Seoul design studio Unplug Design have designed an aid package
that can be made into a football by children in developing
countries. Called Dreamball, the object consists of a
cylindrical container for the delivery of aid packages, which
the children can roll to where it will be needed instead of
having to carry it. Paper around this container is printed with
a pattern that can be used to make balls of different sizes.
Here's some text from the designers: 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. 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. We suggest this
Dream Ball made of relief boxes delivered to t