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Match for Solidarity helps disabled children around the globe
UEFA and the United Nations helped to raise €605,000 for the UEFA Foundation for Children to fund humanitarian and development projects around the world. On 21 April, UEFA and the United Nations...
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Field in a Box: UEFA Foundation for Children Brings Artificial Football Pitch Initiative to Brazil
CONTEXT Konami Holdings Corporation – a Japanese digital entertainment company and a UEFA Champions League sponsor – was willing to work with the UEFA Foundation for Children and take the Field in...
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UEFA’s #EqualGame campaign promotes diversity, inclusion and accessibility in football at the UEFA Champions League final in Kyiv, Ukraine
UEFA's #EqualGame campaign promoting diversity, inclusion and accessibility in football entered the spotlight during finals week in Kyiv. Worldwide attention focussed on the UEFA Champions League...
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Football opens hearts
Friday 25 May 2018 Oleksandr Fomichov aims to use the "power of football" to improve the lives of the community around him. Based in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, he is promoting the need...
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Kia Motors runs ‘Green Light Volunteer Week’ to celebrate founding anniversary
Fortnight of global employee volunteer activities to mark anniversary of Kia ‘Green Light Card’ campaign to encourage road safety awareness among children in South Korea Other Kia plants across...
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Refugee Life Skills and Employment Training Soccer Programme Atlanta
CONTEXT Commonly known as ‘Ellis Island of the South’ or ‘the most diverse square mile in America’, the small southern US town of Clarkston has welcomed 40,000 refugees over a period of more than...
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Winners of 2018 UEFA Foundation for Children Awards Announced
Awards go to 20 European organisations supporting disadvantaged children On 16 May, the Board of Trustees of the UEFA Foundation for Children met in Lyon at the offices of Sport dans la Ville – an...
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Empowering Refugee and Marginalised Children in Lebanon and Jordan
CONTEXT The number of Syrian refugees in Jordan is estimated to be about 1.4 million: 20% live in five camps, 80% in urban areas in northern provinces and around Amman. Two-thirds of all...
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Football for Development after-school programme
CONTEXT Cambodia has a population of just over 15.2 million, more than one-third of whom are below the age of 18 (UNICEF; 2012 data), and 17.7% live below the poverty line (World Bank; 2012 data)....
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Inclusion of children with Disabilities in Bolivia
CONTEXT In the United Nations Development Programme’s most recent Human Development Report, Bolivia was ranked 118th out of 188 countries, making it one of the least developed countries in South...
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#EqualGame stars lineup alongside football legends before Europa League final
UEFA is celebrating the first full season of its #EqualGame campaign, which aims to positively promote inclusion, diversity and accessibility in European football. To mark the occasion, UEFA...
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Dreams made possible for Lyon children at UEFA Europa League final
FedEx Express donates its player escort allocation to French charity Sport dans la Ville The UEFA Foundation for Children and FedEx Express – a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation and the world’s...
