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- STREET LEAGUE - LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION ANDRÉ VILLAS-BOAS MEETS YOUNGSTERS securing jobs through football Tottenham Hotspur Head Coach, André Villas-Boas, visits the Laureus-supported Street League project at one of their London bases in Kings Cross. - 34 -
Just a few months into 2013 and the Foundation had already welcomed a host of exciting new names into the family as Ambassadors all dedicated to championing the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation message. One of these names was Tottenham Hotspur Head Coach André Villas-Boas, who visited the Laureus-supported Street League project at one of their London bases in Kings Cross in May. There he led a special training session for the project members, even running some of his Spurs team’s favourite training exercises in the process. But like all Laureus-supported charity projects, it’s not about the sport alone. The eight-week Street League Academy programme, which is supported by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, delivers employability and life skills training, with three out of every four graduates going on to get a job or return to education. André took time to chat with the participants, aged 16 to 24, about what it means to be a great leader, and also to find out more about how they are bettering their lives through Street League at a time of such high youth unemployment. One of those young people was Clark, who completed the Street League training last year. Having graduated from the project, Clark’s life has changed beyond recognition from what it was before he joined. Recalling life before he discovered Street League, he told Laureus: “Toward the end of my time at school I started bunking, I was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Things at home weren’t good. I could see my mum was not happy with the way I was.” ‘It’s great TO SEE THAT THEY ARE DEVELOPING INTO OTHER CITIES OVER THE NEXT YEARS AND THAT LAUREUS ARE SUPPORTING THEM IN THIS ’ ANDRÉ VILLAS-BOAS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR HEAD COACH - STREET LEAGUE - LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION - 35 - TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR HEAD COACH ANDRÉ VILLAS-BOAS Then Clark found out about Street League during his search for work having left school. Now, thanks to the opportunities given to him at the project and the help he received in building up his own CV, he has secured a position working at a top London law firm. Now he has his eyes set firmly on the future. And having worked for a year now in and around lawyers, the profession is really sparking his interest. “I’m looking into para-legal stuff… I’m really interested in that and my supervisor is so supportive. I’m around good people,” he said. It’s a remarkable turn-around for the young man from north London. But it is also one that Laureus and Street League are helping bring about more and more often. As André said: “The numbers are absolutely staggering - 76% of the graduates go on to further education training or directly into employment. “To be able to pick up kids from prisons, job centres, people that are in the most difficult situations that want that breakthrough moment in their life but for some reason or the other they can’t get it. … it’s great to see that Street League are developing into other cities over the next years and that Laureus are supporting them in this.”
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