This year, the World Cup comes to Africa and a campaign has been launched to use this event to promote "education for all". Kibera Mpira Mtaani demonstrates how football and education work well together. Kibera slums are home to an estimated 1million people with many families living on just $1 a day. There is virtually no sanitation and most families live in a room 10ft by 6ft constructed of mud walls with an iron sheet roof. Parents and guardians often spend most of their day searching for food or trying to earn money to provide for their families. While many children attend informal schools during the day, after school and during holiday periods the children of Kibera are often left to fend for themselves. This can result in them loitering in the streets and sometimes becoming involved in drug abuse, petty crime or prostitution. Kibera Mpira Mtaani aims to address this issue by hosting football tournaments during school holidays. By co-ordinating large-scale tournaments for a variety of categories from Under 10 to Under 16 and Ladies, KMM aims to ensure that children are watching, competing in or training for a match under the supervision of volunteer coaches and officials. The last tournament hosted attracted 124 teams resulting in over 2,000 children taking part over a 6 week period. These tournaments also give KMM a forum to educate the children of Kibera about HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, the importance of education etc. The name Kibera Mpira Mtaani means Kibera Village Football but this Community Based Organisation is about much more than just football. In February 2009, the organization moved to the next level with the launch of a library/resource centre. Equipped entirely by donations and staffed by volunteers, the resource centre offers a safe, well lit place for students to study after school and some of the committee members and football coaches also tutor subjects such as maths, English and science. In December 2009, 18 students who had been tutored at Kibera Mpira Mtaani received the news that they had passed their primary school exam. KMM then helped source scholarships for at least 8 of these students to go to secondary. This was a fantastic achievement for their forst year and one on which they hope to build in 2010. As with all Vision Africa projects, Kibera Mpira Mtaani is currently looking to set up income generating activities to become self-sufficient. In the meantime, we are keen to support them in their fundraising efforts as we have seen the value in their work. As they are in rented accommodation, we need to find £600 to pay the rental of 2 rooms for a year. As volunteers, committee members are given a small allowance which assists them with transport and communication. This will cost £800 for the year. To fund each of the holiday tournaments costs around £2500 – this pays for pitch hire, officials, balls, first aid, prizes and a finals day. Additional funds would allow expansion of the resource centre project and additional tournaments for the informal schools in Kibera which are not supported by the government. Full budgets are available on request.