Many children in Colombia are victims of forced relocations, landmine explosions and sexual exploitation. Families displaced by violence end up in overcrowded and impoverished urban slums, where children have restricted access to school and are left with a high risk of falling into a life of drugs and crime.

Colombianitos’s educational programme, Goals for a Better Life, promotes education through the use of football, music classes, computer labs, professional training and other activities. It is a community-based programme that currently brings hope to approximately 4000 at-risk children. Football is used to teach children self control, decision making, values and ethics, and to give them ambition and direction.