Dear Patrick -- Thank you for sharing your proposal! I have one question that would help better visualize this program: could you provide more details on the potential impact to beneficiaries? Specifically, it seems like this proposal combines both job creation/skill development and sports for youth; I'd love understand more on how these two components could help directly help the youth you are targeting.
I, too, enjoyed reading your proposal, Patrick. You've obviously thought about your suggestions a great deal. One point that you raised caught my attention, though I have to admit that it's not your main theme. You note that many athletes in various sports reach their prime in their late-teens and early-twenties.
I don't know enough about soccer, or fusbol, to comment specifically about it. However, I know that other sports permit a more graceful aging with one's skills intact. E.g., distance runners often don't reach their peak till their late-twenties. (I recall that the gold medalist in the marathon in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles was a thirty-seven-year-old Spaniard.) And in baseball, pitchers and designated hitters often retain many of their skills even into their early-forties. It seems as if wisdom and canniness help them compensate for declining athletic prowess.
Still, I think that your argument is well-taken in that we need to make the tools and opportunities of sports available to the world's youth at a very young age. Good thoughts!
Hi Patrick,
Have you seen Trevor Dudley's proposal? You guys should get together and use his organization as a pilot for your vision - he has identified the same barrier ! I also think that you have a particular competitive advantage in the vision you have for a sustainable venture leveraging plastic bags. Many of the organizations on this competition and many others in your immediate geographic vicinity, could be clients of the sports equipment you seek to produce. This could enable you to focus on your core competency of business/ entrepreneurship as a skill to pass along to the young people enabling partner organizations to focus on delivering many of the other program elements that you have identified.
I would love some more clarification on your growth strategy. As you mention that the seed funding and the idea is self-supporting, how has it indeed become so? What is it about your idea, your model that has made replication so strong as to be self supported? I think others can be enlightened by your response, and we would love your thoughts on this.
I would love some more clarification on your growth strategy. As you mention that the seed funding and the idea is self-supporting, how has it indeed become so? What is it about your idea, your model that has made replication so strong as to be self supported? I think others can be enlightened by your response, and we would love your thoughts on this.
What is the price of the proposed workshops? Will they cost money to attend? If so, how much? When you say cheap equipment do you mean cheap as in price or quality?
Charles Rush
Center for the Study of Sport in Society
Northeastern University
It is absolutely an interesting concept you are using to work on two main problems (poverty and pollution). As we understand it, you intend to serve 100.000 children and indirectly reach 1.000.000 children in 6 months with 18 people working for the project. This sounds very ambitious to us and we were wondering what strategy you are using to reach this goal. Our second question concerns the street children involved in the project. Do you have a reason why you intend to include only a small amount of street children (50 on 100.000)? In our view, they might be the ones with the greatest lack of accessibility to sport activities and the ones with the highest need to generate income.
We are looking forward to see the implementation and the effects of this project. Good luck.
It would be great for you to get in touch with Trevor Dudley. Trevor is an Ashoka fellow and he has entered the competition with his “The Kids League KIT 4 KIDS” entry that is working to develop sports equipment in Tanzania. Together perhaps the two of you could come up with some great ideas of how to make each of your project thrive! His email is thekidsleague@yahool.com.uk We hope that you will get in touch!
Also, part of your delivery model response was cut off due to the word limitations. Perhaps you could edit the response to be sure that the most important information is included? What is your concrete strategy? How do you plan to sell the goods that are produced? What is your business plan for marketing and distribution?
Could you tell us more about what is involved in the concept training workshops?
Lastly, can you explain how the bags are used to make balls?
I hope to hear from you soon.
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
I like the idea o behind your project of providing children in Kenya a cheap access to sport – in this case football. But to what extent do you mean should those kids contribute to the household income by producing sports equipment? Are there any restrictions plant? Otherwise this concept could backfire. Also you mention numerous and rather different goals regarding child development, cultural barriers, poverty, unemployment, pollution – how do you plan to combine or meet all those goals?
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Dear Patrick -- Thank you for sharing your proposal! I have one question that would help better visualize this program: could you provide more details on the potential impact to beneficiaries? Specifically, it seems like this proposal combines both job creation/skill development and sports for youth; I'd love understand more on how these two components could help directly help the youth you are targeting.
