Football: BLUE & READ - AIDS awareness from football; EVERTON COACHES HELP IN AFRICA.FOOTBALL coaches from major clubs have spent the summer running a football camp for children in Mali. Four coaches from Everton, Spurs and Brighton and Hove Hove (hōv), city (1991 pop. 65,587), East Sussex, SE England. It is a modern residential seaside resort. Albion trained 200 children, half of whom were deaf and blind on the Coaching for Hope programme organised by Leicester based charity Skillshare International. The programme is supported by the Football Association and Adidas, which also trains youth workers in Mali and Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (burkē`nə fä`sō), republic (2005 est. pop. 13,925,000), 105,869 sq mi (274,200 sq km), W Africa. It borders on Mali in the west and north, on Niger in the northeast, on Benin in the southeast, and on Togo, Ghana, and to FA coaching standards and aims to use football to raise awareness of HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and AIDS. Programme patron Fatboy Slim Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook on July 31, 1963,[1] also known as Norman Cook) is a English big beat musician. He stopped using 'Quentin' and began calling himself 'Norman' while a schoolboy, long before he adopted any other pseudonym. - real name Norman Cook - visited the camp last year. He said: "Using football to engage young people in Africa about the dangers of HIV and AIDS is a brilliant idea and it works. I will never forget my trip to the Mali Coaching for Hope school. It will stay with me forever." Spurs coach Gareth Jones Gareth Jones can refer to:
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