K.I.C.K.S is an acronym meaning:
The Key to Implementing Change begins by Kicking a Soccerball
Our mission is to empower children to become leaders in their community.
The KICKS Project is an initiative that promotes the understanding of pertinent local issues through team building via the game of soccer. Our philosophy is that by utilizing the natural team environment that the game of soccer provides, you create an opportunity to address local socioeconomic needs within a community.
The KICKS Project was born out of the idea that soccer inherently creates a team environment; through team comes trust, through trust dialogue is possible and through dialogue change and growth may begin.
Most importantly, KICKS aims to unite the youth of the world in a common goal: to implement essential dialogue and action in communities in need through the universal language of soccer. This natural icebreaker and lesson in teamwork paves the way for essential dialogue paramount to the survival of settlements on the brink of collapse.
In the future, The KICKS Project plans to unite American school children with children around the world to create a common forum where kids on opposite sides of the world can exchange ideas and good will. The ultimate goal being the grassroots creation of local works projects by these KICKS affiliates to impact specific needs within their community.
The Kicks Project
About Me
- The Kicks Project
- The Kicks Project was born out of an excursion to Africa where I met 3 children, Bongi, Donasi and Sorasi, who would change my perspective and purpose in life forever. After playing with them in the surrounding jungles of Marangu, I learned from my translator/guide that they had lost their younger sibling to malaria just days earlier. At that moment, I could not imagine how a disease could ever be so accepted as to be considered a normal way of life for children. I have since conducted fund-raisers in Mexico, helping to raise $7000 for the neglected street kids of Cusco Peru; as well as in my hometown of Philadelphia, breaking a Guinness World Record in moonwalking, earning donations for KidsPeace. In April 2008, I traveled to Brazil on the first sponsored Kicks Project to distribute malaria nets, soccer balls & essential life items to the families of the Para and Amazonas regions. In 2009 Kicks traveled to Trinidad to distribute life essentials to the impoverished orphanages of Port of Spain. We are currently conducting a soccer ball donation project with US soldiers in Afghanistan.