Columbia’s women are heading for the Australian Homeless World Cup
Last updated 11/4/2008 9:42:36 AM
heading for the Australian Homeless World Cup
Homeless women from Columbia have entered December's Homeless World Cup in Australia next month.
The Homeless World Cup announced on Monday (November 3) a partnership with Women Win to bring the life-changing benefits of football to thousands of homeless women and their communities around the world.
The partnership begins with 20,000 euros funding from Women Win for the development of women's grass roots football in Columbia, enabling Team Columbia to make its debut at the global tournament.
In addition, Women Win will also initiates a Challenge Award of 5,000 euros that will be awarded to one of the community organisations participating in the Homeless World Cup in December to help them implement their ideas for sustainable programmes for homeless girls and women in their home country.
As the partnership grows it will also look for opportunity to create social enterprises that contribute to sustainable change for women, girls and their communities.
The Homeless World Cup is an annual international tournament, which provides the opportunity for people who are homeless to change their own lives. The 6th Homeless World Cup takes place in Melbourne from 1-7 December 2008, which will include the first Women's Cup in the tournament's history when eight national women's teams will participate from Australia, Cameroon, Columbia, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Zambia, Liberia and Paraguay.