streetfootballworld is proud to announce the induction of six organisations into the streetfootballworld network. Read more about the new streetfootballworld network members below.
Albion in the Community (United Kingdom)
Albion in the Community (AITC) is the charitable arm of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club in Sussex, England. Registered as a not-for-profit organisation in 2005, AITC’s football-based programmes tackle inequality, combat exclusion, challenge social barriers and effect change within the county of Sussex. This organisation has also shown international commitment with its “Football Outreach Programme” in partnership with international and local non-governmental development organisations on Mine Risk Education in Kosovo, on HIV/AIDS prevention in Mali and on peacebuilding in the Middle East and Africa.
www.seagulls.co.uk/page/CommunityHome
Amandla Ku Lutsha (South Africa)
Amandla Ku Lutsha was founded in 2006 to provide structured football leagues to young people who live in children’s homes, shelters, youth tribunals and drug rehabilitation programmes in the broader Cape Town area. Football serves as a tool to teach young people about health, conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS prevention, building up self-esteem and values like commitment, teamwork, communication skills and responsibility. Its Kayelitsha Community Empowerment Tourism and Soccer Programme brings groups to Kayelitsha to play football, volunteer and conduct interactive township tours for tourists.
www.amandlakulutsha.org
Club Deportivo y Cultural Bongiovanni (Argentina)
Founded in 2004, Club Deportivo y Cultural Bongiovanni is active in one of the most impoverished parts of greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. Club Bongiovanni seeks to create spaces and meeting places for different members of the community to recover neighbourhood identity and to promote community development. It uses football to engage young people in non-formal education and leadership skill trainings. Bongiovanni works with the ‘Fútbol Callejero’ methodology, which tries to tap the full potential of football by applying special rules and rituals to the game.
clubdeportivoyculturalbongiovanni.blogspot.com
South East District Youth Empowerment League (Botswana)
Founded in 2005, the South East District Youth Empowerment League (SEDYEL) runs district-wide, community-led football leagues, tournaments and education programmes. Led by youth leaders, these programmes are designed to empower young people as well as promote life skills and safe sexual behaviour. In the Kgatelopele Safe Spaces Programme, young women are encouraged to participate in sports and benefit from its powerful social benefits. The project has created an environment for young women to gather, participate and organise themselves and is being driven by the young women themselves.
The Big Issue (Australia)
Launched in 1996, The Big Issue magazine is a fortnightly independent current affairs and entertainment publication which is sold on the streets by homeless and marginalised people.
The Big Issue’s Community Street Soccer Program uses the power of football to promote social inclusion and personal change for homeless, marginalised and disadvantaged people and aims to change lives and create healthier communities across Australia.
www.bigissue.org.au/street-soccer
The Single Leg Amputee Sport Club (Sierra Leone)
The Single Leg Amputee Sport Club (SLASC) was founded in 2001 at the end of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone. Through amputee football matches, training sessions and events, SLASC promotes disability rights, health and civic education and demonstrates that disabled people are able to play an active role in community development. The players are single leg amputees, while the goalkeepers are single hand or arm amputees. Players use crutches to play instead of prosthetics. In addition, players are not allowed to use their crutches to move the ball whereas all of them use two crutches playing football.
