Proposed Projects

Girls Kick It Chicken (Gweno) House Project

Girls Kick It, Global Youth Partnership for Africa

Girls Kick It aims to provide the loan-funding to build a poultry (gweno) house in the Paicho community, and simultaneously provide the management training necessary to oversee the social enterprise. The plan is for the Girls Kick It team to manage and maintain a poultry house that would provide, for the first time, real economic opportunity for these young girls and women of Paicho. Essentially, through this program, the money generated from the sale of chickens to local hotels, businesses and nearby food markets would permit the team to pay for their team needs such as transportation to tournaments and practices, coach salaries, equipment and refreshments like sugar cane, water and bananas (and not rely on fundraising money from the U.S.) Also, school fees for themselves or their children. Finally, the gweno house (or similar agri-business social enterprises) has the potential to be replicated and thus, enable economic opportunity for other girls and women living in northern Uganda. We would also like to invest in the capacity of our players in staff through further skills courses in management, accounting and business. Girls Kick It hopes to expand income generating programs like our poultry houses and thus, reducing dependency on outside donors, and two, through establishing relationships with local small businesses and markets who are looking to purchase poultry and other local agri-goods. Our organization’s approach moving ahead is to encourage more creative, social enterprise and income-generating projects in Uganda, and collaborate with the foundations and organizations that believe this approach is the future of development.

CoachMe Sports & Arts

CoachMe Sports

CoachMe Sports and Arts Academy looks to establish a positive role in the future of today and tomorrow's youth. By providing an academy for students of both sports and arts and allowing students the best available training in their preferred genre. Providing students with choices of theater, music, visual arts and more as well as providing the academic foundations to allow students to continue on to higher educations and professions with confidence. With an understanding of what hardwork, desire and team work is needed to play a positive role in their communities as well. CoachMe Sports & Arts helps youth train and develop for the future. We use basketball as a self esteem builder as well as to develop team work and self-lessness in our players. We use selected arts as way for students freely express themselves and learn what the world has to offer and how to offer their full abilities for the world to share. We are looking for an opportunity to build a college prep academy for youth in the Round Rock/Austin-metro area. CoachMe Sports & Arts feels with each person there comes an opportunity for success, we want to broaden that opportunity by establishing a place where students and athletes are asked to be role models not only in their community but throughout the world's community.

OAKLAND SCHOOLYARDS INITIATIVE: Fitness Structures

Oakland Schoolyards Initiative

As we have revitalized schoolyards from barren and dangerous places into active, green and healthy spaces, we have failed to develop and build play structures that meet the needs of our schoolchildren. To help reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity, our schools need structures that are physically challenging, safe, beautiful and low cost. Hopefully these can be built by community volunteers and be approved by the District and review agencies. They should work like a Marine Corps Obstacle Course, look like a Henry Moore's sculpture and cost a lot less than Kompan playgrounds. Pilot project designs for 5 to 12 year olds for elementary schools and another configuration for middle schools would be ideal. Construction can occur at one or more of our school sites. Play structures that are endemic to schoolyards look like chutes and ladders built by plumbers to satisfy risk managers not children. They are boring and do not provide for vigorous exercise. Typically, children wait a while to climb a few steps then slide down and repeat. None of the innovative playground designs address the fitness issue. Neither KaBOOM’s formulaic structures nor the community-build groups’ innovations provide strenuous activity that is fun as well as healthful. Girls particularly need upper body exercise that schoolyard games do not provide. We believe that the design talent available through Architecture for Humanity and modest funding can develop and build a prototype fitness structure that can be replicated in all of our renovated schoolyards and in other districts. The epidemic of childhood obesity is a serious problem that needs to be addressed in many ways. We hope that this proposal will succeed for our schoolchildren.

