KitAid
KitAid has been sending your unwanted football shirts across the globe! Find out how to get involved...
Last Updated: 25/01/08 10:43am
This season we've been asking you to send in your old shirts and kits - all in the name of charity - and we'd like to start by saying thank you because your support has been overwhelming.
The KitAid charity, whose patron is Graham Taylor, has been sending unwanted football kits to children and adults across Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe since 1998 when a man called Derrick Williams visited Tanzania.
Derrick, who is passionate about football, realised that the young children in villages in Tanzania shared the same love of football and on his return home spoke to work colleagues and friends about what he had seen.
Shortly afterwards the first box of donated football kit was on its way to the children he'd met in Tanzania.
The willingness of people around him, led Derrick to set up KitAid and the appeal has grown year on year with a total of around 10,000 children receiving shirts, kit and football's in Tanzania, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Eastern Europe.
The next shipment will be leaving on February 7th to Gambia and if you would like to send in your shirts, you can at the following address; Soccer AM, PO Box 11, Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 5QQ.
We will of course show you what happens when the latest delivery arrives on the show in a few weeks time.
