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PROJECT LIST 36 PROJECT LIST PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE GLOBAL FOUNDATION AFRICA Community Based Aids Programme (COBAP) / Kampala, Uganda. Provides sports activities, healthcare and education in a large slum area where HIV/AIDS is rife. Social Issues: Health and education; reduction of juvenile delinquency. Courir pour la Vie / Morocco. In order to fulfil its mission of ‘developing girls’ rights in rural Morocco’, the project seeks to increase the confidence and independence of girls through sporting activities and workshops and to promote a change in socially acceptable roles for females in Moroccan society. Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) / Nairobi, Kenya. Football league of over 1 000 teams where youngsters are encouraged to improve their health and wellbeing, thus raising their self-esteem. Was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 and 2004. Social Issues: Self-esteem; education; health and environmental awareness. Right to Play SportWorks Project / Idrimi and Milé refugee camps, Chad. Provides regular structured sport and play activities to contribute to the normalisation process for children and youth while they are living in refugee camps. Social Issues: Self-esteem; community building; capacity building and inclusion. ASIA Magic Bus / Mumbai, India. Creates ‘classrooms without walls’ offering sports activities, education, food and healthcare. Social Issues: Health awareness; crime prevention; gender equality; counteracting negative peer pressure; malnutrition. Operation Breakthrough / Hong Kong. Operates in partnership with the Hong Kong Police and the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union to help fight crime and juvenile delinquency amongst low-income and immigrant communities. Social Issues: Rehabilitation of youth offenders; crime prevention. Seenigama Sports Programme / Galle Sri Lanka. Aims to address the lack of opportunity in rural areas, increase inter-village communication and female participation in community decisions, while rebuilding an area devastated by the Tsunami. Social Issues: Community regeneration; trauma relief; increase employment opportunities. Special Olympics Unified Sports Programme / China. Breaks down social barriers by bringing together youngsters with and without mental disabilities to play sport. Social Issues: Integration; education; promotion of physical health. Spirit of Soccer / Cambodia. Through an innovative method using football and games, boys and girls learn about the dangers of mines and unexploded ordinances as well as their identification. Social Issues: Mine awareness; self-esteem; female empowerment. Sucheta Kriplani Shiksha Niketan (SKSN) / Rajasthan, India. School for the disabled, including polio victims, who take part in sport with able-bodied children, helping to break down community prejudices. Social Issues: Breaking down social taboos on disabled individuals; gender equality; empowerment. EUROPE Fight for Peace / London, United Kingdom. Based on Luta pela Paz (Fight for Peace) in Rio de Janeiro, the project uses boxing to provide alternatives to crime and violence for youth from deprived estates in East London. It’s A Goal! / Manchester, United Kingdom. Combats depression by encouraging young people to attend discussions using sport as a metaphor in a local football club. Social Issues: Depression; social exclusion; potential suicide. Youth Sport Foyle / Donegal, Northern Ireland. Cross-border peace initiative that brings together communities in multisport activities to create an environment in which every young person can participate irrespective of race, religion, ability, gender or economic circumstance. Social Issues: Tolerance; integration; cultural exchange; peace building; community regeneration. MIDDLE EAST Peres Center for Peace / Israel & Palestine. The Twinned Peace Basketball programme promotes sports cooperation between Palestinian and Israeli communities. Social Issues: Peace-building; discrimination; stereotyping; negative perception of ‘the other side’; intergroup conflict resolution. OCEANIA Indigenous Sports Gold Programme / Australia. An activities programme targeting young indigenous people as an aid to discouraging antisocial and criminal behaviours as well as developing and sustaining community cohesiveness.Social Issues: Inclusion; increasing employment opportunities; reduction of crime and antisocial behaviour. SOUTH AMERICA IT Crossover Programme / Grenada, West Indies. Provides basketball and IT courses to help in the rebuilding of the community following the devastation of Hurricane Ivan. Social Issues: Community and capacity building; reduction of poverty, delinquency and drug abuse. Luta Pela Paz (Fight for Peace) / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Based