The event involved over 800 participants from five shelters and four schools involved in the central Johannesburg project. The project, funded by the Royal Netherlands Embassy involves three main stakeholders, Bidvest Wits Soccer Club, Hillbrow SAPS and SCORE.

Twenty ex professional soccer players from the SA Soccer Legends deliver soccer training three times a week to girls and boys from six shelters and seven schools in the Hillbrow area. The soccer training is supplemented by a focus on life and leadership skills from the coaches and SCORE peer educator David Mallela.

On the day of the event 11 community peer leaders trained in Kicking Aids Out! activities by David delivered Kicking Aids Out! life skills games and activities to over 300 youth. The event itself was sponsored by ABI whose generous support in terms of catering, sound system and motivational speaker enhanced the atmosphere for all involved. It was a real display of partnership with Hillbrow SAPS transporting the majority of the youth from the police station to the venue, and back again.

It was a fitting way to mark the first 8 months of the project, which can only gain momentum in the 2010 year.