Soccer Dreams Without Borders mission is to provide
educational opportunities to impoverished children living on the street,
orphaned, living with life threatening diseases or have parents who are dying of
HIV/AIDS.
Vision
Our vision is to solicit soccer accessories as the entry
point into the lives of African children, identify soccer players as mentors who
collectively with the help of professionals will provide education concerning
good health care and economic opportunities.
Strategy
Soccer may be referred to as futebol or football in many
parts of the world but it is still the same game, played by the same rules and
organized under the international heading of FIFA. Every four years the World
Cup is played and sixteen countries from throughout the world eventually must
qualify to play in the most popular sport. The 2010 World Cup will be played in
South Africa where over five million people are HIV positive and almost 28% of
pregnant women in South Africa are tested HIV positive. South Africa as the host
country will automatically qualify and there will surely be other African
nations as there have been in the past. Soccer Dreams Without Borders plans to
be the link between youth soccer in the USA and the impoverished youth soccer
player in South Africa who is dreaming of playing in a world cup and may be
playing in bare feet, using a ball made of rags and has never been near a field
of grass, only dirt. In effect the USA teams will adopt African teams as sister
and brother clubs. Soccer accessories from the USA will have valuable, life
saving conditions attached however that will focus on the root causes of
poverty. The conditions presented by soccer player mentors and professional
organizations will explain the benefits of health care, prevention of diseases
such as malaria/tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS education, prevention and awareness.
