Peter Fleming, Director
t:+266 2231 2150
f: +266 2231 3141
m: +266 5856 8479
e: pete@kick4life.org

Key Contact:
Ben Houston, Head of Operations
t: +266 5946 9366
e: ben@kick4life.org

Postal Address:
PO BOX 0477
Maseru 100
Lesotho

Physical Address:
397 Hilton Road Block A
Maseru, On road to Lesotho Sun

Overseas Contact:
Stephen Fleming, Director of Development
t: +44 771 099 9169
e: steve@kick4life.org

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Sentebale, Architects 4 Aid, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), Population Services International, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Know Your Status), Peace Corps (US), SOS Childrens Village, GROW, St Bernadettes, Lesotho Football Association, Ministry of Youth, Gender and Sport, Lesotho Planned Parenthood Association.

Vision
The vision of Kick 4 Life is the effective and widespread use of sport as a tool for tackling poverty and disease in the developing world.

Mission
Our mission is to engage youth in the developing world through the power of sport empowering them with the skills to adopt healthy behaviours and to live HIV free, whilst linking them with relevant support networks.

In addition K4L aims to:

• Deliver HIV prevention education and to develop critical life skills;
• Break down stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV;
• Create a direct link between sport-based prevention programmes and health services;
• Use football to target adolescents for HIV testing, health screenings and immediate medical follow-up if necessary.
• Provide opportunities for youth to play sport;
• To provide OVCs and HIV+ youth a chance to have a secondary education

Kick 4 Life deliver a development through sport project that provides a range of health and education services to vulnerable youth in Lesotho.

The project recognises the importance of education and the development of essential life skills. K4Ls programmes aim to provide opportunities for OVCs to develop the skills and knowledge they need to prevent HIV infection, to live healthy lifestyles and to enter employment. Equally K4L recognise the importance of knowing your HIV status in Lesotho, and they aim to provide people with opportunities to be tested for the disease and referred to relevant health services if necessary.

K4L deliver three key programmes in Lesotho:
1.K4L Curriculum
2.Test Your Team
3.Sports Scholarships for OVCs and HIV+ youth

1. K4L Curriculum
An interactive sport-based programme that:

• Educates youth about how to avoid HIV infection including transmission, prevention, risk awareness and peer pressure.
• Diminishes stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV including counselling and testing, gender equality, support of people living with HIV.
• Empowers youth with critical life skills including self-esteem, teamwork, discipline and decision-making.

K4L identifies and trains school teachers, coaches, youth leaders and other community role models to deliver the curriculum to a variety of community groups.

The curriculum creates a fun, friendly and safe environment where youth can play sport and develop healthy attitudes and behaviours concerning HIV.

The programme targets youth (ages 10-18), with a particular focus on orphans and vulnerable children.

2. Test Your Team
The Test Your Team campaign consists of a series of one day football tournaments where HIV education and HIV testing is provided on-site.~ Teams earn tournament points for completing HIV educational sessions, getting HIV tested, and for winning matches.

The campaign targets all youth (10-18 years) and teams are made up of an equal number of boys and girls.

Football is used to educate and motivate individuals for testing in an informal and entertaining environment and attracts at-risk individuals to the events.
Key Aims:

• Use football to educate youth about HIV/AIDS education
• Encourage young people to know their HIV status by creating an atmosphere of positive peer pressure, removing stigma fear and ignorance around testing
• Provide free and confidential HIV testing and counselling.
• Identify children who are HIV positive linking them with immediate medical follow up
• Spread awareness of HIV and the availability of free testing and treatment.
• Encourage families to bring their small children in for screening and testing.

3. Sports Scholarships for OVCs and HIV+ youth
The scheme gives selected OVCs and HIV+ youth a chance to have a secondary education, providing funding for fees, uniforms and books. Through the delivery of other initiatives and input from key local partners, K4L is able to identify, select and then regularly monitor each childs progress throughout their education, supporting them through to employment.

Each child is expected to regularly assist as peer leaders with delivery of the K4L Curriculum throughout the duration of their scholarship.

In their final year of school each scholar must complete the K4L Fit 4 Work programme which supports the transition to employment or further education with sessions on route planning, CV writing, interview techniques and interpersonal skills.

K4L will continue to roll-out and expand their programmes into all ten districts of Lesotho, whilst seeking to work with new and existing partners.