Look To The Stars News: Roger Federer Foundation

Roger Federer's Charity Initiative For Malawi

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Tennis champion Roger Federer has launched a $3.3 million initiative to build schools in Malawi through his Roger Federer Foundation.

In association with Action Aid International Malawi, the tennis legend has launched a ten-year initiative to support early childhood education. The aim is to sustainably improve the quality of care and education in 80 Community Based Childcare Centers (“CBCCs”) and thus facilitate school entry for around 54,000 children between 4 and 6 years of age. The CBCCs will be gradually supported with the following measures:

800 early childhood educators are trained and coached in order to learn how to encourage, nourish and educate children

Roger Federer And Rafael Nadal Raise $2.6 Million For Charity

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:00:00 +0000

World No. 1 Rafael Nadal and rival Roger Federer raised $2.6 million Tuesday night in the first of two exhibition tennis matches to raise funds for their respective foundations.

Nadal suffered a defeat to Federer in their opening clash in Zurich. The match, dubbed “Match for Africa,” raised funds for the Roger Federer Foundation.

“The focus is just solely on two players and one match,” Federer said after the match. “There was quite a pressure going into a match like this, but at the end of the day, it’s so not important who won the match tonight. It was a match for Africa, this money is going to go to a good cause — for my foundation, for kids in Africa — so I’m so proud and so happy that we all made it work, so thanks again to everybody.”

Roger Federer Visits Ethiopia For Charity

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:00 +0000

The Roger Federer Foundation spends approximately $1 million a year on education in Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Mali, Malawi and Zimbabwe, so it’s no surprise that this week we find the Grand Slam champion visiting a school in Ethiopia where he received a hero’s welcome.

“My Mum being from South Africa is obviously the inspiration behind the foundation,” Roger Federer said, “I went there on vacation a lot when I was younger. So we started with a project in South Africa and, as I got older and got more money, I wanted to expand…when I arrived at the school and all of the children were singing, it was very emotional,” Federer told Reuters. “They sang, `Roger, our Father’ to me. I didn’t really understand it at the beginning but I still had tears in my eyes.”

Federer is hopeful that his seven-month old twin girls, Myla and Charlene, will grow up to appreciate the world around them: “I definitely want to show them that this world exists as well,” Federer said, gesturing at the tin-roofed classrooms around him, “There’s no way around it for them because I’ll be traveling. It will be a very exciting ten years for me because I’ll be trying to educate and help them and show them all these things.”