Tax Deduction Statement Is Available.
Soccer for Life is a non profit 501-(3) C organization designed to enable all the children of the Western Hemisphere to have the opportunity to play soccer, the beautiful game. Soccer for Life has received a determination of tax exemption from Federal Income taxes . All contributions to Soccer For Life, Inc., are deductible under section 170 of the Code. That means that donations of cash as well as equipment, used soccer gear, vehicles, etc., receive a tax deduction from IRS. Any donation will be valued and you will receive a statement from Soccer for Life, Inc., that you can use to deduct from your income tax. We are classified as a public charity under 509 (a) (2) of the IRS code. We function under the laws of the State of Arizona and carry an Internal Revenue Service "Recognition of Exemption", No. 17053296009004
Collect 500 Pairs Of Sneakers , Support Youth Environmental Entrepreneurship, Participate In Project Athletic Shoes, and Build A Village
THE HONDURAS YOUTH SOCCER PROJECT
More information on the Soccer Donation Project is available to you from donateboots@soccermastery.org . Our Soccer Donation web site is http://www.satglobal.com/donate_boots.htm. Want To Know More About The Honduras Youth Soccer Project?
Send Your Donations (athletic shoes, balls, cleats, uniforms, t-shirts, shorts, warmup clothes, balls, goalkeepers gear, medals, trophies, first aid equipment, referee gear, goals, nets) to:
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Soccer For Life, Inc. C/O Robert O' Bryant 1060 NW 85th Street Miami, FL 33150 (Always email your UPS or Postal Service Tracking Code To Us So We Can Trace Lost Packages)donateboots@soccermastery.org |
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Honduras Youth Soccer Project
Photos of 2004 Torneo Internacional Intibucana in La Esperanza With First African Team Playing In Honduras
WHO WE ARE:
Soccer For Life is a 501 (C) 3, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world’s most popular sport available to all the children of the Western Hemisphere. We need old soccer balls, shin guards, old soccer shirts and shorts, repair them, hold fund-raisers and develop training and coaching for Honduran poor children.
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Scenes of Youth Soccer in Intibuca - Kids Playing In A Soccer Tournament Using Soccer Gear Donate By US Coaches, Teams and Youth (CLICK HERE If You Want To Donate Used Gear)The Liga Menor de Futbol Intibucana "Soccer For Life Is Seeking The Donation Of A Used Bus For The Liga Menor In Honduras. Soccer For Life Has Received Public Charity Designation By The IRS. Tax Deduction Statement Is Available. ***" |
WHAT WE DO:
In Honduras -
Soccer for Life supports the Liga Menor de Futbol Intibucana in working with the youth of the department of Intibuca. The Department of Intibuca is the state in Honduras where the Lenca Indians live and work.
We also offer mountain concursos where young people compete for donated soccer balls, soccer cleats, shin guards, uniforms, soccer socks, and shorts.
How We Share Your Cup Of Hope With The Children Of Honduras
A. Organize a day for a concurso where we will bring additional soccer shirts, balls, shinguards for a competition of all the kids: This will enable children who are not on the team that the uniforms are donated for to participate. It also permits girls to enter and win balls and other items. Through the concursos we teach healthy competition, working together, coordination. Here are the components of a Donation Concurso:
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Introduction and prayer |
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Single person sack race |
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Two persons in one sack race |
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Potato race |
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Speed race |
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Awarding Prizes For the Races |
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Soccer Cleats For The Most Cooperative Athlete |
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Soccer Uniform Donation |
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A soccer game |
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Awards Ceremony - medals and trophy |
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Food after the event |
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Land clearing |
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Tree planting |
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Art program to commemorate Concurso |
To see photos of each of these activities go to http://www.satglobal.com/donation_concurso.htm
Here is a little information on same part sof the concursos:
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Individual Sack Race - The Race Of Personal Coordination |
The individual sack race tests the person's coordination and personal control of their body. The winners usually do not start off running as fast as they can. If they have experience they know how to do it right. Just the right speed, steps short enough to fit inside the sack and timing. Those who fall try to go too fast, take too long steps and do not know where their body parts are. They cannot coordinate running at a certain speed, with steps of a certain distance. The ones who win often are not the fastest, but the most careful or better thinkers.
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Two Person Sack Race - The Race of Cooperation and Teamwork |
The Two person sack race requires two people to be in absolute harmony and cooperate totally. They must work together and not try to outrun or outshine their partner.
