The donation drive that became a movement: ‘If anyone’s got any kit, we’re taking some to Tanzania’
WSL2 midfielder Malaika Meena has been collecting football kit to send to her ‘favourite country in the world’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. Continue reading...