity for passionate football players in the in the improvished eastern region of Uganda to show off their skills to talent scounts, rebuild community spirit shattered by war in the north and catch a glimpse of the revered Barclays Premier League trophy!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine

]]> By: Johnny Brooks http://www.afrigadget.com/2009/06/15/football-handmade-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-15545 Johnny Brooks Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:20:44 +0000 http://www.afrigadget.com/?p=755#comment-15545 The girls in our home make these balls, even though we have perfectly good actual balls. Well to be honest the real balls do get punctures easily. Could it be that these homemade balls are better? The girls in our home make these balls, even though we have perfectly good actual balls. Well to be honest the real balls do get punctures easily. Could it be that these homemade balls are better?

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