As a result of the Life Skills Football Training curriculum, kids will:

Health Promotion

1. Gain self-efficacy – the perception of having control over one's own health
2. Have accurate knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the ability to refute myths
3. Understand the social issues surrounding sex
4. Understand the importance of HIV testing and know where they can access free voluntary counselling and testing (VCT)
5. Learn sexual health life skills such as:
   • how to put on and use a condom
   • how to negotiate condom use with a partner
   • how to abstain from sex until marriage

Personal development

1. Discover that learning can be fun, and learn lessons in a memorable way that they will be reminded of every time they play football
2. Become goal-oriented, long-term thinkers
3. Be motivated and hopeful for their future
4. Learn many other practical life skills including:
   • how to deal with peer pressure
   • how to recognize and avoid dangerous situations
   • how to build self-confidence to take an HIV test with a new partner
   • how to work in a team.
5. Gain sense of accomplishment for completing the Life Skills curriculum and being awarded with a medal and a certificate

Social Development

1. Become advocates of gender equality and opponents of gender stereotypes
2. No longer see football as a ‘boys sport,’ but as a sport that both boys and girls can excel at and gain opportunities from
3. Become advocates against HIV/AIDS stigma, improving the social lives and self-esteem of HIV-positive kids
4. Appreciate the importance of law and order and following rules

Physical Development

1. Appreciate the benefits of an active lifestyle and constructive use of leisure time (thereby discouraging destructive use of leisure time)
2. Have the opportunity to engage in sport with all the benefits that come from sports – not only physical, but also mental and interpersonal
3. Know the basics of nutrition