19/12/11 South Africa CEO laughs with children in South Africa Shortly before the end of the year our projects in South Africa had the pleasure of welcoming *Stars of Tomorrow’s CEO Kai Hill. He wanted to see what has happened in our projects during the last half year and was very satisfied with the progress during 2011.
09/11/11 Stellenbosch / South Africa *Stars are shining in Stellenbosch On the 04th November was the kick-off of a new football tournament series, for disadvantaged children in Stellenbosch, this November. This tournament was the first of four events of the Youth Sport Initiative developed by Stellenbosch University’s Sport Performance Institute (SUSPI) and *Stars of Tomorrow. 80 boys and 60 girls from local schools, therefor became true winners of Stellenbosch University’s HOPE Project.
12/09/11 Stellenbosch / South Africa Turning HOPE into action in Stellenbosch The 2nd coaching workshop for our new Youth Leader out of the Western Cape was held at facilities of Stellenbosch Universities Sport Performance Institue (SUSPI) last weekend. 24 participants, this time including 7 girls/women, faced life skills topics such as "HIV/AIDS in Sport“, "Monitoring and Evaluation for coaches“ as well as "violence prevention“. The FUN and sports part came due to two practical focus sessions on Netball and Volleyball.
03/08/11 Soshanguve and worldwide Help 800 children in South Africa to ’Kick AIDS’ This is the Motto of Kick It’s first independent try to search for sponsors. As one of only 183 deserving organisation our pilotproject in Soshanguve was choosen to take part in a „funding ralley“within August. The challenge is to raise $4.000 (about 2.800€ or R28.000) at least, FROM YOU and 49 other different donors.
05/05/11 Stellenbosch / South Africa Partnership with Stellenbosch University gets stronger After a great first year full of success and a lot of progress for the Afterschool Program, we are looking forward to strenghten our academical cooperation with Stellenbosch University´s Sport Performance Institute (SUSPI) in this year. That is why our projectmanager David Kappel helps to implement a Outreach Program in the disadvantaged areas, which are even in South Africas wine stronghold to be found.
07/03/11 Soshanguve / South Africa Huge Kick It tournament in Soshanguve Last weekend there was the first of eight hugh tournaments at Block X Sports Hub in Soshanguve. It is build up to find the best satellite of Kick It. More than 600 children between 8 and 17 played in the sporting codes of soccer for the boys and netball for the girls. The girls fighted not less hard than the boys and the crowd celebrated the teams loudly. Ben, Kedibone and Raphato were the Kick It coaches in charge who where all the time surrouned by the excited kids that asked for the next match.
25/01/11 Johannesburg - Pretoria Working together to achieve even more – Altus Sport & *Stars make children’s eyes shine After working together on various occasions in recent years, our two organizations have now expanded their mutual support to form a strong partnership as of the beginning of this year. The “Life’s a Ball” project in Mamelodi, Klipkruisfontein and Ga-Tankuwa, plus a small heart-warming project in Kliptown (Soweto), are now letting tomorrow’s stars shine.
01/12/10 Soshanguve / Südafrika 100 pairs of shoes for World AIDS Day Thanks to CPM Germany & Nike, *Stars of Tomorrow was able to present 100 pairs of football shoes to its “Kick It” project in Soshanguve today. The children and the entire team in South Africa could barely contain their joy and are kicking it up like world champions.
04/10/10 Soshanguve, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban Patricias comeback to South Africa What is the World Cups legacy for the people – what has it changed in the lifes of girls like Portia, Sophy, Lerato und Philile? Questions like this are the reason for our documentarian Patricia Lewandowska to come back to South Africa and visit her protagonists of “Girlz kickin’ HIV!“ 3 month after the final whistle of the World Cup.
28/08/10 Soshanguve New projectmanager upgrades Kick It Since August 2010 our new projectmanager Patrick Mashanda is upgrading Kick It to an new level. Psychosocial support training of our coaches, the building up of a ’food gardening program’ as well as implementing a database of all in the project participating children are a few of the next steps to reach this aim.
23/08/10 Stellenbosch / South Africa “We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go” “We have come a long way in Stellenbosch in the first half of the year, but we still have a long way to go for sport to have a positive influence on even more children.” This is how Professor Julian Smith (Vice Rector) described the development of the academic cooperation between Stellenbosch University and Stars of Tomorrow e.V.
11/08/10 Berlin “Be committed, be motivated, be Berlin” “Hundreds of committed Berliners applied – and the jury selected 204 faces of the city. The finalists had their photographs taken by professionals, and their larger than life-sized visages are now being placed on the Siegessäule (the “Victory Column”, one of the city’s landmarks). Together, they will become pillars of the city of Berlin.” This is from the official Website of the campaign – and Kai Hill (CEO and initiator of Stars of Tomorrow e.V.) is one of them.
