Laureus Global Foundation
The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation was founded in 2000 by Daimler and Richemont and is supported by its Global Partners Mercedes-Benz, IWC Schaffhausen and Vodafone. It celebrates the universal power of sport to bring people together as a force for good and uses the passion that sport inspires to effect social change across the globe
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Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Trust South Africa
The South African Foundation was set up in 2002 by Academy
member Morné du Plessis, who remains actively involved through his
role as Chairman. The Foundation is based in Cape Town but the
projects it supports are located all over the vast.
Laureus Foundation Switzerland
The Laureus Foundation Switzerland was launched in June 2007.
The Foundation supports projects which use sport to alleviate the
social problems facing children and young people to give them
greater self-confidence, while promoting the acceptance.
Fundación Laureus Argentina
The Fundación Laureus Argentina was founded in May 2003, by
Academy member, Hugo Porta. The former legendary rugby player is
now President of the Foundation and very involved in
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Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Germany
The first National Foundation was established in Stuttgart,
Germany, in 2001. With the dedicated support of Boris Becker and
Katatrina Witt, the German Foundation funds a large number of
projects throughout the country
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Fondazione Laureus Italia
The Fondazione Laureus Italia, based in Milan and founded in
2005, benefits from an influential local Board of Trustees,
including among others Adriano Galliani, the Vice-President of AC
Milan
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Laureus Foundation USA
With an impressive Board of Trustees that includes four Academy
members - Edwin Moses, Nadia Comaneci, Michael Johnson and John
McEnroe - the US Foundation has a strong team legendary
athletes
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Association Laureus France
The Laureus Sport for Good chapter in France is looking forward
to a re-birth in Autumn 2007, anchored in the dual presidency of
Academy member David Douillet and
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Peres Center for Peace Twinned Basketball schools
Israel / Palestine
The Peres Center for Peace was founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Shimon Peres and began its activities in August 1996. Its mission is to establish an infrastructure of peace for the people in Palestine and Israel. As a non-partisan
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Magic Bus Sport for Development
Mumbai
Magic Bus Sport for Development is a not-for-profit organisation in India that believes in the child's right to play (declared by UN). Magic Bus uses sport as a medium to work on overall child development enabling girls and boys to realise their true
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IMAGE
Rajasthan, India
There are over 90 million people in India living with a serious disability. The result is a society where disabled people are excluded from everyday life and have very little self-respect or personal dignity. These barriers can even extend to exclusion within their own families
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Special Olympics Unified Sports™ Programme
China
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organisation for children and adults with mental handicaps. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, more than one million individuals are involved in year-round training
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Northern Cambodia
Northern Cambodia, Cambodia
Through an innovative method using football and games, boys and girls learn about the dangers of mines and unexploded ordinances as well as their identification. After almost three decades of war
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Indigenous Sports Gold Programme
Australia
The Indigenous Sport Program (ISP) was established in 1993 by the Australian Government following recommendations from a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
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MotorV8
Oxford, UK
MotorV8 is a community outreach programme that uses motor sport to engage with vulnerable young people who are at risk of exclusion from school, and with other disadvantaged groups who find it
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Luta pela Paz (Fight for Peace)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fight for Peace is based in Complexo da Maré, a favela where there has been a decade of territorial drug wars between two of Rio de Janeiro's largest trafficking factions. Here openly armed
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Sports in Underdeveloped Areas
Uruguay
For years the young people in the ghettos of Barrio Rossi in Canelones have found themselves unable to break away from a dreary circle of drugs and delinquency. For them the only
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Unión y Amistad de San Isidro (San Isidro Development Project)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Cava is one of the largest and poorest slums in Buenos Aires. High unemployment and lack of opportunity leaves little hope for young people and there is a prevalence of crime, drugs
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Ciudad Oeste (West City)
Mendoza, Argentina
Crime, vandalism and drugs are problems among the disadvantaged young people in the poverty-stricken area of Cuidad Oeste (West City) in Argentina's most westerly
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I Challenge Myself
New York, USA
I Challenge Myself (ICM) provides public high school students in high-risk communities of New York City with opportunities to increase self-esteem, and health awareness through athletic accomplishment and community involvement
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Fight Back
New York, USA
In the late 1970s, Crotona, in the South Bronx, was burning. Homes and buildings were reduced to rubble. While many fled the devastation, some people stayed, insisting they wanted
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Golf Educatif
Paris, France
Golf Educatif was established in 2000 by Welsh professional golfer Bill Owens to use golf as a tool to fight social exclusion and reduce anti-social behaviour among young people who live in one of the most deprived estates in France.
