Bellamy Foundation Development League
- Boys' development
- Conservation
- Health education
- Child soldiers
- Girls' development
- Youth development
- Youth leadership
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Craig Bellamy Foundation
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Since the League was launched, a total of 316 basic community development projects have been implemented in the four regional league centres. These projects are carried out in the areas of environment, peer education and education and care.
Increasted school attendance, strong and early awareness of fairness in society, introduction to community sustainable development and passion for healthy active living.
Sustainable funding.
The league is current funded by the Craig Bellamy Foundation in partnership with UNICEF. This will also be the case for the 2010/11 season as the league is expanded. Long-term the plan is to have a mixture of funding sources through the Craig Bellamy Foundation and for the teams to start to fund themselves by creating local partnerships with sponsors.
Lack of funding.
1001‐10,000
Less than $50
Operating for 1‐5 years
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Yes
Craig Bellamy Foundation, Right to Dream, UNICEF
1‐5 years
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
The operations of the partnership project of Right to Dream (project managers) and Craig Bellamy Foundation (in-country organisation and funding) in collaboration with UNICEF (funders, facilitators and advisors) has been effective in the project implementation. Special thanks must go to the UNICEF team both in the provinces and headquarters in Freetown for the effective monitoring and supervision of the project activities throughout the four regions. Thanks and appreciations also goes to the Right to Dream Team and the In- Country Team for providing their expertise and support, ensuring that the project activities are implemented successful.
1. self-sufficient funding projects
2. continued high standard of organisation and delivery
3. increased awareness of impact of the programme
when Craig Bellamy met Tom Vernon (Right to Dream
In 2007 Welsh International football star Craig Bellamy visited a friend in the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Best known for its “blood diamonds” and nine year violent civil war Craig saw through the devastation, poverty and desperation and saw the potential for a project that could offer hope. Out of this initial hope was born the Craig Bellamy Foundation. A charity founded by Craig to offer the children of Sierra Leone the right to dream. Using the one thing Craig knows and loves, football, the project has been designed to inspire positive personal and social development through the power of sport.
The Foundation now boasts a network of nation-wide football development leagues with 1,600 registered members, aged 10-14. Further leagues for girls and the differently-abled will be implemented later in 2010. Alongside the league and opening in May 2010 is a state of the art football academy designed to offer the best in coaching and education. Underpining the project is a desire to offer hope to all that encounter the Craig Bellamy Foundation and to offer the children of Sierra Leone the opportunity to reach their full potential.In 2007 Welsh International football star Craig Bellamy visited a friend in the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Best known for its “blood diamonds” and nine year violent civil war Craig saw through the devastation, poverty and desperation and saw the potential for a project that could offer hope. Out of this initial hope was born the Craig Bellamy Foundation. A charity founded by Craig to offer the children of Sierra Leone the right to dream. Using the one thing Craig knows and loves, football, the project has been designed to inspire positive personal and social development through the power of sport.
The Foundation now boasts a network of nation-wide football development leagues with 1,600 registered members, aged 10-14. Further leagues for girls and the differently-abled will be implemented later in 2010. Alongside the league and opening in May 2010 is a state of the art football academy designed to offer the best in coaching and education. Underpining the project is a desire to offer hope to all that encounter the Craig Bellamy Foundation and to offer the children of Sierra Leone the opportunity to reach their full potential.
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