 The DJ will watch disadvantaged children playing football |
Sussex-based DJ Norman Cook - aka Fatboy Slim - is heading to West Africa to help raise awareness of Aids and the HIV virus through football coaching. The dance music star, famous for his love of Brighton and Hove Albion FC, is patron of the Coaching for Hope project run by International Service.
He will spend time in Mali watching British football coaches teach the sport to local children.
The development agency's scheme is also in Latin America and the Middle East.
'HIV tuition'
Cook, who lives in Hove, admitted the trip was not something he had done before, and that he was "a bit out of his depth".
"It's just about giving kids a chance to have a decent footballing education, and also the HIV awareness thing - which we kind of tagged on the end," he said before departing for Mali on Thursday.
"It's like football is the carrot and we give them a bit of HIV tuition as well."
The project involves coaches from Brighton and Hove Albion, and those from other British clubs, working with children in Africa as well as training local coaches there.
Workshops also help educate young people on HIV and Aids prevention.
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