The One World Futbol Blog

Posted on: 01/16/12

Darfur no longer commands headlines, but 272,000 Darfur refugees are still living in 12 crowded camps in Eastern Chad. With your help, we’ll let them know we haven’t forgotten them.

Posted on: 11/20/11

Posted on: 10/17/11

The One World Futbol Project is teaming up with Generation Alive, founded by San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt, to distribute the One World Futbol to …

Posted on: 05/3/11

The One World Futbol Project is focused on bringing the joy of soccer to kids around the world—including those in our own backyard. With the Oakland public schools facing severe budget cuts, athletic programs and equipment are often the first to go. As a result, opportunities for healthy development also disappear. Sports can instill important [...]

Posted on: 04/6/11

This guy’s name is Kayan. He’s a pit bull. The futbol by his side has survived a month, mostly in his mouth, according to his human companion, Alexandra. Another dog-lover, Phil, tells us about his lucky, soccer-loving dog. “Our dog Turbo loves his One World Futbol. He carries it everywhere.” If your dog already has [...]

Posted on: 03/30/11

As you can see at a glance on the home page of our website (under “Our Partners”), we’ve been adding organizational partners at a steady pace. The latest additions to the site are A Ganar and PLAY SOCCER Nonprofit International, each of them an example of sport for peace and development at its very best — A [...]

Posted on: 03/23/11

The Rodriguez High School Interact Club (Fairfield, CA) has raised the money to purchase and send 24 One World Futbols to the Petonville camp in Haiti where 50,000 survivors of the disastrous 2010 earthquake are living. In the photo above, the members of the club are shown with one of the futbols they’re sending. If [...]

Posted on: 03/20/11

This Ugandan boy obviously knows what’s most important in his life! (Photo: FUNDaFIELD) th the One World Futbol now in play through the good offices of 95 nonprofit organizations in 79 countries, we’re starting to get some amazing photos of the futbol in action. How about you? Have you shot photos of the futbol in [...]

Posted on: 03/2/11

The One World Futbol is now “Parent Tested, Parent Approved.” In receiving this prestigious honor, the Project joins Disney, Johnson & Johnson, StrideRite, and other top consumer brands.

Posted on: 02/27/11

This lucky women’s soccer team in Mali, pictured here with their coaches and an American visitor, recently had a (pardon the expression) ball testing out the One World Futbol. Mali is one of the 77 countries around the world where free futbols have been distributed since the One World Futbol Project went into business July [...]

Posted on: 02/21/11

One World Futbol is partnering with A Ganar, the flagship sport for development program of Partners of the Americas, a people-to-people program inspired by President John F. Kennedy and established in 1964. In January, One World Futbol donated 24 balls for A Ganar — Vencer in Brazil, meaning “to win” or “to earn” — to use [...]

Posted on: 01/30/11

Our good friends from FUNDaFIELD recently returned from Uganda, where they’d built their eighth soccer field, held a soccer tournament for 240 boys, and distributed another 20 of our One World Futbols. They’ve sent us a slew of excellent photos. We thought this was one of the best. After all, it shows the two most [...]

Posted on: 11/30/10

So much of our lives these days seems to be spent reacting and even over-reacting. To the world. To the planet. To the country. To our neighborhoods. To our families. Even to ourselves. But, in this time of challenge and change, we actually have the unique opportunity to look at things differently — to take [...]

Posted on: 11/8/10

In Africa, kids often make soccer balls out of plastic garbage bags. The one who owns the ball considers himself lucky. (Photo credit: FUNDaFIELD) When you get to know an amazing young leader like Kyle Weiss, you know there’s hope for the future of the planet. Kyle, now 17 and a senior at Monte Vista [...]