Mass. Survivor Winner Helping Kids

Lexington's Zohn Holds 3v3 Tournament to Benefit AIDS Awareness in Africa

March 31, 2009

The winner of “Survivor: Africa” and Lexington, Mass. native Ethan Zohn recently helped put on an AIDS benefit soccer tournament at New York’s Alfred University.

Zohn and the university’s men’s soccer coach, Scott Miller, organized this version of “Lose the Shoes,” a 3v3 soccer tournament held produced by the Grassroots Soccer network, on March 21.

Grassroots holds shoeless soccer tournaments at colleges and universities throughout the country as part of the Kick AIDS campaign. Zohn is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization, which just two years ago held a similar tournament at the University of Vermont.

"What Grassroots Soccer does is train professional soccer players in Africa about HIV and AIDS, and they go into the schools to teach about AIDS prevention,” Zohn told The Fiat Lux, the student newspaper of Alfred University. "The concept here (with the tournament) is kids kind of helping kids."

Over 28 teams participated in the AU event, raising $1,800, which according to Zohn is enough to send 72 Africans through the Grassroots program.

For more information on the program or Grassroots Soccer, visit grassrootsoccer.com.

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