Tennis for Africa Association (TFA) is a no profit organization founded in 1988 and officially registered in Italy with n° 2836 in 2005/12/13.
The association is made up of a group of tennis enthusiasts with the desire to give a sign of hope to young Africans.
Mission
TFA has the aim at supporting children and families in need in the African continent through the development of sport as a tool to promote the education of youth and combat the poverty.
Description of charity
Since 1990 TFA has been organizing charity activities and events: from 1998 to 2007 TFA realized the “Tennis Day for Africa” the charity event in connection with the Internazionali d’Italia, involving the top Atp and WTA players. The fundraising is active all the year through the organization of charity Web auctions, raffles and with the promotion of activities through the social networks.
Kevin Anderson for Africa
Since the beginning of 2016 Kevin Anderson was the ambassador of Tennis for Africa and offered his support for the promotion of the sport/charity activities. Kevin attended the press conference of Tennis for Africa in Rome during the Masters 1000 in May 2017 introducing the tennis camps initiative in Tanzania.
Areas of focus
TFA supported the Community of Sant'Egidio in different time: the collaboration of football Italian team AS Roma was significant for collecting funds for refugees coming from Syria and Lebanon. Other activities were focussed in Dar es Salaam – Tanzania (since 2013), giving the benefit to youth coming from vulnerable families. In the framework of the sport developing program in Tanzania, TFA has launched new charity tennis camps for youth in 2017 with the patronage of the Italian Olympic Committee -CONI and the Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports of the United Republic of Tanzania (MICAS).
In the following years the activity also took place in Sierra Leone and Kenya.
