Ball Tracker: Over 500 Soccer Balls Donated To Date!

Balls Distributed in Rwanda, Costa Rica and Morocco - Photos on Facebook!

Since the Big Ball Project began, we've been able to ship soccer balls to impoverished kids in Rwanda, Costa Rica and Morocco. Check out the photos in our Facebook group and see how much one ball can mean to a child who has so little.

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Behind the Big Ball Project

The story behind the Big Ball Project

Charlie and Annie Cross (ages 13 and 10) of North Carolina were looking through the Sports Illustrated World Cup issue, reading about the world's passion for soccer. Page after page showed children from around the world playing soccer… and one photo stopped Annie and Charlie in their tracks. As they looked at children from Africa playing with a makeshift soccer ball, fashioned out of rags and plastic bags wrapped tightly together, they asked "Is that really what they have to play soccer with?" And an idea was born.

In countries like Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia and others, children spend hour upon hour enjoying the beautiful game. Yet few, if any of these children, have ever touched a real soccer ball. While basics like food are scarce in our world's poorest countries, children still want to run, play and laugh… and soccer is the most favored sport.

We have partnered with two charities to donate balls: New Hope Homes, who are doing wonderful work with orphans in Africa, and World Vision, a wonderful relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Charlie and Annie had the idea to start this web site to raise money to send soccer balls to children all across the world. A donation of $20 will send a soccer ball and ball pump to a child who needs one.