in Maré, an area of Rio de Janeiro plagued by drug gang wars, the project uses boxing as a tool to provide alternatives to crime. Social Issues: Reduce crime, drug trafficking and armed violence; education; unemployment. Meninos do Morumbi / Sao Paulo, Brazil. This project provides an afterschool learning centre offering music and sport activities. They believe the social, cognitive, and competitive characteristics present in sports have a positive effect on children, their families and the community. Social Issues: Reduction of violent conflict, crime, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, gangsterism, family abuse, HIV/AIDS. Sports in Underdeveloped Areas / Canelones, Uruguay. The Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation implements a project to reduce school absenteeism, delinquency and drug abuse in underdeveloped areas. Social Issues: Integral education; gender equality; community integration; health awareness. L A U R E U S S P O R T F O R G O O D F O U N D A T I O N A N N U A L R E V I E W PROJECTS FUNDED BY NATIONAL FOUNDATIONS ARGENTINA Ciudad Oeste (West City) / Mendoza. Uses football, netball, hockey and basketball to address crime, delinquency and drug abuse and to promote community regeneration. Social Issues: Reduce youth delinquency and substance abuse; self-esteem; education; community regeneration. Club Deportivo Barracas / General Lamadrid, Argentina. This communitybased initiative in the province of Buenos Aires uses sports as well a traditional Argentine dance, the murga, to reinforce the importance of education, community, and values. Unión y Amistad de San Isidro (San Isidro Development Project) / Buenos Aires. Sports activity sessions and educational workshops in an area where crime, drugs, alcohol, violence and the use of firearms are prevalent. Social Issues: Reduce youth delinquency and substance abuse; self-esteem; education; health awareness. (funded by the Global Foundation, managed by the Argentinian Foundation) FRANCE Bout de Vie / Corsica. While providing outdoor physical activity, this programme creates an environment in which the young handicapped people can integrate, adapt and overcome their disabilities. Social Issues: Self-esteem; disability; integration. Golf Educatif / Paris. This project adapts the game of golf for suburban living and uses it as a tool to fight social exclusion and reduce antisocial behaviour and drug abuse among young people who live on low-income estates. Social Issues: Integration; motivation; prevention of drug abuse; increasing opportunities. Sport dans la Ville / Lyon. Uses sport as a means to encourage young people to avoid antisocial behaviour, teaching them the importance of teamwork, leadership, social integration and racial tolerance.
Social Issues: Integration of immigrants; reduction of drug abuse, violence and unemployment; peaceful conflict resolution. GERMANY KICK Formore / Stuttgart. Uses the ‘Streetfootball for Tolerance’ methodology to promote intercultural learning, tolerance and conflict resolution. Social Issues: Conflict resolution; decrease xenophobia; goal-setting; self-esteem; leadership. KICK KidSwing / Berlin. An offshoot of KidSwing, this project provides children, who are unable to walk, the use of the ‘paragolfer’ device which enables them to play golf with able-bodied peers from underprivileged backgrounds. Social Issues: Self-esteem; education; health; environmental awareness. KICK on Ice / Berlin. Clubs throughout Berlin run late-night sessions to encourage youngsters off the streets to play ice hockey and to attend citizenship workshops. Social Issues: Delinquency; substance abuse; truancy; integration. KICK the Ropes / Berlin. Uses a ropebased obstacle course, which requires dialogue and teamwork, to promote social integration. Social Issues: Crime prevention; reduction of substance abuse; integration of immigrants; increase employment opportunities. KidSwing / Munich. Golf is used as an alternative physical therapy for disabled children while encouraging personal motivation and integration. Social Issues: Integration; self-confidence; physical therapy. move&do / Stuttgart. This mobile project drives to schools with the aim of fostering social integration amongst pupils through innovative exercises and games that require trust, teamwork, and good communication skills with which to resolve conflicts . ITALY Centro Sportivo Martinitt / Milan. Aims to combine sport activity and psychological support to provide a complete therapy and assist in the social integration of children from different cultural and family backgrounds. Social Issues: Post-traumatic stress; lack of family support system; self-esteem; teamwork; compliance to rules and discipline. Federazione Italiana Wheelchair Hockey. Gives an opportunity for muscular dystrophy sufferers to enjoy