Coaching for Hope - Skillshare International
PROGRAMME Coaching for Hope
LOCATION flagship programmes in Burkina Faso, Mali and South Africa, pilot projects have been run in Bolivia, and Botswana
FIELD OF WORK education employability gender health social integration youth leadership
TARGET GROUP Young people, street children and orphans aged 8-18 in developing countries
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 6,000
USING FOOTBALL SINCE 2004
MEMBER SINCE 2007
WEBSITE www.coachingforhope.org

Skillshare International’s Coaching for Hope (CFH) educates and empowers children in the developing world through football. It enables young people to make healthy decisions about their future by expanding the capacity of local coaches and youth workers in at-risk areas to deliver football and HIV/AIDS education.

Coaching for Hope provides grassroots coaches with its highly acclaimed curriculum, offering three levels of qualification that combine quality football coaching with a social curriculum based on HIV/AIDS prevention, substance misuse education and disability inclusion. CFH has trained over 700 coaches who have worked with over 35,000 children and young people.

 

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    Jane CarterDirector
  • Address
    Clements Hall, Nunthorpe Road
    York YO23 1BW
    UK
  • Phone
    +44 1904 543383

Blog

Dec 04, 2009 | Beckham visits CFH programme

On 3rd December, 2009, David Beckham, Lucas Radebe and Lord David Triesman, Chairman of the FA, visited a Coaching for Hope project in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa.  This high level delegation witnessed three groups of young people ...

Oct 19, 2009 | Coaching for Hope Programme for Youths Affected by the Floods in Ouagadougou

On September 1 st flash floods claimed 187 lives and affected 635,273 people in West Africa [1]. On that day in Burkina Faso, one of the most impoverished nations on earth, an estimated 100,000 people, including two employees of Coaching for Hope, had ...

Oct 19, 2009 | CFH finishes the summer in style!

Summer 2009 has been an active and inspirational season for Coaching for Hope. With three coach training courses, the first annual staff meeting, new recruitments, and networking opportunities, Coaching for Hope has been buzzing. Read on for more details ...
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