CNN OutFront Outreach: Helping Mali Refugees

Ways you can help:

Buy a One World Futbol and We'll Donate One too!

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For every One World Futbol you buy, we give a second ball to a community in need through organizations working in disadvantaged communities such as refugee camps, war zones, disaster areas and inner cities.

Currently, our distribution center is based in the US. We realize that shipping costs to some countries may be prohibitively high. As we add distribution centers across the world, these costs will decrease. Meanwhile, if you’d like to donate a ball to children and youth in disadvantaged communities without paying shipping costs, select the “Give Balls” option.

Cost: $39.50

Don't need a ball for yourself? Just Give!

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Don't need a ball for yourself? Then just give! Just indicate below how many balls you'd like to give. We'll make sure they get to children and youth in need through one of our partner organizations.

Cost: $25.00

Erin Burnett - CNN/OutFront

Erin Burnett - CNN/OutFront

The One World Futbol Project is working with CNN’s Erin Burnett/OutFront on their OutFront Outreach campaign “Balls to Mali.” The campaign will send virtually-indestructible One World Futbols to organizations working on the ground with Mali’s refugee children.

The Crisis

During what Amnesty International called “the worst human rights situation in 50 years,” 250,000 people fled Mali when Islamic militants, with links to Al-Qaeda, took control of the northern part of the country.

CNN OutFront first reported on the crisis during the coup in March, and Erin Burnett became the first U.S. anchor to broadcast live and on-site from a Malian refugee camp, just miles from the country’s border. One of the most disturbing things that touched Erin from her times at the camp was watching young children at the camp playing with small dead birds as toys and asking her for soccer balls.

Give One World Futbols

Hoping to improve the situation, Erin Burnett OutFront has teamed up with the One World Futbol Project to give a platform for people to donate One World Futbols to organizations working with youth in the camps. Because the One World Futbol never needs a pump and never goes flat even when punctured, it is the ideal ball for the harsh environment where the Malian refugees are currently living.

Please join our efforts and “Buy One Give One” or just “Give One” here on the right to donate a One World Futbol to the youth in the Mali refugee camps. Together we can help make a positive impact and help better the lives of the children who have been displaced by the crisis in their country.