Soccer 4 Hope
Location
Soccer 4 Hope is using sport as a vehicle to help young women in South Africa to play sports and addresses the urgent need to empower women and girls, build their personal skills, and fight the pandemics of sexual violence and HIV/Aids.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Molly
Last Name
Blair
Website
School or Organization
Hoops 4 Hope
Country
United States
Section 2: About Your Organization
School/Organization Name
Hoops 4 Hope
School/Organization Website
School/Organization Phone
631.267.8682
School/Organization Address
Po Box 895, East Hampton, NY 11937
School/Organization Country
United States
Your idea
Are you a
Other
How does your innovation currently get kids (or how might it get kids) engaged in physical activity? How would your idea or project potentially be implemented during the school day?
Soccer 4 Hope is the leader in providing sustainable and innovative programs for the empowerment and upliftment of female youth in disadvantaged communities through soccer based education, health, and skills for life programs. Our training model, Skills 4 Life, could easily be transferred to any community or group and certainly could be implemented during the school day.
Name Your Project
Soccer 4 Hope
How many children does this program currently or plan to serve? How much time does each child spend daily/weekly engaged in physical activity? (150 words max)
S4H currently empowers and uplifts 2000+ female youth (ages 11 – 13) within the Western Cape of South Africa, through the implementation of the Soccer and Skills 4 Life program by 30+ trained youth facilitators (ages 16 – 23). Our programs run 3 times per week, for 90 minutes each.
Describe Your Idea
Soccer 4 Hope is using sport as a vehicle to help young women in South Africa to play sports and addresses the urgent need to empower women and girls, build their personal skills, and fight the pandemics of sexual violence and HIV/Aids.
Tell us the story behind the social innovator. (150 words max)
Mark Crandall - International Director & Founder
Mark Crandall first traveled to Africa in 1984 at age fifteen to spend a year of high school as a Rotary exchange student in Zimbabwe. He graduated from the University of Vermont 90' with a BA in sociology and attended the School of International Training in Australia. He founded Hoops 4 Hope (H4H), a 501c3 organization in 1995. Over a decade later, Mark realized the tremendous need to serve a South African, female population through soccer. Thus, in 2006, S4H was born!
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