With their determination, creativity and

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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