Today marked the 100 day countdown to the World Cup, which was a day of celebration across South Africa. FIFA, alongside the LOC and 100 journalists, had visited all the hosting cities and their stadia. The tour culminated in a lavish banquet at the ICC last night, attended by our CEO Marcus, followed by an event at the Moses Mabhida Stadium today with South Africa due to play tomorrow.

As FIFA’s only Football for Hope implementing partner in KwaZulu natal, we were very excited to hear that FIFA would be coming to Durban and this was heightened when we heard that FIFA would come visit our programme, as our headquarters are just 5 minutes from the stadium. We readied the kids, who all painted banners for the event and organised a tournament and life skills event for the day, involving over 200 kids and staff. Plans then changed slightly; we would not hold the event at our ofifce but we could still take the kids to the stadium to be part of the official event. Finally, yesterday, we were told we could take one kid along to meet the President, not exactly what we had hoped for, but a once in a lifetime for him nonetheless. Lethu Mkhize was selected from Clarence Primary School as their best footballer. 

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