09/08/10 Kant cinema Berlin *Stars of Tomorrow at the film premiere of Themba Last Sunday, August 8, at 11 o’clock in the morning, Kai Hill (CEO and initiator) represented *Stars of Tomorrow at Berlin’s cinematic premiere of the “film that deserves at least one or two Oscars” (Nobel Prize winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu). At a panel discussion held after the 105-minute film, Kai reported on the local work of his organization and applauded director Stefanie Sycholt “for a film that shows the true South Africa and on many occasions brings one to tears...”
11/07/10 International Football Village, Johannesburg “Kick It” team dominates *Stars of Tomorrow’s final World Cup activity in Joburg One day before the huge World Cup final at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, *Stars of Tomorrow’s “Kick It” project was also invited to a tournament. Organized by our friends from Altus Sport and the GTZ (German Society for Technical Cooperation), it was held at the International Football Village not far from the stadium that hosted the World Cup final. Following thrilling and nerve-wracking games, one of our two U-15 teams (each consisting of 4 girls and 4 boys) was able to bring the home-made cup back to Soshanguve.
08/07/10 Alexandra, Johannesburg “Football for Hope” Festival in Alexandra – A development platform using football “Youngsters kick off township festival” reads the official FIFA Website. And 32 teams from around the world will be playing “street soccer” together between July 4 and 10.
01/07/10 Hamburg Kai Hill speaks at the TEDx in Hamburg A video of the TED conference in Hamburg is now available:
30/06/10 Berlin Football legend Jimmy Hartwig at the All Nations Cup Jimmy Hartwig dedicated all of Sunday to the children at the All Nations Cup. A football legend and an actor, Hartwig offered the kids both his impressive presentational skills and his wealth of experience.
27/06/10 Berlin Joining in: All Nations Cup at the World Cup facilities of 11 Freunde The All Nations Cup – held this weekend at the World Cup facilities of 11 Freunde at Revaler Strasse 99 – delighted children from many of the world’s countries today.
22/06/10 South Africa - Germany “World Cup live” from South Africa and Germany “WM-Live” – Under this heading CEO Kai Hill has been writing a vibrant and personal blog about his experiences since the beginning of this great World Cup. Whether from South Africa or back in Berlin, great photos and personal impressions make this new idea from *Stars of Tomorrow an enrichment for every *Stars of Tomorrow fan avidly following the World Cup.
16/06/10 Johannesburg / South Africa *Stars of Tomorrow are a big hit at South Africa’s Youth Day Together with Altus Sport and South Africa’s Department for Sport & Recreation, your *Stars have organized a great event today – June 16, a momentous date in South Africa – at the International Football Village for more than 200 children.
10/06/10 Johannesburg / South Africa “Big Kick” welcomed by children from the *Stars of Tomorrow project today Following an astonishing 10,500 kilometers, two continents, 11 countries and only 49 days, the “Big Kick Ball” arrived at the International Football Village (IFV) in Johannesburg , after leaving Hamburg on April 23. And although the impressive sum of 150,000 € was raised along the way for “Ein Herz für Kinder” and its support for *Stars of Tomorrow’s projects, our real heroes were a small group of children from Kliptown (Soweto).
10/06/10 Berlin All Nations Cup: Patron and Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit calls for participants Klaus Wowereit, the mayor of Berlin, assumes patronage of the All Nations Cup and calls for all 8 to 12-year-old children to sign up for the event to be held June 26-27 at the 11 FREUNDE World Cup facilities in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin.
09/06/10 Soshanguve / South Africa Bild.de road trip with Hadnet and Ees to visit the *Stars of Tomorrow TV/radio presenter Hadnet Tesfai and rapper Ees are on the road in South Africa to get to know the diversity of the country. Accompanied by a camera team, they visited our little stars in Soshanguve today
28/05/10 Hamburg Kai Hill speaks at the TEDx in Hamburg The TEDx has an outstanding conference format, with national and international ideas presented at intervals of 18 minutes. Our CEO Kai Hill was invited to introduce the *Stars of Tomorrow.
21/05/10 Cape Town / South Africa *Starrunner reached the finish It is over – Yesterday Thomas and Claudia finished exhausted, but also proud of their achievement within the last 10 days, the *Starlauf in Cape Town. After the last of overall 422 kilometers our both extreme-athletes were welcomed by Cape Town Tourism in front of the City-Visitor-Center.
