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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Tom Garry

The donation drive that became a movement: ‘If anyone’s got any kit, we’re taking some to Tanzania’

Bristol City’s Malaika Meena sorts through donated kit.
Bristol City’s Malaika Meena sorts through donated kit: ‘It should be a sport that everybody can enjoy, no matter where you’re from.’ Photograph: Courtesy of Malaika Meena

It began with a social media post from a 13-year-old playing in Chelsea’s academy who wanted to offer spare kit to people less fortunate than her.

A decade on Malaika Meena, an established WSL2 player, finds herself sifting through more than 1,000 items collected from players, fans and coaches in the past month alone, as her family tradition of donating football boots and kit to schoolchildren in Tanzania has blossomed into a movement larger than anything she could have imagined.

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