Help Damien's Ireland Homeless World Cup Team

Summary

We provide 450 homeless people with football training, coaching, training and qualification as referees and the support they need to come off drugs and alcohol, find jobs, homes, and get an education.

How You Can Help

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	$10 - provides a football to kick off football training for Ireland's homeless population
	$20 - provides a football kit (game uniform) for one homeless person to join Ireland's training and trials
	$50 - provides a month's travel for one homeless person to get to and from football training
	$100 - provides food and drink for homeless players for one week of training sessions
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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

We address homelessness and drug dependency in Dublin, Ireland providing football training, coaching, referee qualifications and support to come off drugs, alcohol, move into homes, education, repair relationships and improve their lives.

Activities

We run 3 football training sessions per week plus the opportunity to take coaching and referee courses. A national football championship involves 35 teams and 450 players with the chance to represent Ireland at the Homeless World Cup.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $85
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $24,915
Total Funding Goal: $25,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

In 2008 we plan to set up regular Street Leagues in two more cities in Ireland plus two all Ireland football tournaments to involve 1000 players per year in football coaching, training and support to come off drugs and alcohol, get jobs, homes.

Project Message

Everything is left on the sideline as soon as you walk on that pitch. Getting to play for your country, flying your flag, it’s a dream come true. My mum is going to be so proud.
- Damien, 23, Beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Sean Kavanagh,
Administration and Coordination
30 Gardiner Place
Dublin,
Ireland
00353018735137
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Homeless World Cup Foundation
51 Timber Bush
Edinburgh, . EH6 6QH
United Kingdom
+44 (0)131 561 1796
http://www.homelessworldcup.org

Learn more about Homeless World Cup Foundation and the project team.

Homeless World Cup Foundation's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Ireland and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Ireland, read the Human Development Report on Ireland or the Wikipedia entry for Ireland.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 09, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 03, 2008.

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