20/05/10 Berlin *Stars of Tomorrow, a Berlin face Today the major of Berlin Klaus Wowereit opened the exhibition „Berlin, dein Gesicht“ in the central station of Germanies captial. As anacrusis of the fotoexhibition 29 prominent people had portrayed their social engaged favorite inhabitant of Berlin. Actor and author Moritz Rinke choosed Kai Hill, the Initiator of *Stars of Tomorrow.
15/05/10 South Africa Halftime of the *Starlauf goes South Africa After five exhausting but also exciting days across three south african parks and passing baboons, kudus, elephants, lions, leopards as well as escourted by two wales Thomas & Claudia succesfully completed the first 211 of their 422 marathon kilometers yesterday.
11/05/10 Berlin New *Stars of Tomorrow NEWSLETTER online! The topical newsletter of the *Stars of Tomorrow was uploaded to our homepage today. Furthermore we sended this first newsletter in 2010, which is pronounced true to the World Cup motto “Ke Nako – Celebrate African´s Humanity“, to our faithful followers. If you are interested in newsletters as well as topical information about the *Stars of Tomorrow, please register yourself in our topical distribution list.
10/05/10 Port Elizabeth *STARLAUF GOES SOUTH AFRICA startet today This morning our ultra-marathon-runners Thomas Wenning und Claudia Weber startet their continuation of the *Starlauf from 2008. Themed under “10 marathons within 10 days“ both will again run for our little *Stars, but this time direct in the country where the projects of *Stars of Tomorrow are located – South Africa.
07/05/10 Berlin Interesting interchange of ideas with STREETFOOTBALLWORLD Today we had a very interesting meeting with Thomas Weidner from streetfootballworld. We spoke about synergies and introduced Thomas in the work of *Stars of Tomorrow. He was very inspired and asked our team to visit the streetfootballworld tournament in Alexandra between the 4th and the 10th of July.
24/04/10 Hamburg - Johannesburg “Kick of the year” 2010 The charity campaign known as THE BIG KICK TO JOHANNESBURG was launched at a major event in Hamburg on April 23, and Kai Hill was one of the guests. Just like the Olympic Torch is carried over a very great distance, this campaign will arrange the “longest trip a football has ever taken”, with close to 2,000 agencies of the Hamburg Mannheimer insurance group responsible for dribbling a football from Germany to South Africa.
15/04/10 SCHÖNHAUSER ALLEE 10/11, Berlin New office for *Stars of Tomorrow As of the beginning of this month, your *Stars have been working from a new office of their own, located at Schönhauser Allee 10/11, 10119 Berlin. We have moved into this new and independent space in order to focus all of our energy and concentration during the intensive period of the Football World Cup – the entire Berlin-based *SOT team will be working there together as it tries to make the world a slightly better place...
12/04/10 Berlin We welcome our new ambassadress Tanja Bülter We are pleased to announce a new member of our committed *Stars of Tomorrow team: Tanja Bülter is a well-known television host with many years of experience (RTL/n-tv). She also writes columns, and presents an Internet format as well as many national and international events.
12/03/10 Stellenbosch, South Africa ground-breaking ceremony at Stellenbosch With the after-school program already launched in January of this year, the official ground-breaking ceremony for the football fields at the “Afterschool Youth Centre” was held last week. Attended by project directors as well as many representatives of the local South African media, the ceremony included the announcement that the initial construction phase would already be concluded shortly before the start of the World Cup.
03/03/10 Berlin / Hamburg / Stellenbosch BILD e.V. “Ein Herz für Kinder” supports *Stars of Tomorrow in Stellenbosch “We get involved where kids need help,” is the message on the Website of our new strategic partner “Ein Herz für Kinder” (A Heart for Children). That’s why we’re especially pleased that this well-known aid organization – famous above all for its annual gala donation drive and its ubiquitous “Ein Herz für Kinder” stickers – is getting involved with *Stars of Tomorrow this year and providing financial support for our joint academic cooperation with Stellenbosch University.
08/02/10 Berlin/Südafrika *Starlauf Goes to South Africa Extreme athletes Thomas Wenning and Claudia Weber will be running again for *Stars of Tomorrow e. V.
15/01/10 Berlin 6th *Stars of Tomorrow Executive Board Meeting Friends and partners of *Stars of Tomorrow gathered again on January 15 to review the achievements of the preceding year and to preview the World Cup year under the sign of the *Stars.
04/01/10 Berlin SMS Donation Revival Thanks to spendino GmbH *Stars of Tomorrow succeeded in acquiring spendino GmbH as a new partner at the very start of the new year. spendino will immediately begin providing us with support in fundraising and donor communications.
