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Grassroots football project
Summary to date
Following the success of the Philippine team in the Street Child World Cup and the Philippine Naonal
team, the Azkals, in the Suzuki Cup, football in the Philippines has been taking o.
The rise in football has enabled Triple E to partner in starng a football team at Payatas dumpsite.Payatas is a dumpsite in Manila where tens of
thousands of people live, scavenging from the
rubbish to nd things to sell, recycle and even eat.
Despite such poverty, the people are incredibly
creave, intelligent and hard-working and at the
rst session there were over 100 children playing
football on a small basketball court, which proved
quite a challenge!
Football oers a great opportunity to help others;
nutrion and tness, for example, are promoted
throughout. Because of poor diet, the Philippines
has the highest rate of diabetes in the world and
ranks highly for heart problems too! Football oers us a chance to educate the kids about these issues,
while providing a sense of community and a source of pride.
The advantages of football are well known, the game provides a level playing eld, where merit, hard -
work and skill, not accident of birth, are the determinants of a persons success. Through tying football
development to community development we have the beginnings of some great opportunies as team
work, discipline, building self-esteem and newly found knowledge are all translated into the real world.
These developments in the prole of Philippine football are feeding into the excing developments of Tri-
ple E. Already receiving great feedback from some of the members of the Philippine Football Federaon
(the Filipino version of the UKs FA) and support from a number of high prole people within sporng and
polical communies, grassroots football is more and more being aached to community development.
Working in partnership with each of us pulling togetherwe can achieve things we could have only imagined
before. From nothing weve started a football team in
one of the poorest areas of Manila and are ready to
play friendly matches and join tournaments this year.
With the establishment of the drop-in centres for
street kids football will become an integral part of our
vision ; a vision where we see the world changed one
life, or perhaps one team, at a me.
The Philippine Naonal team - The Azkals
For tens of thousands of people at Payatas this is
hometogether we can become part of something
good
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BenetsThe grassroots project is already becomingan important part of many poor communi-
es in Manila and indeed the centre of some
childrens lives. Football is more than just agame to them and the project has the po-
tenal to grow from strength to strength.
The benets can be simply summarised as
this:
Basic SkillsThe chance to learn to play football is highly
movang to many children. It can be used
as a vehicle to encourage and develop basic
skills. Many children (having grown up play-
ing basketball, the number one sport in the
Philippines) are sll learning to play success-
fully and need lots of chances to pracce
and learn the discipline that comes through
teamwork and sharing a vision. Waing,
good listening and following an adults direc-
on rather than their own agenda are really important skills to master. They are skills that as some of the
poorest children in the region they were oen never given the chance to learn and so are now geng
that opportunity, which is a challenge to anyone! A lack of these skills is oen the reason why a lot of
street children will get into ghts on the streets. If they are lucky enough to be in school, a lack of these
skills is oen the reason they will nd it dicult to integrate and to learn, oen being suspended or ex-
cluded. Geng a hang of these skills opens the door to future opportunies, such as geng an educaon
and ulmately a job to support themselves and their
families.
CoordinaonMany children who are brought up on the streets or in
areas of extreme deprivaon will have good physical co-
ordinaon as this is needed in order to survive. Applying
what they needed on the streets to something more pro-
ducve we can show that even when looked down on by
others, and when others gave up on them, these Filipinos
can achieve great things. With football, they will learn
more about passing, teamwork, tness and being able to
use their skills for a more construcve and posive goal
as part of a team.
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FriendshipMany poor children have diculty
trusng others and geng along
with people they do not know
well. As many have experienced
abuse from an early age this is un-derstandable, but oen makes it
hard to build a community. Within
the structured seng of football
training, where the children are
geng constant support and en-
couragement, they learn to form
bonds of friendship and trust
through being part of a team and
sharing experiences and insights
with one another.
Being part of a teamFootball teaches kids how to take both individual and collecve responsibility for what happens. Players
learn that working as a team will mean making chances for other players rather than trying to score on
their own all the me. It is good pracce for the street children to have a lile experience of thinking stra-
tegically, thinking for the future, which will then be directed to them thinking about their future outsideof sport.
Playing football teaches children to play by
the rules and accept decisions they may
disagree with. Children with no personal
boundaries oen nd it hard to put them-
selves in someone elses shoes or to have
a sense of jusce, and they need plenty of
safe chances to pracce acceptable waysto manage disappointment.
With football we can create safe and struc-
tured opportunies to train and play but
also to learn social and internal bounda-
ries. Football provides that inial step to
encourage, enable and empower the kids;
from training to win the beauful game to
training to create their own beauful life.
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Can you help? Trainers/football boots: Many of the kids are too poor to
have a pair of shoes. If they do, as you will have seen in some
of the photos, they usually share these with siblings as it is
their only pair for the family. This means that when they play
football they tend to play in bare feet or slippers so we are
always looking for trainers and football boots for the kids to
use. The condion doesnt maer so much as Filipinos are
very creave and can x almost anything.
Sponsor a coach: We are currently dependent on a volunteer coach and to make sure the pro-
gramme stays running we will at some point need to employ a coach to ensure the connuaon of
the project. To sponsor a coach will cost roughly 150 per month, which will cover their living ex-
penses, travelling costs to and from training as well as friendly games and tournaments.
Sponsor a team: We are in need of football kits too, so to sponsor the making of the uniforms in the
Philippines (as our sister charitys cooperave can make such things much cheaper than in the UK),
or to sponsor maintenance and general training costs, such as the nutrional aspect of the training,
would also be a huge help. As it is sponsorship, your company or organisaon would be adversed
in the same way as professional teams adverse sponsors on kits and training grounds.
Sponsor a player's educaon: Many of the children are very poor and have to work as their families
cannot aord to send them to school. To sponsor a childs educaon would cost approximately 30
per month. The child would then be able to learn to play football and maintain strong links with us,
parcularly with our social worker, whilst geng an educaon to gain the skills and qualicaons to
li themselves and their families out of poverty.
Our GuaranteeWe guarantee to make sure that anything you donate will go to the designated project or person and not
into administraon costs. We will also keep you updated with how the
project is progressing through regular reports, pictures and where elsethe project has made the news.
Thank you!
Contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.triplee.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1325 310804
Address: St Francis Vicarage, Burnhope,
Newton Ayclie, Durham,
DL5 7ER