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All Children, but particularly poor children, will be helped
to join India's 'Soccer Street' and participate in the playing
of football. Schemes will be aimed at the metro poor, and
the poor in towns and large villages throughout India. The
aim: to promote soccer, and develop the image of soccer
players and officials as caring people, dedicated to the
sport, and the poor. Schemes to bring football to the poor
of India are inexpensive, and easily organised in collaboration
with reputable Non-Government Organisations (NGO's).
In collaboration with a leading NGO working with 'Street
children' we are devising a regular weekly soccer sessions
for the children of that organisation. We will provide expertise,
training and coaching in puts and the NGO will provide the
space and volunteer manager's referees. In the long term
we will be seeking to merge the two initiatives so that
school children and street children may play the 'beautiful
game' together.
Funding Status:
This scheme is low cost and highly attractive to sponsors.
We are confident that sponsorship will be forthcoming. However,
it is important for the long-term health of these soccer
projects that we are not reliant on the whims or fashions
of individual corporate marketing departments. Long-term
sponsorship of our organisation and long term licensing
agreements with leading manufacturers are essential for
our work with the deprived.
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