11/12/09 Berlin Ruth does well for the *Stars Ruth Moschner wins 16,250 Euros for *Stars of Tomorrow at the Star Quiz.
05/12/09 Berlin - Soshanguve - Stellenbosch Cape Town Rocks During a trip for the project at the start of December, Kai Hill and the *stars of tomorrow team met children, coaches and new partners in South Africa. Kai attended the prestigious SoccerEx football convention in Johannesburg and made many interesting new contacts.
30/10/09 Berlin/Soshanguve *Stars of Tomorrow are planing a Christmascampaign If you are thinking of Christmas you are thinking of snow, candle-lights, christmas-trees and Santa Clause as well as having a nice time with your family. You are thinking of many things, of which our children in Southafrica just could dream! That is why we from *Stars of Tomorrow want to give as many of our 1.000 children as possible a better Christmas this year.
09/10/09 Berlin / Stellenbosch One Big Step Forward A new cooperative project between the University of Stellenbosch and *stars of tomorrow, which was already announced in March, will start in January 2010. Last week representatives from both sides met eachother and acknowledged the agenda for the „Cooperative Relationship to Support Youth Development through Soccer“.
30/09/09 Soshanguve / South Africa 1.000 Children in our Project The best news in at first – altogether we have approximately 1.000 children in our *stars of tomorrow Kick-It-Program since August!
25/08/09 Soshanguve / Südafrika news from Soshanguve Our friend and head coach, Rhulani Ngobeni, is reporting from Soshanguve: they worked out the budgetplan for the next six month, the necessary funds are secured. So now there is space for new ideas to take shape!
05/08/09 Berlin/Südafrika Book Preview Beautiful images of our *stars! Carsten Haar, phtographer and journalist, visited our projekct in Soshanguve. Touched and moved by that experience he developed a book project you can check out on the link below!
01/08/09 Berlin make the world a BETTERPLACE.org *stars of tomorrow is part of the betterplace.org community now!
20/03/09 Stellenbosch, South Africa Cooperation with Stellenbosch Since march 2009 it is official: the University of Stellen-
03/05/08 Berlin Arne Friedrich kicks AIDS at Berlin's Olympic Stadium! With the kind support of the Hertha BSC football club, Hertha team captain and German national player Arne Friedrich called on fans at the May 3rd game between Hertha BSC and Karlsruhe SC to donate money via SMS for children in South Africa.
07/04/08 Tuteur House, Berlin Donors to *stars of tomorrow lit up the sky for the children of South Africa! The "Night for the Stars of South Africa" event held at Berlin's Tuteur House on 7 April 2008 honored *stars of tomorrow as a "Place of Ideas" in the "Germany – Land of Ideas" site campaign sponsored jointly by the German federal government and German industry. Harald Pignatelli, a host for the rbb TV/radio station, was the MC for the awards ceremony at which Stefan Bruckner (campaign marketing director) and Ulrich Graf (Deutsche Bank representative) honored the future-oriented social commitment of *stars of tomorrow.
05/02/08 Berlin A burst of activities launches 2008! A new, exciting year has begun, and we are rapidly approaching the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa. We will be using 2008 to continue building a strong bridge between Germany and South Africa in order to provide assistance where it is needed, namely outside the major South African stadiums. To achieve our goal, we're working on a series of activities in 2008, of which we'd like to present just a short selection here...
29/11/07 Berlin Arne Friedrich, a member of the German national football team, is a sports ambassador for *stars of tomorrow! Arne Friedrich is the first sports ambassador for *stars of tomorrow. He announced his commitment to *stars of tomorrow at a press conference today held at the legendary FC Magnet football bar in the Mitte district of Berlin.
21/11/07 Berlin *stars of tomorrow ambassador Ruth Moschner appears on the On Tuesday, 20 November 2007 at 6:30 pm, television host and *stars of tomorrow ambassador Ruth Moschner appeared live as a guest on "zibb", a human interest show on the rbb Berlin-Brandenburg station.
20/11/07 Berlin *stars of tomorrow chosen as a 2008 "Place of Ideas"! *stars of tomorrow convinced the jury for the site campaign known as "Deutschland – Land der Ideen" ("Germany – Land of Ideas") sponsored jointly by the German federal government and German industry, and will represent the country's future-oriented, creative potential as a so-called "Place of Ideas".
08/11/07 Berlin Charity by SMS: It's never been easier to donate! Instructions are hardly necessary for our new method of making donations, because donating has never been easier: Just send an SMS to 81190 with the key word "stars" and that's all there is to it!
16/09/07 Berlin Harald Pignatelli becomes an ambassador for *stars of tomorrow The *stars of tomorrow team has been strengthened by the addition of a new, dynamic ambassador: Harald Pignatelli.
