Homeless World Cup Foundation

Mission

The Homeless World Cup uses football to energise people who are homeless to change their own lives. We achieve this with an annual, international football tournament and local grass roots football programmes working with people who are homeless all year round. We aim to be the most reputable organisation in the world using sports for social inclusion, involving one million players in 75 nations by 2012.

Programs

Homeless World Cup: An annual international football tournament uniting national teams of players who are homeless to represent their country and change their lives forever Local Grass Roots Football Programmes: Run in over 60 nations these include street soccer leagues, regional and national soccer championships and trials.

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Help Homeless World Cup change lives in 56 nations	Help Alex's Kenya Homeless World Cup Team	Help Najib's Afghanistan Homeless World Cup Team	Help Craig's USA Homeless World Cup Team
Help Slava's Russia Homeless World Cup Team	Help Damien's Ireland Homeless World Cup Team	100 women from 8 nations at the Homeless World Cup	Help Jesus' Spain Homeless World Cup Team

Personnel Overview

Arkady Tyurin - Executive Director
Arkady has been an illegal citizen in St Petersburg for 11 years due to the political system. In 1997, became a freelancer for the street paper, Put Domoi, and editor in chief in 2000. In 2003 he started the football project and in 2006 the first national tournament united 8 teams to see the media discuss homelessness in Russia for the first time. They won the Homeless World Cup.

Mel Young - President Homeless World Cup Foundation
Young has nearly 15 years experience tackling the global issue of homelessness. Co-Founder of The Big Issue Scotland in 1993 he co-founded the International Network of Street Papers in 1995 of which he is Honorary President. In 2001 he co-created the Homeless World Cup and has since grown the tournament to trigger and unite over 48 national grass roots football programmes

Personnel Statistics

Katherine Byles,
Communications & Media Director
Founded in 2005
Employees: 10
Volunteers: 250

Financial Statistics

Budget (2008): $ 700,000
Budget (2007): $ 200,000
Maximum Budget: $ 140,000
Overhead: 0 %
Other funding sources: Vodafone Group Foundation, Moffat Trust, Private Donations
Religious Affiliation: none