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AMANDLA EduFootball e.V.

AMANDLA EDUFOOTBALL E.V. is an inter­na­tio­nal, cha­ri­ta­ble orga­ni­sa­ti­on based in South Africa and Germany. AMANDLA’s goal is to help young peop­le to deve­lop their full poten­ti­al and to rea­li­se their dreams for the future.

In order to rea­li­se this, AMANDLA EduFootball e.V. ensu­res more equal oppor­tu­ni­ty and esta­blis­hes safe and personality-supporting Safe-Hubs.

The power of foot­ball com­bi­ned with holi­s­tic edu­ca­ti­on ser­ves as the basis to empower young peop­le and to chan­ge their lives. AMANDLA has alre­a­dy recei­ved sever­al awards for its demons­tra­b­ly effec­tive pro­jects.

Additional infor­ma­ti­on on AMANDLA EduFootball is avail­able at: http://www.edufootball.org

The co-operation

Description of the cooperation

The goal of the long-term coope­ra­ti­on is the joint deve­lop­ment of a coa­ching pro­gram­me and the con­struc­tion of Safe-Hubs in soci­al hot spots world­wi­de. Programme deve­lop­ment has alre­a­dy been suc­cess­ful­ly com­ple­ted. The joint coa­ching pro­gram­me is alre­a­dy used in prac­tice and pro­vi­des trai­ning for up to 4,000 child­ren and young peop­le weekly. It pro­mo­tes the com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on of a gene­ral value sys­tem and soci­al skills, and the holi­s­tic trai­ning of coa­ches.

The effect of the ‘Go for it!’ coa­ching pro­gram­me is regu­lar­ly eva­lua­ted and the pro­gram­me is con­ti­nu­al­ly deve­lo­ped. The suc­cess of the two Safe-Hubs in Cape Town is alre­a­dy clear­ly visi­ble: This is high­ligh­ted in the offi­ci­al sta­ti­s­tics of South African poli­ce and the eva­lua­ti­on reports of Cape Town’s University of Western Cape:

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less vio­len­ce and cri­me in the imme­dia­te vicini­ty of the Safe-Hubs
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impro­ved school per­for­man­ce by pro­gram­me par­ti­ci­pants

After suc­cess­ful­ly using the coa­ching pro­gram­me in the two Safe-Hubs in Cape Town, the coope­ra­ti­on part­ners intend to esta­blish addi­tio­nal Safe-Hubs in soci­al hot spots world­wi­de.