Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 14, 2010
Eight Cambodian children from remote villages of Battambang province were selected by Spirit of Soccer and the Cambodian Football Federation to compete in the Football for Hope Festival 2010 in South Africa, an official event of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The festival featured a mini-World Cup tournament and cultural exchange in Johannesburg that brought together 32 delegations representing 50 countries from around the world.
Team Cambodia wins FIFA Fair Play Award
Opening Ceremony
Ayenyah girls’ volleyball team (Beauty Adzamli, Evelyn Davor, Patience Agyei, Edinam Mensah, Felicia Amenyo, Lydia Ahiadzi, Gladys Adzamli, Lydia Adzamli, Akos Dzidienyo, Mercy Amuzu, Cynthia Amenyo), who participated as representatives of the Dangme west district team, won the championship out of 17 district teams in the Inter-District/Sub Metro Basic Schools Sports Festival in the Greater Accra regional competition that took place between Friday, 30th July and Monday, 2nd August in Ada-Sege.
Seenigama Sport for Life project
This post originally appeared on www.unconditionalcompassion.org. The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation has been supporting the Seenigama Sport for Life project since the tsunami destroyed the coast of Sri Lanka in 2004. Sport was used as a way of bringing people back together to rebuild their communities and give hope to those who had lost everything. Today the project uses sport to tackle issues of rural underdevelopment and to promote life skills of 1400 young people a year.
Zak and the boys from Gosford Hill School
Zak, 14, from Gosford Hill School, Oxfordshire, was recognised as ‘participant who had progressed the most’ during the Finals Day of the Mercedez-Benz sponsored Laureus MotorV8 programme on Friday 16th July.
We received this letter from Grassroot Soccer a Laureus funded project and would like to share this with you.
To get a better understanding what GRS is all about watch the videos and if you want to get involved go to this site.
Dear Grassroot Soccer Friends, Family, and Supporters,
As the global soccer community returns home and the din of the vuvuzelas begins to fade, GRS can see the success of our efforts to leverage the World Cup in the fight against HIV in Africa. In the last month, GRS empowered over 4,500 young South African Skillz Holiday program graduates with the knowledge, skills, and support needed to live HIV free, and provided nearly 15,000 young people with the once in a lifetime opportunity to attend a World Cup match. With the eyes of the world on South Africa, GRS had the unique opportunity to share our work with a global audience, from footage of GRS’ Football For Hope Centre aired at every World Cup match, to coverage by ESPN, USA Today, and Vanity Fair, to an inspiring list of visitors including Queen Sofia of Spain, basketball star Kobe Bryant, and comedian Drew Carey. Read more
