! Football United ! & Southern Sudan Youth Sports Association
Football is the world game. In Australia it’s called soccer. In every country in the world there are people who love to play football. In Australia we have people who come from all over the world, and football is a way people can share a common passion and a common language. It doesn’t matter if you’re from different cultures or speak different languages, if you speak the language of football, then you can play.
There is a great project called Football United which is providing a place for young people to play football. Every Saturday from 9 am - 12 noon there is Football in the Park, which is held at Campbell Reserve in Blacktown (see map here). Everyone is welcome to come along and play.
Football United is the Australian member of Street Football World. Street Football World, in connection with FIFA, have created the Football for Hope movement. Football for Hope will be holding a festival in the last week of the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.
The people at Football United are also connected to the great work being done by the Southern Sudan Youth Sports Association (SSYSA). This project is fighting child labour in places like Juba (see map of Sudan here). In places like Juba (see map of Juba Town here) many children have to work as shoe-shiners, beggars and in other jobs for little money because they don’t have anyone to support them. The SSYSA was created to use football as a way of giving these children food and education.
The SSYSA has held football clinics at the Street Kids Centres in the suburbs of Konyo Konyo and Muniki. In the clinics kids get the chance to train and play together as a team. This also provided a chance to feed the kids and give them good advice on football and, more importantly, on life. After the success of the two football clinics, the SSYSA held a tournament with all the teams from the different centres.
Sudan is a country with many problems. This makes the work that is being done by the SSYSA all the more important and inspiring.
If you would like to find out more about Football United or the Southern Sudan Youth Sports Association, then please get in touch with us at: info@nexusproject.net.au
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Bravo.This is good news.Finally there is someone thinking about the poor Sudanese child.I am so pleased to see such projects coming up in Sudan.I would like to ask even more people to get involved in Sudan.These children need help.Keep it up SSYSA,am part of you.
Edgar,
U.S.A.
This will be like a dream come true to those kids who are running there in a dust. Those pictures reversed me back to a past but unfortunately i dont have a wings to fly otherwise they should be wearing their boots not bearfooted. My personal advise is to keep it up children bse we are here in Australia running the Football United program. It is mattar of time but in future you may achieve what you have been dreaming of so keep it up dont give up!!!
Cheers.
Lual