moments of sporting activity from which they are usually excluded. Social Issues: Self-esteem; teamwork; integration; goalsetting; development of role models. Palla Storta / Naples. A rugby project based in a juvenile jail in Naples, targeting youth at risk of getting involved with organised crime and helping ease the process or reintegration for youth who have served time in jail. SOUTH AFRICA Alexandra Football Academy / Johannesburg. Aims to assist young people to make the most of their talent and to develop their playing skills as well as teaching them life skills, offer HIV/AIDS counselling, nutrition and dietary advice. Social Issues: HIV/AIDS awareness, substance abuse; nutrition; increase of future opportunities. Buffalo City Soccer School / East London. Sport is used as a hook for youngsters to attend life-skill sessions to develop a good understanding of the negative impact of alcohol and drug abuse, as well as HIV/AIDS education. Social Issues: Reduction of violence; prevention of drug abuse, alcoholism and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Fight with Insight / Johannesburg. A boxing project based in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg for young offenders who have completed their diversion programme – an element of the South African youth-justice system. Social Issues: Reduction of crime, violence and aggression; social reintegration; self-discipline; respect for rules; respect for the others; conflict resolution; taking responsibility. Free the Youth / Johannesburg. Modular-based programme combining life skills and sport to educate and encourage young people. Social Issues: Sex education; public speaking; how to handle peer pressure; healthy living; leadership. Future Champs / Cape Town. Through sports, reading clubs, life skills and study groups, the project enhances opportunities for youngsters, who might otherwise be drawn into a world of crime and drug abuse, to realise their full potential. Helderberg Partnership Project / Cape Town. Children receive sports coaching while social workers raise awareness of juvenile sexual abuse. Social Issues: Awareness, prevention and treatment of child abuse as well as substance abuse. Little Champs / Johannesburg. Teaches children in disadvantaged communities (mostly illiterate) basic sporting skills and improving their learning skills. Social Issues: Improve learning skills; development of motor skills; self-esteem; leadership. PeacePlayers International / KwaZulu Natal. Breaks down racial barriers, trains young adults to be mentors and educates children about Aids and other critical health issues. Social Issues: HIV/AIDS awareness; reduction of crime, substance abuse and school dropout; leadership. Starfish Sport / Johannesburg. Provides food, security and shelter for hundreds of children affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Social Issues: Overall development; orphans; HIV/AIDS education; child abuse prevention. SPAIN Proyecto Grumet EXIT - Consorci EL FAR / Barcelona. Offers young people the opportunity to enhance their educational and job prospects through traditional sailing in Barcelona. Social Issues: Education; teamwork. Special Olympics - Spain. Aims to promote the personal development and integration of individuals with mental disabilities through a diverse range of sporting activities. SWITZERLAND BlindSpot. Breaks down barriers between sight-impaired and sighted young people through activities such as snowboarding and rock climbing buntkicktgut. A public, intercultural street football league which aims to use the power of sport to encourage the integration of young migrants throughout Switzerland USA Camp Interactive / New York and Miami. Its mission is to raise personal confidence and teach new skills to disadvantaged young Americans through a unique mix of nature and technology. Social Issues: low self-esteem; unemployment; citizenship. Fight Back / New York Innovative martial arts project in South Bronx which offers a self-defence programme to women at risk of abuse and other vulnerable youth. Social Issues: Self-esteem; role models; gangsterism; reduction of violence. I Challenge Myself / New York. Provides public high-school students in high-risk situations with opportunities to increase self-esteem and health awareness through athletic accomplishment and community involvement. Social Issues: Personal achievement; leadership; selfesteem; health awareness. Midnight Basketball League / Virginia. Tackles drug and crime problems by getting young people off the street and onto the basketball court. Social Issues: Reduction of crime and drug abuse; citizenship; inclusion. Total number of projects at the end of 2007: 51 L A U R E U S S P O R T F O R G O O D F O U N D A T I O N A N N U A L R E V I E W PROJECT LIST 37
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