Stadium Project: A Home of their Own

Add Some Color and Simpson University

The ultimate goal of this project is to make baseball more affordable for local youth, make it easier for youth teams to schedule events, and provide teams a safe environment that will give them the opportunity to expand their programs. A critical component of this project is the construction of a full-size baseball field on Simpson University's campus using components from a donated baseball stadium. The field will be home to Add Some Color's youth program, Simpson University athletes, and various community based youth sports organizations. The current inventory of fields in and around the Redding area does not begin to meet immediate or long-term needs for local youth programs. As youth baseball programs struggle to find affordable, safe fields, they do not have the resources to expand their programs. Sadly, the county's only full-size baseball field available without charge is located in a community with high crime and substance abuse rates. Youth who use this and other city fields are regularly exposed to tobacco and alcohol products. With nearly 12 percent of Shasta County youth between the ages of 12-17 already smoking (compared to 7.6 percent in the state of California), more needs to be done to provide these youth with recreational facilities free from tobacco and alcohol use. By building the new stadium on Simpson University's campus, local youth programs, such as Add Some Color, will have a safe, smoke and alcohol-free, well-maintained field on which to practice, play and host tournaments at little to no cost to them. The new field will save youth baseball programs significant field rental costs and allow them to expand their programs, especially to under-served or low-income youth.

From Community Games to empowerment in Kaningo

Community Empowerment Support Organisation (CESO)

Kaningo is in the western area of Freetown with an estimated population of about 10,000 people. 60% of them are youth and 30% of the youth are not attending school nor in any job-training scheme. They resort to gambling, robbery or serve as unskilled labourers. A CESO study of the Kaningo community revealed that they are faced with numerous developmental problems such as education, poverty, recreation, teenage pregnancy, gender-based violence and other reproductive health issues. Notwithstanding these challenges, access to sporting activities and youth friendly services in Kaningo remain a far-fetched dream. This project will be a pilot intervention designed to assess the effectiveness of selected strategies, inextricably combined in order to increase access to and utilisation of educational, recreational and sporting activities in the Kaningo community. CESO is currently organising football and athletics competitions for in and out of school youths in the community and it environs. These activities will bring young people together and will serve as publicity to sensitise the youth to exercise patience in life and bring them together so they can feel responsibility within society. Overall objectives of the project are to promote participation of young people in community development and in the identification, development and management of programmes that affect them. There is also a need to increase young people’s access to comprehensive sporting activities, youth friendly and gender sensitive information in Kaningo

Clubhouse Community Youth Center

Hoops 4 Hope

Hoops for Hope (H4H) fosters development in highly disadvantaged communities across Zimbabwe and South Africa. Generous donations of sneakers, cleats, uniforms and balls from around the United States and Canada arrive in 20 foot and 40 foot shipping containers, crossing vast oceans and retiring in our region. Creating H4H Clubhouse Community Youth Centers from these retired shipping containers will allow us to better provide our services by means of community proximity and identity for the youth we support. A youth center will be filled with computers, books, balls, MVP peer education coaches and serve their local community with Hoops 4 Hope, Soccer 4 Hope and Chess 4 Hope programs.

Western Beach Surfing [Paradise] Kiosk

ArchiNool

At a border zone of Tel Aviv and Yaffa, on the edge of chaos, the Western beach, arguably the city's most beautiful stretch of Mediterranean, is definitely its most surfing active. Novices and legends, Jewish and Arab, young and not at all - surfers of all flavors from near by as well as from far away. Yet, unlike other surfing spots (Hilton beach and Dolfinarium) upper north (in the Tel Aviv, more looked after part of the city), for the surfers of the Western beach no facilities exist (fresh water, showers, bathrooms, hang-out space, a place to store ‘the gear’ instead of carrying it in and out through heavy traffic). The Western beach Surfing [Paradise] kiosk is proposed in order to accommodate for these needs as well as to become a place for interaction, celebration, and exchange - a community Hub cum club for the surfers and people of the Western beach. A solar powered, environmentally friendly, perhaps prefab and definitely lightweight structure, gently seated on the beach. Main elements include: - storage facility for 80 ‘gears’ (boards, suits etc’). - beach shower (water recycled). - bathrooms and a changing room. - kiosk serving wax, snacks and drinks. - deck with seating. The proposed design process is open and participatory, and is based on design workshops with local surfers of all flavor. An open middle eastern design competition to select a project architect to lead this participatory design process is also favorably considered.