Midnight Projekte Schweiz
Switzerland
Every Saturday night, Midnight Projekte (Midnight Projects) unlocks the doors of 50 local sports halls to offer leisure-time sporting activities to young people. The active involvement
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BlindSpot
Bern, Switzerland
The aim of the Blindspot Association is to integrate blind and partially sighted children and young adults into society. These youngsters want to be able to let off steam by playing sport and enjoying the same experiences in their free time as other young people
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Buntkicktgut
Switzerland
buntkicktgut is a street football league which uses the power of sport to encourage the integration of young migrants and assist disadvantaged Swiss children to gain greater access
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KICK on Ice
Berlin, Germany
In recent years, a rise in violent behaviour and juvenile delinquency has been recorded in Berlin. Offences have included theft and damage to property and there has been a rise in the number of attacks on people. In an attempt to combat this.
KICK the Ropes
Berlin, Germany
The KICK project was founded on the premise that if young people are given a meaningful purpose in life, they will be deflected away from crime. In eight underprivileged districts in Berlin, this philosophy is being put into practice
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KidSwing
Munich, Germany
Golf is sometimes wrongly regarded in Germany as a sport for the elite, but not everyone realises that it can also be an extremely successful means of therapy for the handicapped.
SPORT FOR ALL
One of the most significant social challenges facing South Africa today is the emergence of an orphan generation, a tragic consequence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is estimated that
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Soweto Schools Rugby Project
Education is one of the keys that can liberate young people. It can equip individuals with the tools they need to create a positive impact in all areas of their lives and can resolve a multitude of social
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KICKFORMORE
Stuttgart, Germany
Football can help young people learn about conflict resolution
both on and off the pitch. The KICKFORMORE project encourages
intercultural learning and tolerance.
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move&do
Stuttgart, Germany
“move&do” is a mobile play and learning centre which visits schools and local communities around Stuttgart. The project was initiated in 2007 thanks to the support of the Laureus Foundation in Germany.
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Makombo-Ndlela Youth Movement
Limpopo, South Africa
The Makomba-Ndlela Youth Movement - best translated as ‘Show the Way' - is a project in Mulima-Hlanganani in Limpopo which aims to establish a sustainable youth development programme
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Little Champs
Johannesburg, South Africa
At the Alexan Kopano Community Centre in Alexandra, a group of young people are put through their paces, kicking footballs and swinging hula-hoops around their waists. An air
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La Palla Storta
Naples, Italy
Naples has always been a city with problems of poverty and deprivation. Today there are neighbourhoods where growing up is a challenge.
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Proyecto Grumet EXIT – Consorci EL FAR (Trainee Sailor Progamme)
Barcelona, Spain
The Proyecto Grumet EXIT (Trainee Sailor Programme) offers young people the opportunity to enhance their educational prospects through a unique maritime projects.
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Free The Youth
Johannesburg, South Africa
South African football legend John Moeti, a member of the Laureus Friends and Ambassadors programme, and his wife Tshidi Moeti, are the inspiration behind the Free The Youth project. John and
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Fight With Insight
Johannesburg, South Africa
Fight With Insight is a boxing project based in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg for young offenders who have completed their diversion programme - an element of the South African youth justice system. Following the 12-week long diversion programme
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Buffalo City Soccer School
East London, South Africa
Sport is used as a hook for youngsters to attend life skill sessions to develop a good understanding of the negative impact of alcohol and drug abuse; as well as HIV/AIDS awareness. Life in Buffalo Flats and Duncan Village is slowly improving. Not long ago, weekends
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Special Olympics
Spain
Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organisation for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Moving The Goalposts
Kilifi District, Kenya
More than two-thirds of the 700,000 population in the Kilifi and Kaloleni coastal districts of Kenya is classified as poor and the domestic burden falls heavily on young women
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Indigo Youth Movement
Durban, South Africa
The Indigo Youth Movement introduces sport and skateboarding to
kids in underprivileged rural communities. Read more
OrphanAid Africa
Greater Accra, Ghana
OrphanAid Africa is dedicated to helping orphans and vulnerable
children in Ghana, introducing them to the valuable lessons of
confidence and camaraderie that are inherent in sport. Read more
Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA)
Nairobi, Kenya
Pioneering the use of football to encourage co-operation, MYSA
helps to raise self-esteem and promotes physical environmental
health across the Mathare community.
