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FutbolNet at the Complex da Maré in Rio de Janeiro is encouraging girls to play the game and get away from the idea that it's a boys-only thing
FutbolNet in Rio
Complex da Maré is one of the poorest districts of Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 150,000 people and made up of sixteen favelas. The Foundation implements FutbolNet among children aged between 6 and 16 years on the grounds of the Olympic Village of that region in collaboration with, among others, the MAPFRE Foundation.
The project is held twice a week at sessions where the children work on values while playing football, and the discussions before and after the games form a fundamental part of the exercise.
Eight and nine year old Amanda Matías and María Victoria Sánchez change their ballet shoes for football boots every day. They are both beneficiaries of the FutbolNet project being run by the FC Barcelona Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. They live in Complex da Maré and believe that playing football will also help them with their ballet skills – while it also presses home such values as respect, teamwork and humility, which are so universal that they can be applied as much to sport as they can do dance or so many other aspects of life.
Leilane Vieira, María Victoria's mother, is a primary school teacher and explains that the presence of both girls and boys on the field is helping to dispel the preconception of football is just for boys and that girls should stick to ballet. "FutbolNet generates interaction and breaks down paradigms and prejudice" she says. The boys are nicer to them, they respect them, they look after them and invite them to join their games. Elsewhere, they don't even let them play."
The FC Barcelona Foundation has been implementing FutbolNet in Rio since 2012, the idea being to generate social cohesion among young people, fostering the values that can be derived from sport and eradicating violence. Jacy Matías, Amanda's mother, adds that "sport creates future prospects for young people and gives them the hope of a better future. People who live here have a hard life. Violence has a psychological effect and football helps to develop discipline, improve attitudes and promote healthy habits".
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YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...
A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"
The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life.
What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.
Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.
Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)
LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.
Have a beautiful Week !
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