A Haven for Orphaned Teenage Girls in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Children's Heaven

The project objective is to construct a multi-purpose facility for Children’s Heaven, an organization that provides essential services for orphaned teenage girls in Ethiopia. Children’s Heaven currently serves more than seventy-five girls who live in the slums of Ethiopia’s capitol city, Addis Ababa, with one hundred fifty girls on the waiting list. The organization is limited in its ability to help even more girls by a lack of physical facilities and space for the girls to meet and conduct their activities. A permanent multi-purpose facility would allow Children’s Heaven to serve many more girls in a way that will change their lives forever. Ethiopia is a country about twice the size of the state of Texas, with a population of over seventy-seven million people. The average life expectancy is 42 years, and the average annual income per adult is $130 U.S. per year. Ethiopia is plagued by famine and drought, and HIV/AIDS has taken a tremendous toll there. In the capitol city of Addis Ababa, where Children’s Heaven is located, an estimated 8.8% of adults have HIV/AIDS. Teenage girls—orphaned by HIV/AIDS, poverty or other illness---fend for themselves to survive, with large numbers of them turning to begging or prostitution, which usually results in an early death due to diseases like AIDS. But for Children’s Heaven, there is no “safety net,” and there is little hope, for these over-looked young girls who live in abject poverty in the slums of Addis Ababa and who find themselves in dire and hopeless situations due to the death of one or both parents. In spite of the grim statistics, Ethiopia is a beautiful place, and the girls that Children’s Heaven serves are beautiful young women. They are girls who deserve the chance to hope for good and productive lives.

Teach a Child to Fish

Mahogany Youth Corporation

Over 15-weeks youth will participate in a three-hour session including ten in the classroom and five outdoor hands-on fishing experiences. Sessions utilize the Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs (HOFNOD) curriculum. HOFNOD is an award-winning, nationally recognized program by the Future Fisherman Foundation, the educational arm of the American Sportsfishing Association. HOFNOD uses angling skill development as a gateway to teach the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and how to deal with the challenges facing them in their young lives. Certified instructors deliver the life skills modules using a program guide and workbook. The guide comprises 10 easy-to-uses activities/modules including: Introduction to HOFNOD, Making Wise Choices about Illegal Drugs, Feeling Good About Yourself, Getting to Where You're Going, How You Are Unique, The Importance of Families, Choices & Feelings, It's OK to ask for Help, Standing Up For What You Believe, and Putting Life Into Perspective: Dreams and Goals. The workbook is supplemented with review sheets, puzzles, journal pages, photo pages, fishing logs and a program guide. In addition classroom instruction includes teaching fish biology, conservation and angling skills. The angling skills have the youth outside practicing their casting skills. We use fishing to address: positive alternatives to drug use, motivation, communication, self-esteem building, responsibility, how to overcome peer pressure, good problem-solving, decision making skills, and improved family interaction. Reasons youth begin using alcohol or other drugs or participate in risking behaviors include: boredom, lack of motivation, poor social and communication skills, low literacy and comprehension skills, low self-esteem and peer pressure. Just because a youngster fishes does not guarantee that he or she will remain drug free. However, youth who possess these life skills and can communicate with their parent or an adult are less likely to turn to drugs. Each participant receives a rod and reel to keep.

Bweyogerere Youth Sports and Environment Resource Centre

Network for Integrated Community-based Research and Development

The proposed project will consist of a sports play ground for football, netball, basket ball and lawn tennis on the one hand and a waste recycling resource centre (which will educate residents on climate change and appropriate waste management practices) to serve as a collection, sorting and transfer centre for dry waste. Adjacent to the centre will be a mini landfill for handling wet wastes and an incenerator for ultimate disposal of toxic wastes and chemicals generated in the area. Behind this facility will be a recreational facility built out of local materials alongside a manmade lake. At the moment, the community of the township dump thier waste on the banks of the lake whereas there is collection of birds leaving in the trees and youths use the valley leading into the lake to practice their songs. The place is bushy and probably inhabited by snakes. The waste build-up on the banks of the lake is burnt regularly but there are reports of people that have drowned here while trying to scavenge on the wastes for a living.

