Operation Dreamball: Aid packages come in wrappers that turn into kids' balls

[Are_grits_groceries]

Darren Barefoot sez, "A very clever idea: instead of wasting the packaging that aid to the developing world comes in, enable it to be folded into a makeshift soccer (or other type of) ball.

However, the children are so poor that they can not buy a football. So, they play football with the ball made of plastic bag or a coconut palm leaves Therefore, giving them their own footballs which can give them hope, is our aim of this project.


Operation Dreamball:
To the children in The Third World; Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Congo and etc, who can't enjoy football freely because of poverty, war and natural disaster, having a football means a lot and can be a dream and hope to escape from their poor life.
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We suggest this Dream Ball made of relief boxes delivered to those poor children by recycling.

A. Create patterns that can help making a ball on the surface of an aid box.
B. Activities of giving aid boxes to children in The Third World.
C. The used aid boxes will be recycled as a football by children with the patterns on boxes.
D. By making Dream Ball with the children together, the aid organizations will get the chance to be friendly with them.


Aid box
If children take off the paper from an aid box by following the patterns on it, and assemble those parts with the attached instruction, they can get a football.
We can apply those patterns on any type of boxes - a square type, a cylinder type.

Now, when children get a cylinder type aid box filled with supply, they can move it by rolling that box.


http://www.unplugdesign.com/project2.html

Now this is an innovative idea!

[Javaman]

1. that's pretty clever. nt

[HopeHoops]

2. Great idea, but DAMN that OP looked suspicious.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. What do you mean? nt

[MissB]

4. I assume the poster read the same thing I did.

Where kids balls= not sports equipment but rather body parts.

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. Whoops! My bad. nt

[Xithras]

6. I wonder if anyone has ever studied why humans like foot ball games so much.

Seriously. From Africa, to the Inuit, to Europe, the Far East, and even North American natives and Meso-America, virtually every human society on Earth has some native version of a "kick the ball around with your foot" game that can be traced far back into prehistory. No matter where you go on this planet, if you hand a crowd a soft ball, someone will drop it onto the ground and start kicking it around.

Now that I think about it, cats and dogs do the same thing. I wonder if the fascination with swatting balls around is just something that is innate to mammals.

Either way, this is a cool idea. The only downside I see is that the boxes appear to be made of cardboard, which won't last long. It's kind of mean to give kids a ball that is simply going to fall apart in a week. I would hope, if this is implemented, that the boxes are at least sprayed with something to make the paper a bit more durable.