Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries
I live in Rwanda and see kids playing with the trash/string balls all the time (among other toys they build out of random waste).  I really don't see the point.  The kids have plenty of fun with their homegrown balls.<p>Just as the cardboard box the toy came in came be more fun than the toy alone, the fun of playing with a ball doesn't come from it being a 'proper' ball, but rather than it is a game to be played with others.<p>This is a first world solution to a problem that it created to make itself feel warm and fuzzy inside.