S.P.I.C.E . CENTRE

KIAMBU CENTRAL COLLEGE

sport promoting interaction cooperation education-s.p.i.c.e is the brainchild of social innovator youth sportsman mentor and teacher working with a community college in kiambu Kenya a semi-urban rural area outskirts of Nairobi city.The project aims to integrate sports in young people life's and help them to see its multiple benefits.More so the mutual benefits of the wider society of using sports as away of cooperation to over come challenges and helping the less fortunate members in the society.The project is at its initial stage.The innovators idea is to create a one call sports center that can also develop outreach sports programs for young people in and out of school Spice center is a small complex with small sports grounds,sports computers lab,courts for training different games,sports archive,gym center and sports studio,donation house store for the less fortunate young people.The innovator recognizes the gender disparity in games participation will encourage more girls and women participation.The wider vision of the project is to help an individual realize their full potential in their sporting talents.

Corredores do Parque Santo Dias

Associação de Moradores da Cohab Adventista 1

The park Santo Dias runner's, are a group of lovers of the sport that allows poor people to access the world of sports through the free initiative of professional runner Marineide Santos Silva. Our idea is to build a gym for sports in the borough of Capão Redondo, São Paulo City, Brazil. Our group has a plot of 2200 m2, which is now a field of futbol. We need resources to develop the project and build a gym that can be closed to perform the activities of futsal, volley, basketball, training for runners, Gymnastics, handball, and activities for the community.

B.R.E.A.K.I.N. (Bringing Real Education to At-risk Kids in Impoverished Neighborhoods)

Tiny Toones Cambodia

Just a year after Tiny Toones moved into its current main facility located in the Russian Market district of Phnom Penh, the classes are already filled beyond capacity with students learning breakdancing, rapping, beatboxing, and DJ'ing. Students stand shoulder to shoulder waiting their turn to show off their best dance moves or record their music. To have a large enough space to host breakdancing competitions, the staff and children must go to public parks to dance but are often harassed by local police who demand bribes. The organization is in great need of a larger home so that it can provide a safe environment for all of its students to dance, play, and study. Tiny Toones envisions building a new energy efficient community center with the following amenities: dance studios for conducting rehearsals; an outdoor stage for hosting performances; a naturally lit and ventilated gymnastics facility for practicing acrobatics; an indoor basketball court for playing indoor games as well as hosting dance competitions; a large, open grass field for playing outdoor sports such as soccer. The recording studio, video lab, and creative arts studio would be equipped with state-of-the-art technologies powered by solar panels. Additional classrooms would be added and the existing library expanded. A 24/7 safehouse for domestically abused children would be constructed because a majority of the children come from broken homes, and oftentimes Tiny Toones is the only place they feel safe coming to during a crisis. Rain water would be captured and stored for flushing toilets, showering in the dorm bathrooms, and watering the grass fields.

Guerreiras do Sul - "Fighting for life quality and well-being of women"

Guerreiras do Sul - Fight RS

Besides from the Associates, managers and interested people, the association aims raising awareness among female population on the regular practice of physical activities which benefits all women involved on the campaign for prevention of diseases through the practice of physical activities.Promoting sportive activities to children and women that stimulate social responsibility, team work, discipline, self-confidence and self-steam through events and raising awareness campaigns. "Worriers from the South " – Fighting for life quality and well-being of women – Fight for this idea. Optimizing awareness of female population on strategies to prevent diseases and the importance of physical activities.Achieving partnerships and contracts with private companies, governmental institutions and philanthropic entities aiming making possible accomplishing the goals of the Association.

Dragon Valley Sports Complex

Arzu, Inc.

