I really enjoyed your delivery model section where the first goals must be scored by girls and points are given on various basis. It is also an interesting approach that you will not have referees. I am curious who keeps the points? Also if you have held any games using these new rules, I would love to hear a little story about it!
Thank you for your response and welcome to the Changemakers community!
Soccer for Peace
The rules of the game:
1. There are seven players per team.
2. Minimum two girls and two boys per team.
3 The first goal of each team is converted by a girl, otherwise it does not count.
4. There is no referee; the players learn how to solve their own conflicts.
5. Hearts awarded for goals as well as for the application of players' agreements of tolerance, respect, solidarity and collaboration. Peaceful coexistence agreements are made by players at the beginning of every game in a small meeting.
6. The facilitator is available for conflict mediation; facilitator also keeps score and the summary document of the game.
7. The hearts are awarded by the players in the evaluation meeting at the end of each game. Hearts are converted to points tabulated for the championship in the community.
This methodology (soccer for peace) has been implemented extensively in Medellin, Colombia, saving many lives and contributing to peace ion the communities. Today, there are previous enemy gangs that play soccer for peace. I understand it is also being implemenetd in Brasil, Argentina and some african countries.
At Fundacion Futbol con Corazon we have already certified 20 instructors / facilitators and are building our first field to start with 300 boys and girls at the end of February. We have made some exercises to try the concept with extraordinary results. We hope to be able to intervene in 100 fields and 30,000 children in our program in five years.
Fundacion Futbol con Corazon is perfecting the operational model and will expand by working with government, other NGO's and private companies. We hope we can get help from Ashoka.
Dear Samuel,
I really appreciate the way you have incorporated girls into the game and model for peace building. I think your model teaches cooperation between boys and girls and respect for both. I wonder if you could write something about any challenges you have encountered with the girls and their specific needs and challenges in peace building. Are you addressing any specific gender-based violence or the way conflict affects women and girls in particular? Are you using soccer to also address the needs of girls and their empowerment like a possible lower self esteem, violence, etc.? And finally, is your project also using soccer as a platform to include the voices of girls and/or their mothers in specific peace and resolution activities with their communities?
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Dear Mr. Azout:
I really enjoyed your delivery model section where the first goals must be scored by girls and points are given on various basis. It is also an interesting approach that you will not have referees. I am curious who keeps the points? Also if you have held any games using these new rules, I would love to hear a little story about it!
Thank you for your response and welcome to the Changemakers community!
Tyler Ahn
Changemakers
Soccer for Peace
The rules of the game:
1. There are seven players per team.
2. Minimum two girls and two boys per team.
3 The first goal of each team is converted by a girl, otherwise it does not count.
4. There is no referee; the players learn how to solve their own conflicts.
5. Hearts awarded for goals as well as for the application of players' agreements of tolerance, respect, solidarity and collaboration. Peaceful coexistence agreements are made by players at the beginning of every game in a small meeting.
6. The facilitator is available for conflict mediation; facilitator also keeps score and the summary document of the game.
7. The hearts are awarded by the players in the evaluation meeting at the end of each game. Hearts are converted to points tabulated for the championship in the community.
This methodology (soccer for peace) has been implemented extensively in Medellin, Colombia, saving many lives and contributing to peace ion the communities. Today, there are previous enemy gangs that play soccer for peace. I understand it is also being implemenetd in Brasil, Argentina and some african countries.
At Fundacion Futbol con Corazon we have already certified 20 instructors / facilitators and are building our first field to start with 300 boys and girls at the end of February. We have made some exercises to try the concept with extraordinary results. We hope to be able to intervene in 100 fields and 30,000 children in our program in five years.
Fundacion Futbol con Corazon is perfecting the operational model and will expand by working with government, other NGO's and private companies. We hope we can get help from Ashoka.
Dear Samuel,
I really appreciate the way you have incorporated girls into the game and model for peace building. I think your model teaches cooperation between boys and girls and respect for both. I wonder if you could write something about any challenges you have encountered with the girls and their specific needs and challenges in peace building. Are you addressing any specific gender-based violence or the way conflict affects women and girls in particular? Are you using soccer to also address the needs of girls and their empowerment like a possible lower self esteem, violence, etc.? And finally, is your project also using soccer as a platform to include the voices of girls and/or their mothers in specific peace and resolution activities with their communities?
Astrid Aafjes,
Women Win
www.womenwin.org
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