14/08/07 Soshanguve Initiator Kai Hill impressed by progress in the "Although it was some time ago now, I still have very vivid memories – as lively as the children whom I played football with in the *stars of tomorrow project," reported Kai Hill, the initiator of *stars of tomorrow, about his second trip to Soshanguve in South Africa in August of 2007.
10/07/07 Berlin Katharina Schwarz becomes an ambassador for *stars of tomorrow We are pleased to announce that actress and TV personality Katharina Schwarz has joined our circle of ambassadors for *stars of tomorrow.
07/07/07 Bonn The Rheinkultur Festival – A great success 10 bands – 10 hours of sunshine – 10,000 visitors
23/05/07 Bonn *stars of tomorrow at the RhEINKULTUR Festival *stars of tomorrow will turn the Sports Area of the "RhEINKULTUR" Festival into a Football Area this year for the first time, offering visitors and stars a variety of football-related activities. The aim of our appearance at the RhEINKULTUR Festival, which now attracts up to 170,000 visitors, is to inform the public about the *stars of tomorrow initiative and the goals and backgrounds of its various projects.
02/01/07 Berlin 2. Executive Board of *stars of tomorrow Friends and partners of *stars of tomorrow met on 13 December to assess the progress of the outgoing year and to evaluate prospects for the incoming year under the sign of the stars.
07/12/06 Cologne Social Concept becomes strategic fundraising partner of *stars of tomorrow We are proud and grateful to announce that Social Concept has agreed to take over donation management and fundraising consulting for *stars of tomorrow as of January 2007. For 13 years now, this Cologne-based company has been one of Germany's major service providers in the field of social marketing and fundraising for non-profit organizations.
17/11/06 Berlin BunchTV becomes new partner of *stars of tomorrow We have a new partner in a new medium. BunchTV gives *stars of tomorrow the chance to appear on computer screens in the first real Internet television medium (IPTV) – on www.bunch.tv. On December 1, which is World AIDS Day, BunchTV will focus entirely on HIV-related topics and on supporting the aid projects in this area from *stars of tomorrow.
02/11/06 Munich Thomas Darchinger: New ambassador for *stars of tomorrow Thomas Darchinger is so excited about *stars of tomorrow that he has agreed to act as an ambassador for our initiative. An actor for productions such as "Die Löwengrube", "Tatort", and "Rosa Roth", Darchinger became interested in the African continent during film work there.
24/10/06 Berlin Special offer: Auction for last World Cup bags As already announced, *stars of tomorrow is auctioning off the last souvenirs of the 2006 Football World Cup.
02/10/06 Frankfurt World Cup business bags special sale- big success At the beginning of August *stars of tomorrow and the Tourismus+Congress GmbH based in Frankfurt started a special sale of unique business bags made of the World Cup flags.
12/09/06 Munich Siemens gives generous financial support to *stars of tomorrow *stars of tomorrow receives financial support from Siemens.
31/07/06 Berlin Robbie Williams-tickets for free *stars of tomorrow raffled off two tickets for Robbie Williams live at Olympiastadion Berlin!
11/07/06 Berlin The Football World Cup 2006 was a real success We congratulate Italy on the world´s championship in the World Cup 2006 and we wish all teams good luck for the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa!
11/06/06 Cologne Goals For The Good Cause Together with GRAVIS, one of our sponsors, *stars of tomorrow presented itself at the MacExpo Germany just before the World Cup 2006 started. It was the aim to make the initiative more known in public and to collect first donations.
07/06/06 Berlin *stars of tomorrow goes public! Shortly before the start of the Football World Cup on the 9th of June we made our initiative *stars of tomorrow public at a press conference in Berlin. Present were Kai Hill, initiator of the initiative and our first ambassador for the initiative Ruth Moschner as well as high-ranking representatives of our partners in development assistance and of our primary partners.
06/06/06 Berlin KickAIDS – football training against AIDS KickAIDS will be the first project supported by *stars of tomorrow in South Africa. This module links sport activities with the prevention and education about AIDS.
30/05/06 Berlin CARE International as partner for development assistance CARE International Germany supports the selection and planning of projects on site. The internationally recognized organisation is very valuable for the project *stars of tomorrow due to their extensive experience on the African continent.
30/05/06 Berlin Famous support for the *stars of tomorrow project Mrs. Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth, former politician in the German government and an active member in different relief organizations, assumes the patronage for *stars of tomorrow. As honorary chairwoman of the German AIDS-foundation, Mrs. Süssmuth has accompanied the prevention and education on AIDS since 2005. She has supported the foreign aid for many years.
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