Every day in war-torn Afghanistan, imagination and play lose out to the hardships of life at a subsistence level. The complete lack of infrastructure keeps people of all ages from participating in energizing sports like soccer, badminton and volleyball. Arzu’s Dragon Valley Sports Complex is a new facility that will change lives by providing opportunities for exercise, fun, education and socializing through physical activity to approximately 10,000 men, women and children in the remote region of Bamyan, Afghanistan. “Membership” will be extended to the entire village, with designated times established for each gender in keeping with local mores. Men, women and children will enjoy the same opportunity for time out to laugh, stretch and take an inspired break from herding, gathering firewood, toting water from the river and their other many unyielding responsibilities. In Dragon Valley, Arzu’s two other central infrastructure projects are currently underway--the Women’s Community Center is under construction and designs are being drawn for a Community Garden. These bright spots, in the otherwise monochromatic landscape, are within walking distance to the site of the proposed Sports Complex, whose walled compound will provide a safe place for teams to practice on outdoor playing fields; an exercise room for Tai Chi, yoga, stretching, prenatal classes and seminars on nutrition and hygiene; and a game room with ping pong tables. The Complex will offer safe, clean latrines, considered to be a luxury in this desolate area and access to clean, filtered drinking water. The total cost to design and build this facility, furnish the equipment and initiate programs is $100,000.

Give Football a Chance

Oltalom Sport Association (OSA)

Our project is to build a multipurpose mini soccer field court that will permit us to have practices on a regular basis 6 days a week, also giving the residents from this part of the city an adequate place to practice sports for free. The needs of the socially disadvantaged people and minorities have always been left behind in modern market economies and Hungary is not an exception. Hungary is one of the European countries that are suffering the most from the recent economical crisis. As a result many people have lost their jobs, the political instability is growing and as a result the nationalistic movements are getting stronger in the country. This has provoked a crisis and more xenophobic attacks and incidents against minorities, immigrants and refugees are common. Now more than ever is important to find space and activities to develop common understanding and to integrate into Hungarian society all the social groups that have been segregated. Oltalom Sport Association is aware of the actual social situation in Hungary and Europe, and has developed football and sport programs that address this actual social unrest in Hungary. Right now we have to rent facilities or use public spaces during the whole year, in the winter it is a problem because we have to rent a closed covered facility for practices. This will help us to have a permanent place for our practices, with the construction of this facility we will fulfill our goal to be able to have daily practices and in this way integrate even more people in our initiative and also providing a benefit to the surrounding community This would allow us to make a change in the generations to come, and to build a better integrated European society

Homestead Karting Track Support Facilities

Professional Karting school

This project consists in providing support facilities to the existing Karting track at Homestead Karting: restrooms, small cafeteria and covered seating/viewing facility with audiovisual support for races and training for kids, teenagers and adults. Karting is the starting step in the sport of Racing, but Racing is the second most popular sport worldwide. South Florida has limited facilities for the practice of karting, and Miami as the gateway of the Americas and Europe, has Homestead Karting as only one track adjacent and it lacks of any support facilities. Therefore, this project is of extreme importance and urgency in order to up to the standards of other national and international Karting racing track facilities.

" Slumdog Basketball" Aiding in the psycho- rehabilitation of slum dwelling youth in Mumbai thru sports!

JDBASKETBALL

Slums are the reality of the Mumbai landscape. 18 million people (40% of Mumbai’s population) live in 3.5% of the area. Little to no recreation exists for the 1 million+ people (Wiki) residing in the slums of Dhavari. In addition, no internet access exists here. Ramon Magsaysay Awaad (Asia's eqivalent of Nobel prize) winner, Jockin Arputham and JD Walsh (JDBASKETBALL) are partnering in Slumdog basketball project to service slum needs and to provide recreation for youth living in the Dharavi slums (Asia’s largest). Land has been earmarked to build four full-court basketball courts and a space for computer training. 'Slumdog Basketball' will provide daily coaching and computer learning instruction for community youth to fill two voids, recreation and education. As of now, neither a recreation space nor computer education space exist for the five thousand youth we expect to service each year. This program will create dynamic social change and life long learning by arranging daily sports and life training for at-risk slum dwelling children. 'Slumdog Basketball' will raise awareness and global attention to the lack of sports recreation and education in this community; which we believe will aid in evolution of local sport culture and promote healthy lifestyles. We expect the computer training courses to educate and provide job skills. To create social change and sustainability Slumdog Basketball' program will be the foundation and template for an ongoing trust to continue the good works for generations to come. We are in discussion with major corporate entity and expect to co-partner.

