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Women in Football members can now help to support the organisation's activities as well as ethical employment in Africa, thanks to a #GetOnside pledge from the world's only not-for-profit ball manufacturer.

Earlier this year Alive and Kicking joined the #GetOnside family with a pledge to produce a unique football based on a WIF member design, to be made by female team members in Kenya.

After many brilliant design entries were submitted, the WIF community selected Stephanie Rolfe's as the winner. Stephanie, who works as Safeguarding Manager at Birmingham City FC, incorporated a colourful design featuring an acrobatic female footballer which has now been brought to life by the talented team at Alive and Kicking.

Every single one of these footballs is hand-stitched and silk-screen printed for a unique and individual look. Orders are open from now until 13 October. 

Women in Football is proud to be working on this initiative alongside Alive and Kicking, a charity that exists to create happier, healthier, more empowered communities. Alive and Kicking does this by producing sports balls like no other, which helps to create equal access to jobs, equal access to play and equal access to vital health education.

Using the lifecycle of a football, Alive and Kicking helps to grow and strengthen communities around the world. Their footballs are created to have a positive social impact in the way they are manufactured, sold, and used. By buying this ball you’re helping to create positive impact not only through Alive and Kicking, but also by supporting the work we do at WIF.

More than 40 per cent of people in sub-Saharan Africa are living below the poverty line, meaning their income is $1.90 or less per day. Although unemployment rates in these locations have been dropping, more than 70 per cent of jobs are classed as 'vulnerable'. This means workers can have limited access to social protection schemes and may be forced to work in unsafe conditions.

Alive and Kicking provides ethical jobs for people from communities facing these disadvantages. Their employees have access to benefits that are often taken for granted in the global north, including a fair wage, holidays, sick pay, and a pension scheme. If you’d like to support the work they do, order your football today.

Please note that all orders placed are pre-order purchases. Your ball will be delivered within two months of the date you made your order. The £30 price also includes free tracked delivery within the UK.

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