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Potato Race - The Race Of Hand, Eye and Body Coordination
In this race the person must control his body movements at the same time they move forward. It requires constant thinking and the making of minute calculations over and over again. |
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The Speed Race - The Race Of Athleticism |
This is a race that tests the athletic ability of a young person. Those who are in condition usually win these races. Most of the kids already know who is likely to win this race. It requires speed, stamina and dedication to win this race.
B. Prepare a small plot of land for use in planting trees and/or other plants that I want your group to grow—this is the environmental part of Soccer For Life’s Mission
C. Care for the plot and the plants
D. Collect ornamental plants from the forest and or your yards (ask your mom’s permission first). These will be planted around the plot to beautify it.
These youth need to know they must do something in exchange for what they get
in life. Because they are now actively involved as well, when both parties
participate it is a complete transaction. That makes it a win win proposition
that builds self esteem
because these youth know they have something to give.
Find out how you can sponsor a Concurso.
Volunteers Are Needed To Run Concursos In Mountain Villages Of Honduras
How We Work In Honduras - Dr. Carol Cross serves as the volunteer Director of Development of the Liga Menor. She is collecting soccer balls, uniforms, shin guards, soccer cleats, and supplies such as balls and net to be shipped to Honduras for the use of the league.
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 Children Making Soccer Balls From Plastic Bags |
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The Liga Menor is a volunteer youth soccer organization in a state where the average income in $35 per month.
The Liga Menor de Futbol Intiibucano is the FENAFUTH officially designed organization for youth sports in the Departmento of Intibuca. That means that all play sanctioned by FENAFUTH in Intibuca is controlled by The Liga Menor. Thus all play between teams, as well as between communities and especially with other FENAFUTH approved Liga is controlled by the Liga Menor. The Liga Menor is made up of the coaches who have teams in the Liga. The Coaches meet each Tuesday night to discuss problems in games, officiating, financial issues, team and player conduct, as well as scheduling each week games in whatever fields are available. At these meetings, you will see coaches who are Latino, Eramani Indians, Lenca Indians, Mayan Indians and Americans (usually with the Peace Corps).
After her attendance at the campeonata, Dr. Cross was invited to the meeting of the Liga Menor on Tuesday night. On Tuesday night the president of the Liga Menor picked her up at her home. The meeting was held in his clinic. Each of the coaches present introduced themselves to her. The following members of the Liga Menor and coaches were present.
After the usual business, Dr. Cross was invited to discuss her program for working with youth through soccer. They suggested that since they were already organized under FENAFUTH, working with them would be the easiest way for her to achieve her goals of helping the youth of Intibuca to develop soccer skills. Doctor Cross gave them 20 yards of yellow jersey fabrics for making practice shirts. In addition, she showed them one of the sample soccer uniforms she had brought and gave them five books on coaching youth soccer. They were in English, but they said they would get them translated. They stated that there had been no training for coaches, they knew nothing about how to teach youth. I told them about my plans for soccer clinics. They asked, "What is a soccer clinic?". They admitted they had never been trained in any way.
They agreed that they would work together and she would help them get some of the resources they needed. They then invited her to meet with the Comite which is the guiding council of the Liga Menor.
After several meetings with the League, Dr. Cross was invited to meet with the Comite of the Liga Menor. She discussed ways that the Liga Menor can be used to help offer soccer programs to 2000 boys in Intibuca as well as developing programs for girls. Some of the ways Dr. Cross suggested she would help including the donation of uniforms, balls, soccer shoes, goals. nets, as well as technical assistance such as volunteer coaches, video tapes, Spanish language youth soccer coaching books.
Other resources will include internship programs as well as volunteer work groups such as church work groups. She then gave a questionnaire to the Comite to complete on the needs of the organization.
The Liga Menor was formed for players under 18 years in these categories:
| Pluma 8 year to 10 |
| Pre Mosquito 10 years to 12 years old |
| Mosquito from 12 years old and 14 years old |
| Infantil from 14 years old to 16 years old |
| Juvenil 16 year to 18 years old |
At this time, due to lack of resources, training, coaches and soccer fields, the Liga Menor only has three groups - premosquito, mosquito and infantil. And there is NO program for girls.
Not only does Dr. Cross take these soccer items to share with the Liga Menor, she is also seeking coaching materials and books in Spanish.
HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED. You can collect used soccer uniforms, balls, nets, cleats and shoes for sending to Honduras and send them to Dr. Carol Cross
Here's how to ship used soccer gear to Honduras.
