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1st Women’s Soccer League of Brazil - LHFFA

To realize sports events and amateur women’s soccer championships; maintenance of the active LHFFA web portal about women’s soccer.

About You

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Contact Information

Title

Mrs.

First name

Laura

Last name

Machado

Your job title

Presidente

Name of your organization

LHFFA Liga Hamburguesa de Futebol feminino amador

Organization type

ONG

Annual budget/currency

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Location

Project Street Address

Rua Guia Lopes nº 363

Project City

Novo Hamburgo

Project Province/State

RS

Project Postal/Zip Code

93425-000

Project Country

Brazil

Your idea

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Modalidades esportivas: (Assinale todas que estiverem de acordo com a sua iniciativa)

Futebol

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Qual é o tipo de abordagem que a sua iniciativa incorpora? (Assinale as alternativas que se aplicam)

Serviços

Year the initative began (yyyy)

2006

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Barreiras

Ausência de equidade com apoio financeiro, equipamentos, estrutura

Princípios

Facilitar o acesso ao esporte e oferecer oportunidades

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Name Your Project

1st Women’s Soccer League of Brazil - LHFFA

Describe Your Idea

To realize sports events and amateur women’s soccer championships; maintenance of the active LHFFA web portal about women’s soccer.

Innovation

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Em uma frase, descreva sua inovação ou sua nova idéia

To realize sports events and amateur women’s soccer championships; maintenance of the active LHFFA web portal about women’s soccer.

Você tem atualmente alguma parceria ou aliança? Se sim, liste-a(s) e descreva sucintamente a parceria.

Everything is done in a voluntary basis; we do not count on public financial support. LHFFA promotes championships for Garotas Show de Bola (girls) and Garotos Show de Bola (boys). The subscription fee is 1 Kg of non-perishable food products or, during winter, clothes. Those are donated to the families of the LHFAA girls. The referee team is composed by girls in the boys’ matches and vice-versa. People with no means to pay the subscription fee pay for that with referee services. Whoever gets a yellow card acts as an assistant referee and red cards are “punishable” with the responsibility of acting as referee. Whoever does not wish to act as referee can pay with 5Kg of food.

Quantas pessoas você beneficia ou pretende beneficiar (direta ou indiretamente)?

Both masculine and feminine branches – in my project I need both walking together. Boys and girls starting from 5 years old to veterans.

Quais são os tipos de parceria?

Benefits to Clients

Prizes are trophies and medals. Best players may be taken for tests in big soccer teams, if they help with the feminine events. For girls, besides trophies and medals, we offer covers in online magazines and videos so soccer clubs can see them for a possible contract.

Como você implementa(rá) sua inovação e como responde(rá) às dificuldades que está enfrentando?

A Soccer League is made of soccer clubs, and LHFFA faces difficulties to obtain financial support from the government because soccer laws in Brazil neither allow nor encourage it. Since Brazilian clubs do not have women’s soccer teams, LHFFA cannot count on financial resources to realize the sports events. Our teenagers are our tomorrow, we urgently need to hear them before they are taken by drug dealers. Soccer and sports in general are crucial to spend their energy and build a better world.

Impact

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Fornecer uma frase descrevendo o seu impacto ou impacto desejado

The best about the project is to reunite families through Sport. We need all families united to keep realizing championships.

Como você mensura o impacto/êxito da sua inovação e como a qualifica?

Media is everybody’s dream, and today the internet makes that dream available to all classes. LHFFA voluntarily sought to make digital technology to reach the reality of the most humble class. I took three boys in 2002, one of them hearing-impaired, and offered them the opportunity to appear in newspapers, TV, radio, on Saturdays and Sundays. They were shy in the beginning, but after they saw themselves on TV and main newspapers helping women’s soccer, everything has changed.

A sua iniciativa influencia em políticas (dentro de instituições ou governo)? (até 30 palavras)

I am not affiliated to any political party. Every time I seek politicians they run away from me, only to return during elections season full false projects.

Além da sustentabilidade financeira, como você pretende ampliar a sua iniciativa?

I am a widow with a pension and also work as a hairdresser, and I use part of my salary to help the women youth. I believe I will be able to promote all the sport events and respect all chronograms. I have time, as all my sons are grown-ups. We will start the events as soon as the financial support arrives.

Origin of the Initiative

Almost fifteen years ago, Novo Hamburgo held its first women’s soccer championship. Laura Machado was always involved with the matches. However, the championship was held only during that year – the challenges started to appear and the project stopped.
In the meantime, Laura has married, and stopped playing soccer. But sport in her life was not done yet. Around 1990, Laura started a total change in her story. She went to São Paulo where she worked as an observer for big clubs, travelling around Brazil. There, Laura got the experience to put her ideas in practice, but she knew it would be difficult to reintroduce women’s soccer in Novo Hamburgo. Laura started her project – she demanded the creation of a women’s soccer department within the local soccer association and presented her ideas – without success – to the city government.

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Sustainability

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Como sua iniciativa é financiada atualmente ou como você espera que sua iniciativa seja financiada no futuro?

LHFFA is entirely made of volunteers. To continue with the LHFFA web page and promote those sport events we need financial support for transportation and sports material, shirts, coats, sweaters, socks, shorts, football boots, etc.

Financing source

Orçamento anual (até 70 palavras):

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Receitas geradas no ano (até 70 palavras):

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Tamanho de equipe (período integral, meio período, voluntários, etc) (até 70 palavras):

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Qual é o principal obstáculo financeiro e como pretende superá-lo?

Electricity, water, gas and internet bills that are paid by myself.

What are the major challenges with regards to partnerships?

I am a champion on overcoming prejudices without harming anyone, since I prefer to be the one most hurt. Women’s soccer in our country is still crawling, and if we can get an universal supporter with a strong brand, yes we can CHANGE EVERYTHING!

The Story

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Qual é a fase da sua iniciativa?

Projeto em andamento, em implementação .

Qual foi a motivação que o levou a criar/liderar esta inovação? Conte-nos sobre a sua história.

Facing many difficulties with the department, Laura founded LHFFA with help from her three sons and current consort. Soon a partnership was forged with local clubs to promote women’s soccer competitions without costs to participants. They demanded only respect and discipline from all who participated in the competitions and would soon participate in the women’s soccer championship – after so many years of waiting.

Por favor, escreva uma pequena biografia da pessoa que lidera esta idéia inovadora

I am a widow with a pension and also work as a hairdresser, and I use part of my salary to help the women youth. I believe I will be able to promote all the sport events and respect all chronograms. I have time, as all my sons are grown-ups. We will start the events as soon as the financial support arrives.

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Renata WomenWin said: Olá, Laura! I would like to invite you to join the Women Win group at http://sportforchange.changemakers.net/en-us/group/womenwin. ... about this Competition Entry. - 1084 days ago read more >

LauraMachado submitted this idea. - 1088 days ago

Fabiola Odani said: Olá Laura, o projeto é muito inspirador e cativante. Ser uma comentarista é bem difícil, quando se encontra um projeto como este em ... about this Competition Entry. - 1091 days ago read more >
LauraMachado said: Olá , que lindo trabalho da equipe organizadora dessa pagina Julia Forlani Equipe Changemakers Brasil Ashoka Empreendedores ... about this Competition Entry. - 1092 days ago read more >