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Progetto Polisportiva
Milan, Italy
Created to provide sporting activities for boys who are at risk of
social exclusion. Polisportiva runs activities every day of the
week to ensure the boys understand the importance of discipline,
leadership and teamwork. Read more
It’s a Goal!
It’s a Goal!
Even in a materially affluent society like the United Kingdom, depression is a serious problem. The number of prescriptions for anti-depressants in England and Wales has more than doubled from 10.8 million in 1993 to 26.6 million last year at an annual
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CampInteractive
CampInteractive
CampInteractive's mission is to raise personal confidence and teach new skills to disadvantaged young Americans by a unique mix of nature and technology. The project began as a summer programme in New York in 2001 that introduced the creative power
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Operation Breakthrough
Hong Kong, China
Using rugby and other sports as a mean to fight crime and
juvenile delinquency. Operation breakthrough is seen as a
remarkable success with reduced re-offending rates, evidence of
increased school attendance and great integration into society
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Spirit Of Soccer
Northern Cambodia
By blending play with learning, Spirit of Soccer is able to
positively affect the attitude of young people to the threat of
landmines. Read more
Community Based AIDS Programme
Community Based AIDS Programme
Provides sports activities, healthcare and education in a large slum area where HIV/AIDS is rife. The town of Nakulabye, population 100,000, nestles on the side of a hill about ten minutes
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Courir Pour la Vie
Courir Pour la Vie
Although in many ways, Morocco is a modern 21st century country, much of it, especially the rural and slum areas, still has a very traditional attitude to the role of women. Married young
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Development of Sports and Rights for People with Disabilities
Development of Sports and Rights for People with Disabilities
In the Central African state of Rwanda, within a population of almost eight million, it is estimated there are over 300,000 people with disabilities. Many thousands in the community are amputees
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Seenigama Sport for Life Project
Seenigama Sport for Life Project
The Tsunami Disaster of December 2004 let large areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia devastated. In the months after the disaster, as the people in the worst affected areas tried to come to terms with what had happened, the Laureus
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Fight For Peace
Fight For Peace
Fight for Peace is an innovative project which focuses on young people growing up in communities plagued by crime, gangs and knife and gun violence in multi-cultural inner-city areas within the
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Youth Sport Foyle
Youth Sport Foyle
Youth Sport Foyle was created as a means of contributing to peace and reconciliation in Ireland by removing existing religious and other barriers to young people's participation in sport. The project aims to create
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London Active Communities
London Active Communities
A sport and gang intervention project operating in some of the most troubled areas of London, LAC delivers a multi-sports programme, focusing on football, urban cricket, basketball and boxing
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Club Deportivo Barracas
Club Deportivo Barracas
This community-based initiative in the province of Buenos Aires uses sports as well a traditional Argentine dance, the murga, to reinforce the importance of education, community, and values
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Midnight Basketball League
Midnight Basketball League
The Midnight Basketball League is a national programme that is active in over 60 communities throughout the United States and Australia. It originated in Glenarden, Maryland, as an attempt
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Laureus Cavallo
Laureus Cavallo
The Laureus Cavallo project makes dreams come true for socially disadvantaged children who would like to work with animals and go horse riding. The project began in Winterthur-Unterseen in Switzerland under the direction of the Winterthur Sports Office
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Sport dans la Ville
Sport dans la Ville
Uses sport as a means to encourage young people to avoid antisocial behaviour, teaching them the importance of teamwork, leadership, social integration and racial tolerance.
Future Champs
Future Champs
Khayelitsha, on the outskirts of Cape Town, is one of the largest townships in South Africa, where social ills including crime, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse are rife
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Alexandra Football Academy
Alexandra Football Academy
South African football star Isaac Kungoane aims to assist young people to make the most of their talent and to develop their playing skills; as well as to offer them life skills and HIV/AIDS
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