1We - One World Experience for a Better World -

Football playgrounds as a weapon in drug war

Sports project 1We Football Playgrounds Rio de Janeiro

Imagine you were born in a slum in Rio de Janeiro. Your only future perspective is a ‘career’ in the drug world, where it is very likely you will not reach the age of twenty unless you go to school at a young age and you are able to build a better life.

Thousands of young people

This is the story behind the 1We Football Playgrounds. Small playgrounds in the ‘favelas’ as a weapon in the fight against the drug war. Children are often recruited by cartels at an early age. In these professionally companies thousands of youngsters are actively involved with more than 60,000 murders every year as a result. First they are used as lookouts and gradually become full ‘soldados’. Usually there is no turning back. They are often dependent on drugs and have no alternative.

Integration means
1We - One World Experience is setting up a 1We Football Playground in the slums of Gringolandia in cooperation with the Brazilian organization IBISS. As the sport of Brazil football is the way of integration in this country. In addition the children learn to read, to write and to count. The teaching method is developed based on the rules of football.

To realize a 1We Football Playground € 18,800 is required.
So far already € 7,072 has been donated.

Every donation for the kids of Rio is very welcome!
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