The first Football for Hope Centre opened its doors on 6 December in Khayelitsha in Cape Town.
FIFA president Joseph Blatter was joined by Western Cape premier Helen Zille, 2010 Fifa World Cup Organising Committee South Africa chief executive Danny Jordaan, South African Football Association president Kirsten Nematandani and executive mayor of the City of Cape Town Dan Plato, at the celebration of the latest milestone of 20 Centres for 2010, the official campaign of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The centre, which is the first of 20 community centres, will help to tackle HIV-Aids and some of the biggest issues facing young people across the African continent. The next five centres will be built by FIFA and its strategic ally, the streetfootballworld NGO, in disadvantaged communities in Kenya, Namibia, Mali, Rwanda and Ghana.