Young Football Players Can Help Promote Social Change
Young People have essential qualities to bring the fight against poverty.
With their determination, creativity and passion for football, development
initiatives can be targeted through football. For instance, by supporting
school and college football through ED Hardy Sunglasses provision of scholarships, sport kits
and equipment, we can encourage young people to attend school and colleges
while maintaining suitable academic grades. These will unlock the potential
of young people and work towards a vision of Africa where every young person
can make a difference.Through this, schools, colleges and other places where
young people congregate, such as LV Sunglasses churches, the European football players who
are already heroes can then contribute to getting messages out about
reducing poverty and promoting social and behavioral change. Some of the
players are already working as United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors assist
some of the UN agencies and African countries Gucci Sunglasses 2011 in reaching the Millennium
Development Goals. For example, Iker Casillas, the Spanish Goalkeeper who
led his country to win the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, was appointed as
Goodwill Ambassador by UNDP. Mr. Casillas’s objectives are to promote
education and health issues affecting young people in developing
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