Theron, LA club teaming up to build soccer programs for underprivileged kids in SAfrica

Theron helping to build fields for SAfrican kids

Charlize Theron is giving underprivileged South African children a place to play soccer.

The Academy Award winner’s Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project is teaming up with LAFC Chelsea Soccer Club in Los Angeles to build community soccer programs. In addition to soccer fields, uniforms and equipment, kids involved in the program will receive health education and services.

The project, announced Tuesday, will serve schools in South Africa’s Umkhanyakude District, an area plagued by a high rate of HIV infection. Theron hopes to have the first fields built by the time the World Cup begins next June 11.