Construction of “GAMECHANGERS” Community Center for participants of “Goals for a Better Life” program in Medellin, Colombia.

Colombianitos

COLOMBIANITOS wants to raise funds to build a Community Center.“GAMECHANGERS” Community Center, will help provide the community that benefits from the “Goals for a Better Life” program in Medellin, a series of new activities that will strengthen the work being done with boys, girls and youngsters. With financing from GAMECHANGERS, COLOMBIANITOS will build the Community Center where the following activities, among others, will take place – Support social-psychological needs of children and families from the whole community, Provide sports and recreational activities such as music and dances classes and computer labs to give other peace alternatives to the children who participate in the program,Workshops with children, youngsters and parents will be performed to emphasis in the values and social work done through the power of soccer,There will also be space to do books and online consultations. Children and youngsters will receive school reinforcement to improve their school performance,All the administrative tasks linked to the development of the program will take place here, and there will be space to store sports and music equipment for the development of the programs. COLOMBIANITOS is convinced that building of the “GAMECHANGERS” Community Center will improve the quality of its services to the community and it will drive the attention of a higher number of children and youngsters to participate in the “Goals for a Better Life” Program. Currently "Goals for a Better Life" benefits 500 boys and girls from this underprivildge area in Colombia. Through the “GAMECHANGERS” Community Center COLOMBIANITOS will continue to accomplish its goals of inviting children to education, keep them away from the dangers in the streets and help them have Better Lives.

PROJECT ALCATRAZ

Santa Teresa Foundation

Is an initiative of the Santa Teresa Foundation that recruits gang members in the Revenga County, in Aragua, Venezuela. The name comes from the famous Alcatraz prison in California, but with the difference that in this case the worst prison is themselves and the biggest challenge is to escape from themselves. Their own future depends on each participant, we only give them their "last" opportunity. For three months they participate in a program that includes intensive labor, integral education in values, work-studies, rugby training, psychological assistance and community service. The objective of reinserting these gangs to society is to solve two of the most severe problems affecting the community: delinquency and unemployment. Since its inception in 2003, our mission with Proyecto Alcatraz - www.proyectoalcatraz.org - is to peacefully eradicate crime and transform violent leadership of youth offenders into virtuous leadership. We recruit gangs – not gang members, rehabilitate them and after a two year program, reinsert them into society. As we advance in the recruitment of gangs and as they understand the philosophy of “Violence breeds violence and Trust stimulates Trust”, we bring these gangs together and oblige them to make peace, hence bringing the crime rate down. Through sport, specifically Rugby, our gang members have been able to leave their guns behind. To enter the field to play against each other is the best way to canalize their energy, aggressiveness and strength through an organized system of rules, with clear objectives and discipline. Currently, Proyecto Alcatraz has two rugby teams, one for young adults and the other for children. The first has participated in both national and international tournaments. In addition, the interest for this sport has spread in the community: 290 girls and boys attending the Juan Uslar Elementary School began to play rugby in 2007-2008. Origin: It began in 2003 as a response to the armed attack of one of the company’s security guards. Three young members of “La Placita” gang, mugged a Ron Santa Teresa’s security guard, stripping him of his firearm and radio. As a result of this situation, we had the muggers arrested. Ron Santa Teresa offered the muggers two options: either 1) to be incarcerated; or 2) to compensate the company by clearing a fire control path in the Hacienda hills, with no remuneration, within three months. After a short negotiation, both parties choose the second option. Several days later, the young men asked for the inclusion of the rest of the gang in the project. This first gang consisted of 22 youths. After realizing we had become their enemies enemy, we decided we had to recruit their arch-enemy gang. After a few months we were able to recruit the Cementerio Gang – a much more dangerous gang. After two months we decided we would put them all in a room and have them end their 10 year war. This second gang consisted of 34 members. To date, five other gangs have joined the Project, resulting in a dramatic decline in crime. Before entering the Project, all potential candidates meet and address four issues: 1) Purpose of taking part of Proyecto Alcatraz; 2) Commitment to the other members during the following three months; 3) Personal vision within a-five-year period; and 4) What Crimes have you committed.

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