Many thanks, Tito Llantada
Changemakers.net
I, too, enjoyed reading your proposal, Patrick. You've obviously thought about your suggestions a great deal. One point that you raised caught my attention, though I have to admit that it's not your main theme. You note that many athletes in various sports reach their prime in their late-teens and early-twenties.
I don't know enough about soccer, or fusbol, to comment specifically about it. However, I know that other sports permit a more graceful aging with one's skills intact. E.g., distance runners often don't reach their peak till their late-twenties. (I recall that the gold medalist in the marathon in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles was a thirty-seven-year-old Spaniard.) And in baseball, pitchers and designated hitters often retain many of their skills even into their early-forties. It seems as if wisdom and canniness help them compensate for declining athletic prowess.
Still, I think that your argument is well-taken in that we need to make the tools and opportunities of sports available to the world's youth at a very young age. Good thoughts!
Steve Byars
Hi Patrick,
Have you seen Trevor Dudley's proposal? You guys should get together and use his organization as a pilot for your vision - he has identified the same barrier ! I also think that you have a particular competitive advantage in the vision you have for a sustainable venture leveraging plastic bags. Many of the organizations on this competition and many others in your immediate geographic vicinity, could be clients of the sports equipment you seek to produce. This could enable you to focus on your core competency of business/ entrepreneurship as a skill to pass along to the young people enabling partner organizations to focus on delivering many of the other program elements that you have identified.
Best of luck!
Ziba
Dear Mr. Gathitu:
I would love some more clarification on your growth strategy. As you mention that the seed funding and the idea is self-supporting, how has it indeed become so? What is it about your idea, your model that has made replication so strong as to be self supported? I think others can be enlightened by your response, and we would love your thoughts on this.
Thank you in advance for your response!
Best,
Changemakers Team
Dear Mr. Gathitu:
I would love some more clarification on your growth strategy. As you mention that the seed funding and the idea is self-supporting, how has it indeed become so? What is it about your idea, your model that has made replication so strong as to be self supported? I think others can be enlightened by your response, and we would love your thoughts on this.
Thank you in advance for your response!
Best,
Changemakers Team
What is the price of the proposed workshops? Will they cost money to attend? If so, how much? When you say cheap equipment do you mean cheap as in price or quality?
Charles Rush
Center for the Study of Sport in Society
Northeastern University
Dear Mr. Gathitu,
It is absolutely an interesting concept you are using to work on two main problems (poverty and pollution). As we understand it, you intend to serve 100.000 children and indirectly reach 1.000.000 children in 6 months with 18 people working for the project. This sounds very ambitious to us and we were wondering what strategy you are using to reach this goal. Our second question concerns the street children involved in the project. Do you have a reason why you intend to include only a small amount of street children (50 on 100.000)? In our view, they might be the ones with the greatest lack of accessibility to sport activities and the ones with the highest need to generate income.
We are looking forward to see the implementation and the effects of this project. Good luck.
Pierre and Steffi
It would be great for you to get in touch with Trevor Dudley. Trevor is an Ashoka fellow and he has entered the competition with his “The Kids League KIT 4 KIDS” entry that is working to develop sports equipment in Tanzania. Together perhaps the two of you could come up with some great ideas of how to make each of your project thrive! His email is thekidsleague@yahool.com.uk We hope that you will get in touch!
Also, part of your delivery model response was cut off due to the word limitations. Perhaps you could edit the response to be sure that the most important information is included? What is your concrete strategy? How do you plan to sell the goods that are produced? What is your business plan for marketing and distribution?
Could you tell us more about what is involved in the concept training workshops?
Lastly, can you explain how the bags are used to make balls?
I hope to hear from you soon.
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Patrick,
I like the idea o behind your project of providing children in Kenya a cheap access to sport – in this case football. But to what extent do you mean should those kids contribute to the household income by producing sports equipment? Are there any restrictions plant? Otherwise this concept could backfire. Also you mention numerous and rather different goals regarding child development, cultural barriers, poverty, unemployment, pollution – how do you plan to combine or meet all those goals?
Thanks a lot for your answers,
Cheers Benedikt
Spirit of Football Project Group
University of Erfurt
www.spiritoffootball.com
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