We use the structure, the discipline and the belonging that sport gives to reach what is much harder to get at: gang culture, crime, drugs and violence at home. And we work hard on girls taking part, because a session is only open if it feels safe enough to come back to.
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Three stages, the same in every country, and the programme our interns and volunteers work in.
Across all three stages we count who takes part and who drops out, so we can put the support where it is needed most.
Our supporting organisations sit in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. They send the interns and volunteers who run the sessions, they fund the programmes so they keep going, and they ship kit so children can play in something they are proud of.
The foundation started in the Netherlands and grew from there into an international one.
This is where the work actually happens. Local organisations, local coaches and local teachers who know the neighbourhood and the children in it.
Our programmes run in Argentina, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Indonesia and Nepal, each one shaped to its own context. Our ambition is seven locations worldwide.
One programme, ten names. Every country runs it under a name its own children recognise.