Please include a check for US$50 for shipping each box to Honduras by boat.
PH 504-783-2293 or 504-783-0199 http://www.satglobal.com/sfll.htm donateboots@soccermastery.org
 Soccer For Life Has A New North American
Director To Head The Soccer Gear Donation Project,
Chris Watkins. He is a home schooled student who has just
finished a year in Honduras as an Intibuca Soccer
Volunteer. Chris first visited
Intibuca when he was six
years old. Chris is a soccer referee, and specializes in Goal Keeper
training. Chris is considered a "geek or techie' and is called the
"Gentle Giant" because he is over 6 feet tall at 16 years old and also
because of his gentle style of coaching of young players. Chris is an
avid gamer, operates through his own website the
MOTILES Gaming nexus under the name
of SLIENT Deathbringrr. His goal in life is
to be a video game developer. In the summer of 2007 Chris will be
offering goal keeping clinics in Florida .
He has learned a lot in Honduras, playing both with teams and in the
streets, including what is called the
Honduran Way of Soccer. He is helping to develop the
Honduran Soccer Mastery program and will be
coaching at the Soccer for Life summer
soccer camps in the summer of 2007. In addition to all
the above, Chris is goalkeeping coach at both the
COPA HONDUAFRIC in March 2007 and the
AfroCarib Cup in November 2007 in Honduras. He will be interested
in communicating by email with gamers in the Far Cry world, Battlefield 2 world and the Guild
Wars world. He will be accepting your soccer gear donations at Chris
Watkins,
Soccer for
Life, Inc. Barrio Lempira, Frente ADEL, Contiguo COMIXCIL, Intibuca, Intibuca, Honduras, 011-504-783-0199 or 011-504-783-2293.
Email
him at
Slient-deathbringrr@hotmail.com . |
Soccer for Life, Inc., is an Arizona not for profit organization dedicated to youth empowerment, youth involvement and youth sports for personal development. In support of this mission, Dr. Carol Cross, Founder and International Director of Soccer for Life invites you to participate in Soccer Action For A Green World, the environmental soccer program. Soccer Action for a Green World creates confluence between youth in developed countries including the USA, Canada, European countries, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and youth in developing countries. Confluence or moving together alongside is one of the most pressing needs of the 21st century. Young people growing up today are going decide if it is war or peace. They will decide to create friendships with those from other cultures or to act like enemies. In addition, they are going to decide if our world will be green or brown, hot or normal. Through Soccer Action For A Green World, our youth can build friendships, create new ideas, develop projects to fight global warming and change the world into a better place. It is our feeling that everyone is seeking community, structure, meaning an a Superordinate Goal. We consider these the requisite for a life lived for sharing and receiving alike, supporting and being supporting, offering comfort and being comforted. We call our "Personal Contribution To Life". Soccer for Life is seeking your help to develop the Intibuca Youth Soccer Center where intend to create the Soccer Action For A Green World Ecolodge for sponsors, donors and patrons of Soccer For Life can come and relax and regenerate. We are putting together a volunteer program, fund raising kits and all the support you need to make through Personal Contribution to Life. Dr. Carol Cross, Directora Honduras Youth Soccer Project Directora De Desarrollo - Liga Menor de Fútbol Intibucana Barrio Lempira de Intibuca, Frente ADEL Casa Amarilla, Contiguo a la cooperativa mixta de COMIXCIL Intibuca, Intibuca, Honduras donateboots@soccermastery.org http://www.satglobal.com/sfll.htmFOR DONATING SOCCER GEAR
FOR DONATING FUNDS THROUGH PAYPAL
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How to Prepare Your DonationsYour donations will be shipped to Honduras in the boxes you send. Please send in sturdy boxes no larger than 22 x 22 x 22 to:
The boxes should be no bigger than 22"x22"x22". Place items inside plastic garbage bags and close them before putting the soccer gear in the boxes. The boxes will be shipped by boat and this ensures they do not get wet. The boxes should be labeled with two labels: From Dr. Carol Cross Soccer for Life, Inc. 5102 N. 60th Drive Glendale, AZ 85301 To
011-504-783-0199 or 011-504-783-2293 The donated items must be itemized on the Donation Invoice Sheet. A copy must be placed in each box as well as a separate copy must be sent to Dr. Cross. Make sure when you send her the envelope of the donation sheets, you tell her it is for the Soccer for Life Donation project.
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YOU ARE THE KEY TO MAKING THIS HAPPEN. TO DONATE:
